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History

Almana Group, Ebrahim Almana & Brothers, is the largest National Company in the Easter Province. Over more than fifty years it has grown in stature and reputation through its superlative care and range of services. Believing that the healthcare industry effectively serves the need of the community, Almana Group Provides state of the art technology similar to that in Western Countries.

Driven by the concern to provide healthcare services for the Saudi people, Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla Almana opened the doors of the first hospital in the Eastern Province in 1954.

The beginning was a humbe one. The Group began with modest sized clinics for dental and opthalmic care. Over the years these clinics extended into four large independent ultra modern hospitals with additional Medical Dispensaries in the four major ciities of the Eastern Province, namely, Dammam, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Hofuf.

Presently, the organization has more than 3,000 well trained, experienced and professional personnel. Almana services have extended to operating and managing healthcare contracts in other regions of Saudi Arabia. Ebrahim Almana & Brothers Establishment provides medical equipment and supplies to other national Healthcare Facilities. In short, Almana Group is established among other professional medical organizations Kingdom wide as a Centre of Excelence.

Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla Almana

Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla Almana led a varied and interesting life. Originally from Najd, Central Arabia, he was born in Zubair, Iraq. At the age of ten years, he was taken by his father to India. He spent next twelve years being educated in an English School in Bombay. In 1926, he joined the Court of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud at Riyadh where he was his Majesty's chief Translator and Interpreter. For the next nine years, he and other Court members were the King's constant companions journeying with him into battle, on Pilgrimage to Mecca and on all His Majesty's desert expeditions.

While at Court, Sheikh Almana was responsible for the translating all correspondence from English and Urdu. He was also intrepeter on many diplomatic occasions.

After departing the King's service in 1935, he returned to India for two years. Subsequently, he worked as a translator and contractor for Saudi Aramco. From 1946 he devoted himself to his own business interest particularly to running Almana General Hospital, Al-Khobar.