Hamad can be a great hospital that provide extreme good care to the people living in Qatar. But first, someone high up (amir etc) will need to get their hands dirty and have this vision planned, executed and reviewed till all is done and on goes these processed.SET, PLAN, EXECUTE, REVIEW..... As for this article, I can see it makes sense because the process of getting to see a doctor is just ridiculous and from my experience, professional expts like myself and the doctors are brought in to bring in their experience, implicit knowledge and professionalism so that local qataris understand the standard needed and rub off from us hence the high salaries we get. But experience has shown me something that's is quit the opposite of this. For example, my wife is expecting and during her regular check ups, she has to take a number and visit different sections where the avg wait time can be anywhere from 1hr to 4hrs. Thats an appointment....now think back and see if such a process would be acceptable in the countries these expt doctors come from?

We opted for hamad because a lot of threads in this forum had good things to say and after the waiting times started getting longer and more uncomfortable we've switched to al ahli. Costs arm and a leg, but jesus will pay.