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.