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Health in Jordan

Care that learns, a medical hub that serves the region.

$986m: forward investment in its own projects
20: projects in this guide
1: in or linked to Aqaba

The sector today

Health in Jordan

Jordan has been the region's hospital for decades. Patients travel from across the Arab world for cardiac surgery, oncology, fertility treatment and transplants, and in 2025 medical tourism earned nearly US$1 billion from about 230,000 foreign patients, according to the Private Hospitals Association.

The system behind that reputation is large. Jordan has 121 hospitals and more than 16,000 beds across public, private, military and university providers. In 2025 the government signed its first hospital built as a public-private partnership, the 260-bed Madaba hospital, and a US$400 million medical city with a university hospital is rising south of Amman.

The next phase is about intelligence. Electronic records, leased and monitored equipment, AI diagnostics and remote care are turning hospitals into connected networks. This guide sets out where the sector stands, the projects in the Jordan PPP project register, and the opportunities it opens as infrastructure moves towards the singularity.

$1bn: Medical tourism revenue in 2025, close to US$1 billion, reported by the Private Hospitals Association.
230,000: Foreign patients treated in Jordan in 2025, up about 4% on the year before.
121: Hospitals across the public, private, military and university sectors, with more than 16,000 beds.
260 beds: Madaba Government Hospital, the first public hospital built in Jordan as a public-private partnership.

The singularity

Health is the purpose of the singularity

The infrastructure singularity is the point where roads, grids, ports and water networks become one connected, intelligent system, built by robotics, run by artificial intelligence and financed by tokenization. Hospitals are where that system meets people, and longer, healthier lives are the clearest return on it.

Artificial intelligence: Reads scans and laboratory results, predicts admissions and flags patients at risk, so specialists spend their time where it matters. AI also plans shifts, beds and supplies across a whole network of hospitals.
Robotics: Surgical robots, automated pharmacies and laboratory lines raise precision and capacity, while hospital logistics robots move medicines, samples and linen day and night.
Tokenization: Hospitals and equipment fleets earn steady availability payments for decades. Tokenized stakes let Jordanian savers and investors abroad own part of a hospital and share in each payment.
Data: One electronic record for every patient, held securely and shared with consent, turns each treatment into evidence that improves the next one.
Longevity: Prevention, genomics and continuous monitoring shift spending from treating illness late to keeping people well, the largest saving any health system can make.

Flagship projects

The projects that lead the sector

Under way · South of Amman
Kingdom University Hospital
A US$400 million medical city on a build-operate-transfer basis, backed by the Saudi Jordanian Investment Company, owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. It combines a 330-bed university hospital, 72 outpatient clinics and a children's hospital with a medical university for 600 students, with UCL Medical School and UCLA Health as partners.
Under way · Ma'in, Madaba
Madaba Government Hospital
Jordan's first public hospital built as a PPP. Under a build-lease-transfer deal signed in July 2025, KBW Investments builds the 260-bed hospital, expandable to 360, the Ministry of Health equips and runs it, and the government pays over ten years after completion, expected around 2028.
Pipeline · Jabal Amman
The Medical Neighborhood
A medical tourism complex near Amman's hospital district with 200 inpatient beds, outpatient clinics, a research center and hotel rooms. Amman Vision prepares the land and infrastructure, and an investor finances, builds and operates the complex, valued at about US$80 million.
Pipeline · Aqaba
Aqaba Medical Complex
A medical city offered to investors by the Aqaba Development Corporation, combining a 100-bed public hospital, a 50-bed private hospital, staff housing, a helipad and a 100-room hotel. It is designed to serve Aqaba's growing population and to attract patients by sea and air.
Pipeline · 12 public hospitals
Medical Equipment Leasing
A Ministry of Health program to lease medical equipment to 12 government hospitals, from Al-Basheer in Amman to Queen Rania in Ma'an. Private partners supply, operate and maintain the equipment and are paid for performance, while the ministry keeps ownership.
Under way · Nationwide
RMS Digital Transformation
The digital upgrade of Royal Medical Services hospitals, health centres and warehouses, covering planning systems, supply chains, laboratories and radiology. It was signed alongside the Madaba hospital in July 2025, with Saudi Arabia's Elm as technology partner.

Every project

20 projects in Jordan’s pipeline

Values in US dollars; * estimated where no figure has been published. Rows in grey sit in another sector and connect to this one.

Project	Location	Stage	Value
Kingdom University Hospital (Kingdom Health Project)	Airport Road, Ghamadan area	Under way	$400m
Zarqa Military Hospital (400 beds)	Zarqa	Pipeline	$144m
Madaba Government Hospital ("Al Mahaba")	Ma'in area, Madaba	Under way	$124m
Aqaba Medical Complex	Aqaba	Pipeline	$106m
Medical Center, The Medical Neighborhood	Jabal Amman	Pipeline	$80m*
Medical Equipment (Leasing)	12 Ministry of Health hospitals: Al-Bash	Pipeline	$40m*
Royal Medical Services (RMS) Digital Transformation	Nationwide RMS facilities	Under way	$40m*
Jah Medical Center (Al-Yasmeen, Amman)	Al-Yasmeen area, Amman	Pipeline	$21m
Prince Faisal Hospital New Building (Ruseifa)	Russeifa, Zarqa Governorate	Under way	$13m
North Karak Ambulance & Emergency Facility	Northern Karak	Pipeline	$13m
Karak Hospital Outpatient Clinics	Karak Government Hospital	Under way	$5.6m
King Hussein Business Park - Phase 2	King Hussein Business Park	Under way	$150m*
Miras Mixed-Use Project (Zarqa East City)	King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz City	Under way	$100m
Neonatal Incubator Manufacturing Plant	Industrial development zone in Jordan	Open opportunity	$29m*
Biosimilar Fill-Finish Manufacturing Plant	JIEC industrial zone	Open opportunity	$29m*
Oncology API Manufacturing Plant	Development zone in Jordan	Open opportunity	$29m*
Ajloun Wellness Resort - Al-Jubb Area	Al-Jubb area opposite Ajloun Castle, Ajl	Pipeline	$27m
Pharmaceutical Track-and-Trace System	Nationwide	Pipeline	$10m*
Afra Hot Springs Therapeutic Resort	Afra Hot Springs	Open opportunity	$10m*
Wadi Bin Hammad Hot Springs Resort	Wadi Bin Hammad hot springs	Open opportunity	$10m*

AI, robotics and tokenization

What changes for Jordan's health sector

Artificial intelligence

AI can read the scans, slides and laboratory results that Jordan's hospitals produce every day, triage patients in emergency departments and flag those at risk before they deteriorate. In a health PPP it also forecasts demand, schedules beds, theatres and staff, and predicts equipment failures, so a private partner can meet the performance standards it is paid for and price each bid on real data.

What can be built

Imaging network. AI reading of X-rays, CT and MRI scans across governorate hospitals, with radiologists in Amman checking and signing each report.
Emergency triage. Tools that prioritise patients in emergency departments and ambulances, linked to the national electronic health record.
Hospital operations. Forecasting of admissions, beds, theatres and stock for the PPP hospitals in Madaba and south of Amman.
Equipment uptime. Sensors and AI that predict failures in leased scanners and theatre equipment, the basis of pay-for-performance contracts.

Robotics

Robots already assist surgeons, dispense medicines and run laboratory lines in leading hospitals worldwide. In Jordan they can raise the capacity of a new hospital without raising its staff in step, move medicines and samples through corridors day and night, and disinfect rooms between patients. Modular and robotic construction can also bring clinics and emergency centres into service within months in the governorates.

What can be built

Pharmacy automation. Robotic dispensing in public hospital pharmacies, cutting errors and freeing pharmacists to spend more time with patients.
Laboratory lines. Automated laboratories that process samples for several hospitals from one regional hub, with results returned to the shared record.
Hospital logistics. Robots that carry medicines, samples, meals and linen through hospitals, and disinfect rooms with ultraviolet light.
Modular clinics. Factory-built clinics and emergency units installed in weeks in towns that lack them, then connected to the nearest hospital.

Tokenization

A health PPP earns availability payments from government for ten years or more, the steady cash flow a token represents well. The Madaba hospital, paid in installments over ten years after completion, shows the model. Tokenized stakes in hospitals and equipment fleets would let Jordanian savers, the diaspora and regional investors own part of the care they rely on and receive their share of each payment.

What can be built

Hospital stakes. Tokenized shares in PPP hospitals, paying holders from the government's availability payments as each installment arrives.
Equipment fleets. Tokens backed by leased scanners and theatre equipment, paid from performance-based lease income across public hospitals.
Medical tourism assets. Fractional ownership of medical hotels and specialist centres that serve patients travelling to Jordan from abroad.
Health outcome bonds. Tokens that pay out when verified results, such as fewer readmissions or faster emergency care, are reached.

Small PPPs and unsolicited proposals

Small PPPs and research labs

Small PPPs below about US$14.1 million suit health, where many needs are local. A health lab, led by the Ministry of Health with private partners, could run $100,000 pilots such as AI reading of chest X-rays in two governorate hospitals, a robotic pharmacy in one hospital, or remote monitoring for 500 heart patients after discharge, and publish the results before each model is scaled.

How it works

Unsolicited proposals under Article 15

A company that sees a gap in care can design the answer itself and submit it under Article 15. Ideas include a regional imaging and dialysis network for the south, an emergency and ambulance network for Karak and Tafilah, a maintenance concession for medical equipment in public hospitals, a national telemedicine service for remote towns, and a medical tourism center in Aqaba.

How it works

New industries

What the sector can create

01AI diagnosticsJordanian companies that read scans, slides and laboratory results with AI for hospitals across the region, with specialists checking every result.
02Remote careTelemedicine and home monitoring that follow patients after they return home, keeping Jordan's doctors in charge of care across borders.
03Medical equipment servicesLeasing, maintaining and refurbishing scanners and theatre equipment under performance contracts for public and private hospitals.
04Medical devicesLocal manufacture of devices such as neonatal incubators, consumables and implants, building on the pharmaceutical industry and free zones.
05Health data and researchClinical trials and research built on secure, consented records, giving global researchers access to the region's patient populations.
06Robotic hospital logisticsAutomated pharmacies, laboratories and delivery robots designed, installed and serviced by Jordanian engineers for the region.

Opportunities

Where partners come in

Hospital PPPs: Bid for or propose new hospitals and expansions on build-lease-transfer and build-operate-transfer models, following Madaba and the medical city south of Amman.
Direct proposals: Propose a project under Article 15 of PPP Law No. 19 of 2023, such as an emergency network, a dialysis program or a diagnostic center.
Small-scale PPPs: Regulation No. 9 of 2024 allows small-scale PPPs below about US$14.1 million, which suits clinics, equipment fleets and digital health tools.
Equipment and services: Supply, operate and maintain medical equipment under pay-for-performance contracts in Ministry of Health hospitals.
Medical tourism: Develop medical complexes and hotels in Amman and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone, with incentives under the Investment Environment Law.
Investment and ownership: Finance hospitals through infrastructure funds, development banks and tokenized stakes that open ownership to more investors.

Stained-glass illustration in blue glass of a city of towers under a rising arch

The road to the singularity

2026Madaba hospital rises as the first PPP hospital; equipment leasing and new emergency centres move forward.
2030The medical city south of Amman is open and teaching; every public hospital shares one electronic record.
2035AI reads most scans first; remote care follows patients at home; Aqaba hosts a medical tourism cluster.
2040Robots run pharmacies, laboratories and hospital logistics; Jordanian AI diagnostics serve the region.
2050Prevention and continuous monitoring keep people well, and Jordan exports care, research and health software.

Jordan's doctors made it the region's hospital. The projects in this guide are the first steps towards a connected health network that learns from every patient and serves the region at the speed of software.

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Guides for organizations

Launch a PPP program of your own

The guides closest to Jordan's health sector, each showing one kind of organization how to launch a PPP program, with six first steps.

Operators and services
Hospital Groups
Your group launches a PPP program to build, equip and run public hospitals, clinics and medical centers, manage their clinical and non-clinical services and grow medical tourism.
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Operators and services
Primary Care and Diagnostics Providers
Your organization launches a PPP program to build, equip and run health centers, laboratories, imaging units and screening services.
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Operators and services
Elderly and Disability Care Providers
Your organization launches a PPP program to build and run care homes, day centers, home care services, assistive technology programs and accessible public facilities for older people and persons with disabilities.
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Economic sectors
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Companies
Your company launches a PPP program to supply, track and make medicines, medical equipment and diagnostics for the public health sector as public-private partnerships (PPPs).
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