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Tribune News Network
Doha
HAMAD Medical Corporation's (HMC) Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) and Women's Wellness and Research Center (WWRC) welcomed the first patients to their outpatient clinics ” a uro-gynaecology clinic at WWRC and a podiatry clinic at ACC ahead of the official opening of three new hospitals at Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City later this year.
Additional clinic and surgical services will be operational later this year in different phases at both the facilities. These new facilities join the Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI) which welcomed its first patients last year.
The uro-gynecology clinic is the first Women's Hospital facility to relocate to the WWRC and will be followed by its oncology and colposcopy clinics. The WWRC is designed to provide women in Qatar with specialised care through all stages of their lives. Once fully operational, it will offer a range of surgical and clinical services from preconception to childbirth, post-natal care and beyond.
The 72,000 sqm facility, which will replace Women's Hospital as the largest tertiary hospital in the region, will be staffed by over 2,000 trained clinicians specialising in gynaecology, obstetrics, and newborn care. It will offer 240 private inpatient rooms, a larger emergency room, seven operating theatres, 26 delivery rooms and 112 cots in the neonatal intensive care unit.
The ACC, the other new Medical City hospital to welcome its first outpatients, will also gradually introduce clinical and surgical services.
Podiatry services will be followed by audiology, ENT and gastroenterology outpatient clinics and a pre-admission anesthesia clinic and surgical services.
When fully operational, the ACC will offer patients an exciting new approach to surgical and clinical care in Qatar, providing day care surgery, some inpatient surgical care and clinical care in a single dedicated location.
The new facility will offer advanced clinical and surgical practices in the most technologically advanced operating theatres and treatment rooms. Patients will be supported on their journey to recovery by the ACC's outpatient clinics.
Hamad Al Khalifa, HMC's Chief of Healthcare Facilities, said:"Last year HMC welcomed the first outpatients to the QRI and we are proud to do the same at both ACC and WWRC."
