DM Healthcare signs first ASTER Hospital in Qatar

Marking the completion of DM Healthcare's Silver Jubilee Celebrations and a decade of excellence service in Qatar, the upcoming ASTER Hospital will offer state-of-the-art facilities, the latest in technology and medical expertise to provide tertiary care services.

The Hospital will cater multi-speciality departments with super-specialty clinics, ensuring availability of renowned doctors.

The Hospital will focus on offering excellence in care delivery with clinical offerings to ensure faster recovery and a minimal length of stay for ultimate patient satisfaction.

To be located near the currently operational Airport, off the D-Ring road in the Doha city, the upcoming ASTER Hospital aims to offer ease of accessibility to all residents in the country, supported with wide satellite networks of well reputed ASTER Medical Centres, ASTER Diagnostic Centres and Pharmacies, in various neighbourhoods in the country.

The ASTER hospital will be a 50 bedded multi speciality hospital providing unparalleled medical care and service. Some of the general specialities that will be offered at the ASTER hospital are Family Medicine, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Paediatrics, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, ENT, Orthopaedics, Dermatology, General Surgery etc., and services like Clinical Psychology, Physiotherapy and Diet & Nutrition etc.

The ASTER hospital will have a fully-fledged diagnostic unit with advanced equipment's and facilities. The diagnostic services in Radiology comprises of MRI Scan, CT Scan and Digital X-Ray and Pax services shall be made available along with full fledged Pathology Services through the advanced laboratory. In addition, the ASTER hospital would also have physical rehabilitation departments and a well facilitated a pharmacy.

Commenting on the ASTER hospital project, Dr Azad Moopen, Chairman and Managing Director of DM Healthcare said, "Our vertical ASTER has grown over the last 25 years immensely across GCC and India as ASTER as a key brand driver. We are wide-spread both in terms of reach as well services offerings and are pleased to take the expansion of our brand further with the venture of our first hospital project in Qatar to meet our brand promise 'Care Beyond Boundaries'. We are committed to deliver quality Healthcare affordable to the people through our wider networks across the region and thus become the market leader as per our vision 2015 and further 2025."

"Al Estiana Real Estate Development W.L.L will be handling the construction and the commissioning of hospital project, which is a consortium for developing Hospitals and Schools for the development of Qatar, formed between M/s. Al Khater Business Centre W.L.L, M/s. Al Umra Real Estate and M/s. Al Magd Development. The hospital project is slated to be completed and operational by the first quarter of 2015," he added.

On occasion of the signing the contracts of the ASTER Hospital project, Mr. Hamad Mubarak Al Khater, Chairman of M/s. Al Khater Business Centre W.L.L and the Director of M/s. Al Estiana, commented, "We are proud to join hands with the leading healthcare conglomerates in the region M/s. DM Healthcare, headed by Dr. Azad Moopen, for accepting our proposal in developing a multi-speciality ASTER Hospital in our country for the benefits of our people, meeting the developmental process as per vision 2030. We acknowledge the key role played by Dr. Sameer Moopan, CEO of DM healthcare's Operations in Qatar, in shaping up this investment with the support of our Directors, especially Mr. Mohamad Meslah and the CEO of Al Khater Mr. Sharafuddin Iqbal."

"The aim of M/s. Al Estiana creation is to support the country and the people with social ethics by developing hospitals, schools and charitable services more than commercial investments. We feel our association with DM Healthcare will be a great success and the best choice in the health care by recognizing DM's position and contributions in the region," Mr. Khater added.

Dr. Sameer Moopan, CEO of DM Healthcare in Qatar, said, "The upcoming ASTER Hospital project offers ideal culmination of our 10 years of local expertise in healthcare services in Qatar. We were fortunate to witness tremendous growth in the country, since our establishment in the country in year 2003 as the first private multi-speciality medical centre under the name Al Rafa Poly Clinic, which was later on renamed as ASTER Medical Centre."

"The measure of ASTER's success lies in the efficacy of its quality service and wide reach. By focusing our efforts on being proficient, we have been able to ensure that every patients experience with us is excellent. By offering highly advanced procedures that are as minimally invasive as possible, we will be able to ensure that patients are able to recover faster and are able to get back to their lives quickly. This is our focus at ASTER, giving our patients world-class services and facilities at affordable prices," added Dr. Sameer.

DM Healthcare expanded their operations network to Qatar in the year 2003 and now operates six medical centres, six pharmacies and two diagnostic centres at various neighbourhoods of the country. The ASTER Medical / Diagnostic Centres and Pharmacies are currently located at residential and business districts including Musherib, C Ring Road, Al Hilal, Al Rayyan, Al Khor and Industrial Area.