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KIMS Bahrain Healthcare (KBH) is celebrating 15 years in the kingdom by expanding its medical offering across the island. Its fourth facility is now open in Muharraq and a new $20m KIMS Bahrain Hospital is due to open in Umm Al Hassam next summer.
As part of the new hospital, the group is also planning on introducing Bahrain’s first private medical rehabilitation facility catering to patients requiring post-acute care, in collaboration with French healthcare provider, Clinea.
Dr Mohammed Sahadulla, founder, chairman and managing director of KIMS Group, said: “People tend to have a misconception about rehabilitation and think it’s mainly physiotherapy. However, that’s a small portion – there is also neuro rehabilitation that helps regain neurocognitive function after paralysis. Sometimes, after surgery or acute care, people’s speech or cognitive functions are affected. Our facility will help retrain these patients and overcome challenges that they may face.
“At the end of the day, we want to improve their quality of life and reduce the burden on the public hospitals in Bahrain. Our ultimate goal is to ensure patients get to the comfort of their home as quickly as possible and have the right options to help them recover their quality of life.”
As for cost, with the anticipated introduction of mandatory healthcare insurance, KIMS hopes to provide the same high-quality care that it has become known for at a lower reasonable cost, by running the hospital much more efficiently.
Part of this efficiency initiative involves going paperless when it comes to medical records, which the KIMS facilities in India have already accomplished.
Dr Mohammed added: “We have mobile apps and patient portals coming. We want patients to be able to come in, have their appointment, with all their latest medical information to their doctor, with as little paper involved as possible. There is also the added benefit that by digitising these records, the patient will always have access to their medical records in a secure and accessible application.”
KIMS, which opened its first facility in Umm Al Hassam in 2004, has seen a revolutionary evolution in healthcare.
He added: “Many aspects have not changed, like the hospitality of the island and the friendliness of its authorities, which is outstanding when compared to the rest of the region. However, when it comes to medical concerns, demand for our services has shifted from communicable disease treatment decreasing down to about 15 per cent, towards treatment of non-communicable disease like diabetes mellitus and cancer which now forms about 85 per cent of the demand for our services.”
As KIMS continues to expand its offering, it also hopes to hire more Bahrainis and train them further locally and internationally, in order to provide the best possible care to as many patients as possible, aiming in the long run to take the load off overburdened public hospitals.
