HMC Paediatric Emergency Centre at Al Sadd to be expanded

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is  expanding the Al Sadd Paediatric Emergency Centre to meet the growing demand of the residents, local Arabic daily Al Sharq reported yesterday. A new building will be added to the current building, which will house  five new clinics, five rooms for the classification of patients and biometrics, besides 13 beds for in-patients. Dr Hani Khalafala, consultant  paediatrician, told the daily that such expansions were part of the HMC plan to accommodate  the increasing number of patients. “Al Sadd Centre has now 45 beds and the number of beds will be increased to 58 with the opening of the new building, making it sufficient by world standards for such an emergency department.” He also added that the number of medical staff has been increased considerably throughout all paediatric emergency centers in the country. The paediatric emergency centres receive around 2,500-3,000 patients a day. Last year, such centres received 557,591 cases , out of which  21,922 were referred to observation rooms for further treatment.