Milandhoo Hospital

Public project

Planned
Under construction
Open

Started: 15 Oct 2025
Expected: About November 2026 (600-day contract from March 2025)

MTCC, MVR 110.88m, 600 days. An earlier Kuwait Fund hospital contract (Anand Buildtech, 2023) stopped; see Kuwait Fund 30-Bed Hospital.

About

A new 30-bed hospital for Milandhoo, being built by MTCC for the Ministry of Health. The main building is two storeys on a site of about 38,000 sq ft, with a one-storey services block and a two-storey staff block. It was awarded to MTCC in March 2025 and work started on 15 October 2025. An earlier hospital financed by the Kuwait Fund, contracted in 2023, stopped and has its own listing.

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Key facts

Beds: 30¹
Hospital level: Level 1 (30-bed hospital)²
Original financing: Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Strengthening of Health Sector Project (seven 30-bed hospitals)³
Planned services (2019 plan): Gynaecology, paediatrics, internal medicine, anaesthesiology, dentistry, physiotherapy, dialysis and surgery⁴

Timeline

Island timeline

Now
2025
15 October 2025· A year ago

Groundbreaking with President Muizzu

Finance Minister Moosa Zameer launched the works during the President's visit. The plan is a two-storey, 30-bed main building, a one-storey services building and a two-storey staff building.
psmnews.mv
10 September 2025

Site clearing and fencing under way

MTCC reported that site clearing and boundary fence installation were under way at the site.
x.com
28 March 2025

Re-awarded to MTCC

The Health Ministry awarded the new hospital building to MTCC for MVR 110,878,732 with a 600-day completion period.
raajje.mv
2021
7 September 2021

Mini-hospital pledged by President Solih

President Solih told the Shaviyani Atoll Council that the government had decided to build a mini-hospital in Milandhoo.
see.mv
31 March 2021

Hospital tender promised

President Solih said a project to turn the island's health centre into a hospital would be tendered in April.
raajje.mv
7 January 2021

2020 tender cancelled

At the Health Ministry's request, the Finance Ministry cancelled the bidding, along with the bids received, together with 13 other hospital and health centre tenders financed the same way.
finance.gov.mv
2020
10 September 2020

Tendered under contractor finance

The Finance Ministry invited international bids for a new health centre building in Milandhoo (TES/2020/W-062), to be financed by the contractor, with a MVR 1.3m bid security. On 26 October the invitation was revised and the deadline moved to 25 November 2020.
finance.gov.mv
2019
11 July 2019

Hospital upgrade announced

Health Minister Abdulla Ameen said the health centre would get a new building and become a Class 1 hospital, with services such as gynaecology, paediatrics, surgery, a four-bed dialysis unit, ICU and NICU, and 35 beds in 5 wards.
psmnews.mv