DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Mouwasat Medical Services Co 4002.SE , one of Saudi Arabia's largest listed healthcare firms, on Monday blamed a 5.6 percent fall in second-quarter net profit on losses from a recently opened hospital as its earnings missed analyst forecasts.

The company made a net profit of 56.1 million riyals ($14.96 million) in the three months to June 30, down from 59.4 million riyals in the same period a year earlier, it said in a bourse statement.

Four analysts polled by Reuters had on average forecast the company would make a quarterly profit of 60.95 million riyals. ID:nL5N0ZS021

Mouwasat attributed the fall in net profit to losses from the opening of a hospital in Riyadh in November 2014.

Saudi companies issue brief earnings statements early in the reporting period before publishing more detailed results later. ($1 = 3.7501 riyals)

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