Sunday, March 11, 2007

Normeca: Project Southern Sudan

Normeca AS , the Norwegian company specializing in mobile hospitals is embarking on a major health project that will dwarf anything that had ever been done in South Sudan.

Normeca AS signed its largest contract ever with the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), Ministry of health, to dramatically improve the health care situation for the people of Southern Sudan. The contracts were signed by the Minister of Health in the presence of the President’s Advisor, State Secretaries from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development. The Signing Ceremony was covered by leading media in Southern Sudan; TV, radio and the largest newspapers.


Under the contracts, Normeca AS shall build 10 semi-permanent state hospitals in Southern Sudan each with 80 to 150 beds and accommodation for approximately 150 people. Each hospital will have 5 mobile clinics, a total of 50. In addition, Normeca AS will provide 2 floating hospitals for the river Nile.


In addition, Normeca AS signed a 5 year management and operations agreement covering all hospitals and clinics. Consequently, Normeca AS is in need of a considerable number of new employees in Southern Sudan over the next years.



Great ambition. I wish them great success. I hope they succeed. I want them to succeed for the sake of the people dying everyday from preventable conditions. But could anyone tell me how much it is costing South Sudan?

13 comments:

Aaron Stewart said...

Yeah it's good in theory but I agree with your question, just how much is GoSS shelling out for this? I was a bit put off as I went to the website and saw the word 'products', I guess I'm naive and thought they were an NGO with deep pockets or something. It would be good to know where this funding is coming from, I for one would love to see this get off the ground.

Black Kush said...

What I know for sure is they are not a charity but work for the money. I attended the launching of the Normeca Sudan in Khartoum last year. There are lots of big fish from South Sudan backing these guys, which explains how they got the contract.

But no one is mentioning a fee...

Aaron Stewart said...

Maybe they're donating their services out of the kindness of their hearts. Ha!

Black Kush said...

That is a long shot, pal. Check out my new post above about the Normeca guy arrested for corruption!

Anonymous said...

The first hospital has now been running for close to 4 months in Kapoeta. The hospital has already treated more than 12.000 patients and saved many lives.
Normeca has transported by road from Mombassa more than 4.000 tons of equipment to the first hospital. The hospital in Kapoeta is now one of the best equipped hospital in Central Africa. You can find much more information and pictures on www.normeca.com

Anonymous said...

Normeca AS is a Norwegian company working in the field of mobile and semi permanente hospitals, mobile clinics, floating hospital, disasters and hospital management. Normeca AS has several offices in Middle East and Africa like Dubai, Addis, Nairobi, Kapoeta, Juba and Khartoum plus offices in Tokyo, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Oslo (HQ) and Seattle.

Last year Normeca AS signed a contract with GOSS to build 10 State hospitals including accommodation for the medical staff, all together 2.500 beds, delivery of 50 mobile clinics and two floating hospitals on the river Nile. It was at same time signed a management contract to run all the hospitals and clinics for 5 years.

The first 150 beds hospital in Kapoeta has already treaded more than 12.000 patients. Many lives have been saved. The official opening of the hospital is expected to take place very soon.

And the hospital is approved by a technical committee from Ministry of Health in Juba as a referral hospital on level one.

Normeca AS has brought in more than 4.000 tons of equipment by road from Mombassa, a distance of 1.600 km one way to this first hospital. The ground of the site is 90.000 m2 with close to 8.000 m2 with different buildings. Normeca AS has also build a new road on 3 km from the main road to the hospital site. The hospital is one of the best equipped hospitals in Central Africa, please see the attachment. Especially the six operating theatres, ICU, Post OP, x-ray, laboratory, sterilization, delivery room and emergency room are very well equipped. As an example can be mention our x-ray department has fixed digital x-ray equipment, one mobile x-ray, C-bow in the operating theatre and three Ultrasound machines.

The price of this first hospital with 150 beds (can easily bee raised up to 200 beds) and 160 beds accommodation for hospital staff including transport, construction, all equipment both medical and all other necessary equipment to run the hospital is only EURO 18 million including five mobile clinics. These include also electronic patient journal system, computers, printers, identification card system and a server with 400 G memory.

The price for the complete hospital is actually very cost and time effective compare to build a hospital in concrete and steel. Normeca AS expect a life time on at least 30 to 50 years for this kind of prefabricated buildings. And the best of all, then the time is coming for a fixed hospital in steel and concrete, the hospital can be repacked and eject in ten smaller clinics/health centres around the State within short time.

The separate management contract to run the hospital has a budget on approximately EURO 4 - 500.000 pr. months all included like salaries, food, fuel, medical disposables and management like head doctor, head nurse, hospital director and trainers from Scandinavia. Normeca AS has to run the procurement after same rules as the Norwegian Government. The salaries for all staff have to follow the rules from GOSS. The hospital is working in close cooperation with WFP (delivery of all food to the patients) and the Carter Foundation.

It is not correct that some newspaper has been written that Normeca AS should have received more that USD 900 million in up front payment. All contracts together including the budget of running the all hospitals, clinics and floating hospitals for five years including salaries for up to 2.500 hospital staff, medicines, diesel/fuel, maintenance, medical disposables and all other things are even not so much. Normeca AS has so fare only received EURO 22 million in mobilisation payment from GOSS.

Normeca AS has also used up to 80 % of all workers during the construction from Kapoeta and Southern Sudan. It means more than 300 local workers have been working at the site every day for many months. Many of them have been trained as carpenters, maintenance, electric, plumbers and so on during this period. The rest of the workers have been brought in from 15 different countries around the world.

If you want more information, please visit our web page: www.normeca.com or feel free to contact us any time.

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