Qatar
Primary Health Care Corporation serves 27,841 patients during Eid al-Fitr holiday
The Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) has received a total of 27,841 patients, both citizens and residents, across its 21 operational health centres during the Eid al-Fitr holiday from March 17 to March 23.
This comprised all patients seen at Family Medicine clinics, totalling 12,402, as well as 1,381 patients treated at General Dental clinics.
It also included all cases managed by "Urgent Care Units” across 14 health centres: Al Mashaf, Al Sadd, Abu Baker Al Siddiq, Al Ruwais, Al Sheehaniya, Al Kaaban, Gharrafat Al Rayyan, Rawdat Al Khail, Muaither, Umm Slal, Leabaib, Al Karaana, Al Wajba, and Al Thumama. A total of 11,617 cases were handled based on their medical urgency at these health centres. PHCC reported that several specialty services were provided during the Eid al-Fitr holiday to meet the needs of all patients, including Ophthalmology, ENT, Dermatology, and Premarital Screening, in addition to the Pharmacy, Radiology, and Laboratory services.
The Ophthalmology clinic received 299 patients, the ENT clinic received 224 patients, and the Dermatology clinic received 234 patients at Leabaib, Rawdat Al Khail, and Al Mashaf health centres. Furthermore, the Premarital Screening clinic served 51 patients at Al Rayyan, Leabaib, and Al Mashaf health centres.
Additionally, the PHCC Community Call Centre provided 1,728 virtual video and telephone medical consultations to patients who contacted the 16000 service line without a prior appointment.
This type of consultation ensures that patients whose cases are triaged as urgent receive the necessary healthcare and are prescribed the medications by a specialist doctor in the shortest possible time.
PHCC highlighted that all operational health centres ensured that every patient was attended to without delay in addressing their needs, noting that meeting patient needs is a top priority and that it is keen to achieve this.