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History of Al-Ahli Hospital |
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Vision and Mission |
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Board of Directors |
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Message From CEO |
Initially conceptualized by ten Qatari businessmen in1989, Al-Ahli Hospital was sketched as a 100-bed profit-based hospital to specialize in Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology. After a year of project envisage, this motivated private group of shareholders approached his highness the Emir Sheikh khalifa Bin Hamad Al-Thani for his assistance; and in 1990 several hectares of land located in Ahmed Bin Ali street (its present location) was awarded to them by the government of Qatar conditional to building a new healthcare facility.
On the 17th of December 1995, an official Emir Decree was issued from the office of his highness the Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin khalifa Al-Thaniannouncing Al-Ahli Hospital Company (now called Medicare group Q.S.C) as a public shareholding company.
Strengthened by the support of His Highness the Emir, this healthcare project attracted other private individuals to participate as shareholders. The original ten initiators grew to about one hundred founding members, and a foundingcommittee was elected in 1996 with the Chairmanship of Mr. Abdul Rahman Eisa Al-Manaai.
The founding committee revisited the project plan and finally decided to build a 250-bed private general hospital that would provide five-star healthcare services in a relaxing environment, a hospital that would make you feel like you are in a luxurious hotel.
With the election of the new Board of directors (Chairmanship of Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Al-Thani) in 2001, the syndicated loan which the Board obtained from the banks to build Al-Ahli Hospital was converted to an Islamic financing facility in order to make it Sharia'a compliant and be in accordance with the Article of Association for the company. The company then went ahead and repaid the total amount of the loan from new rights issue and Al-Ahli became debt-free for the first time and fully owned by its investors in the year 2006. The Hospital was finally finished on 1st of January 2004 and officially opened its services to the public in November, 2004.
The current managing director and Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Group and Al-Ahli Hospital, Mr. Abdulwahed Al-Mawlawi, was elected by the Board of Directors on the 2nd of April 2006. With his vast experience in senior management and healthcare, Mr.Al-Mawlawi introduced the concept of Love as the ultimate value of Al-Ahli Hospital.
VISION
Our vision is to create Al-Ahli Hospital as a holistic embodiment of Love.
MISSION
To assiduously manifest "Love" in the provision of Al-Ahli Hospital's rendered services to the public at large with adherence to the highest pinnacle values of excellence, integrity, honesty and transparency.This is in conjunction with adherence to the highest international standards for the provision of health and medical services, and with the assurance of the provision in a manner deserved by all human begins as carriers of the seeds of God.
The bedrock of Al-Ahli Hospital's mission is to be solidly grounded in the World Health Organization's definition of health: a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It is a source of everyday life, not the objective of living. It is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.
Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Al-Thani (Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Executive Committee)
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Thani Bin Abdulla Al-Thani (Deputy Chairman of the Board)
Sheikh Khalid Bin Thani Bin Abdulla Al-Thani (Member of the Board)
Sheikh Mohammed Thani Bin Abdulla Al-Thani (Member of the Board)
Mr. Abdulwahed Abdullah Al-Mawlawi (MD & CEO, Member of the Executive Committee)
Mr. Jamal Abdullah Al-Jamal (Member of the Board)
Engr. Nasser Mohammad Ali Al-Mansouri (Member of the Board, Member of the Executive Committee)
Dr. Abdulaziz Jasim Al-Gufairi (Member of the Board, Member of the Executive Committee)
Mr. Waleed Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Saadi (Member of the board)
Parting in Love
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is love-all encompassing Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the "love which moves the sun and the stars", he was not using a metaphor; he was describing the nature of reality.Love has been recognized in the teaching engraved on the Sphinx:"Love is the Secret of Life'; and again at the doorway of the great rock near Deir, Petraea:"The Touch of Life is fed by the oil of love." Victor Hugo's parting advice to his grandson was:"Love, seek for love-love makes better man. You must love, my son, love well-all your life."
If you want magic to come into your life, just throw away your old attitudes and beliefs. Throw them overboard at once. Love is an all-important law of human miracles. See no different between ant and angel. Look at the ocean and not the wave. We are all part of the same.
This spirit of all-embracing love is the outcome of the understanding that all living and non-living things, from man down to earthworm and stones, are subject to the same laws and conditions of existence. There is in 'Being' an infinite desire to give itself in love and this gift of self in love is forever answered by a return of love. Love giving itself, losing itself and finding itself in love, and love returning to itself, giving itself back in love-this is the eternal pattern of the universe.
This is the coming of every creature into being, this response to drawing of love. At the same time it is being continually drawn to give itself in love, to surrender to the attraction of love, and so the rhythm of the universe (one melody) is created. The electrons, as they circle around the nucleus of an atom, are all held by the attraction of love. The sun and its circling planets are held by the same attraction. It is the same with sexual love. The male is drawn to give himself in love to the female, and the female is drawn to give herself back in love the male. There is a continual dance of love, a continual going and returning. Ultimately it is the one Love giving itself continually so as to create this form and that form, building up the universe of stars and atoms and living cells and then drawing everything back to itself; everything coming into being in the Divine.
What is love?
TIt is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and all existence into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source; out of that separation the desire to fall back into the whole, to become one with it. If you pull a tree out of its soil, if you uproot it, then the tree will feel a great desire to be rooted back into the soil, because that was its real life. Now it is dying. Separate, the tree cannot exist. It has to exist in the earth, with the earth, through the earth. That's what love is.Your ego has become the barrier between you and your earth-the whole. Man is suffocated, he cannot breathe, and he has lost his roots. He is no longer nourished. Love is a desire for nourishment; Love is getting roots in existence.
Now this has to be understood: you can be rooted in the whole only if you melt yourself in the whole. Love then becomes your royal path to Enlightenment (Nirvana). Beyond our physical and mental being, we have to discover our spiritual being, our eternal ground, and there the mystery of love is fulfilled. Love's main ingredient is giving. Give up yourself with sincerity and deep feeling, Gurdjiff used to say, "All that I gave is still with me, and all that I hoarded is lost, and all I gave is mine." True, you have only what you have shared. Love is not a property to be hoarded; it is radiance, a fragrance to be shared. Whatever beautiful is with you, never hoard it. Share your wisdom, your prayer, share, your love, your happiness, your delight. Yes, if you cannot find anybody, share it with animals or plants or rocks but share.
People give very reluctantly; if ever they give, they give only to get. It is a business. Love is not a business. Existence knows nothing of business. Tree bloom, it is not a business; the stars shine, it is not a business and you don't have to pay for it, and nobody demands anything from you. A bird comes and sits at your door and sings a song, a rose gives its fragrance to you without any desire for any in return. The whole universe simply shares. So let your love be your state of fragrance of being. Even if you touch a stone, your hand is showering love-it does not matter to whom. The loving state is unaddressed.
This is so-called that prosaic love is dull, but it is no longer when you are in love with life. You are a spirit on a sparkling star. The commonplace becomes beautiful, and the beautiful a thousand times lovelier. We should overflow with love, embracing the low and the high, the ugly and the beautiful, the sinful and virtuous alike, and unless you perfect yourself and attain this right attitude, all attempts are lacking or fruitless.
Love is a very fragile flower. It has to be protected, strengthened and watered; only then it becomes strong. Love grows only in love.
Man's heart is a musical instrument. It is asleep but it is here, waiting for the right moment to struck, to be expressed, to be sung, to be danced. And it is through love that the moment arrives. A person without love will never know what music he/she has been carrying within his/her heart. It is only through that, that music starts becoming alive, awakened, from potential starts becoming an actuality.
Love triggers the process, love is the catalytic agent. And if love does not trigger the process of your inner music, it is not love. The criteria by which to know is: if your inner music starts flowing then there is love. Suddenly you feel yourself in deep harmony. You are no more a discord, you become an accord. You are no more a chaos, you become a cosmos, and life starts taking on a new quality, the quality of jubilation, the quality of hallelujah!
This is Abdulwahed Al-Mawlawi's last column. He is unable to continue due to personal reasons. Gulf news: Friday magazine: Sep 26-Oct 2, 1997
Abdulwahed Al-Mawlawi
Managing Director & CEO