"Green Hospital" in Kuwait by KABME & KHI

Kuwait Association for Biomedical Engineers' (KABME) & the Kuwait Heath Initiative (http://www.q8health.org/) proudly organized a training course entitled "The Green Hospital" on 30th Oct -1st Nov 2009. The course was presented by Cannon Design, designed & architected many Healthcare facilities such as King Faisal Specialist reserach Center in Riyadh and Brigham Women's Hospital in Boston, USA. Attendants of the course were from my institutes in and outside of Kuwait. 

The course openning started at 9:10 AM with a speech by Ali Shehab president of KABME and another one by Dr. Manal Bohaimed from KHI. Another speech was addressed by Dr. Masomma Al-Mubarak Current MP and former Minister of Health in Kuwait. 

On First day, Presenters gave an overview about the concept of the "Green Hospital" and main design elements of a Green Hospital. 

The second day was about coverting a non-Green Hospital to become Green using the availabe resources of energy, cost, stake holders priorities and enviroment. Two case studies of King Faisal Specilaist and Brigham Women's Hospital were discussed at the end to view the benefits of Green Hospital.

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