Ruwais Housing Complex
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Ruwais Housing Complex (RHC) — which has its own shopping centers, schools, mosques, medical services, sports and recreation centers, banking and postal services, and even a cable TV and video station — covers an area of six square kilometers. It lies between Ruwais Industrial Complex and Jebel Dhana, just off the main highway running westwards into Saudi Arabia. RHC was built in two phases between 1979 and 1984, and in line with ADNOC's policy of ensuring that employees and their families have the very best of social and welfare facilities, all efforts have been made to make it a fully integrated community. The complex has 1,357 residential units, ranging from one-bedroom apartments to four-bedroom, double-story 'executive' villas. All have modern furnishing and fittings and are pleasantly set amidst landscaped grounds. A large area of RHC has been planted with a variety of trees, shrubs, flower beds and lawns. It has a number of recreation parks and a green belt around the perimeter covers 140 hectares and is planted with more than 22,000 trees. To ensure a regular supply of plants all year round, the complex has its own nursery to propagate seeding. |
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Tills is a veritable gardener's paradise, with up to 250,000 plants in stock. Although families who live in RHC are some 250 kilometers away from Abu Dhabi, a wide range of consumer goods is available. The complex has three commercial centers with more than 40 shops and two supermarkets selling everything from foodstuffs to electrical goods, household items and fashion-wear. The educational needs of Ruwais children, from nursery through to secondary level, are met by a total of 10 schools. Seven are managed by the Ministry of Education and three are privately owned, offering British or Indian systems. The schools, private and government, are equipped with modern classrooms and other facilities, such as science laboratories and libraries. RHC has two recreation centers, one exclusively for women. The other is open to all and facilities include a swimming pool, gymnasium, theatre, bowling alley, general activity halls, tennis courts, library, restaurants and cafeterias. Cultural events, often involving troupes and performers from overseas, are staged regularly at the recreation centers. For days at the seaside, residents have access to a beach dub at Jebel Dhanna, which in addition to water sports facilities has a TV and Games hall. RHC residents can always be sure of something interesting to watch on their television sets, thanks to a local TV and video station which operates on a cable network. The complex has all the ancillary services required of a modern town, including a well-maintained road network, street lighting in all areas, and a sewage system which includes a treatment plant for recycling sewage water for irrigation purposes. Electricity and desalinated water supplies are provided directly from the refinery.
RHC
Hospital & Clinic
RHC families receive the very best of medical care. thanks
to a purpose-built local clinic and a modern general
hospital situated near the industrial area, 10 kilometers
away. The clinic and the hospital are administered by the
Medical Services Division of the Administration Directorate.
Ruwais Hospital is a 36-bed acute-care facility providing
the full range of general and emergency medical services,
including cardiology, maternity, pediatrics, dentistry and
ophthalmology, on both an out-patient and in-patient basis.
The emergency department, staffed by highly skilled medical
officers and well-trained nurses, is open 24 hours a day and
operates a round-the-clock ambulance service, not only for
ADNOC employees and their families but the whole of the
immediate neighborhood. Ambulance crews are on hand, for
example, to attend LO road accidents along the highway
between Tarif and Sila. The RHC Clinic, which is open six
days a week and is fully integrated with Ruwais Hospital,
provides a comprehensive health-care programmed to all
residents of the housing complex. It offers a wide range of
general practitioner and specialist services, including
nursing and child welfare, immunization and vaccination,
school health, dental and physiotherapy services. Ruwais
Housing Complex is managed by Ruwais Housing Division, part
of the ADNOC Administration Directorate.
