Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital (HMGH) has successfully performed 10,000 surgeries in two years in several specialties, including urology, orthopaedics and plastic surgery.
The hospital recently celebrated this achievement in the presence of HMC’s acting assistant managing director Ali al-Janahi, chief medical officer and chairman of surgery Dr Abdulla al-Ansari, HMGH CEO Hussein Ishaq, CEO of HMGH and medical director Dr Ahmad al-Mohammed as well as a number of surgeons, physicians and staff members.
Dr al-Ansari explained that performing 10,000 surgeries at HMGH within 24 months is a remarkable achievement and an important milestone in the hospital’s successful journey of development and improvement.
Dr Morshed Ali Salah, senior consultant, Surgery and Head of the Surgery and Urology Departments at HMGH, explained that 50% of the 10,0000 surgeries were performed in the Urgent Surgery section, while urological surgeries constituted 25% of the total number of surgeries and orthopaedic and plastic surgeries constituted the remaining 25%. The surgeries were performed on patients aged between 18 and 80 years.
HMGH's six operating rooms run at 85% capacity and are staffed with a team of 35 surgeons who perform around 600 surgeries every month. The average waiting time for non-urgent surgeries does not exceed two weeks. Dr Salah explained that urological surgeries include removal of kidney stones and urinary tract stones using endoscopes, high-precision lasers, and surgical robots.
The hospital offers highly advanced lithotripsy procedures where stones are broken up by shock waves from outside the body after locating them precisely with ultrasound for kidney stones or x-rays for ureteral stones cases. Urological surgeries also include procedures for the treatment of the prostate and urethral stricture, and the surgical removal of kidney stones through abdominal incision of only 1cm. Around 80% of urological surgeries are performed in a day care setting, where patients can leave the hospital after 23 hours of surgery and receive follow-up care later in the outpatient clinics.
“Urgent surgeries performed at Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital include appendectomy, gallbladder removal, hernia repair and hemorrhoids surgeries, while orthopaedic procedures include arthroscopy, spine surgeries, and fracture surgeries. About 25% of urgent, orthopedic and plastic surgeries are performed in a day care setting. We are currently planning to introduce ENT surgery at Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital in the coming period,” added, Dr Salah.
HMGH is also a teaching hospital that offers training to medical students from Qatar University, as well as residency and fellowship programmes for medical graduates in different specialties. In addition, surgical departments at the hospital published 96 medical research papers in the past three years.
Dr al-Ansari explained that performing 10,000 surgeries at HMGH within 24 months is a remarkable achievement and an important milestone in the hospital’s successful journey of development and improvement.
Dr Morshed Ali Salah, senior consultant, Surgery and Head of the Surgery and Urology Departments at HMGH, explained that 50% of the 10,0000 surgeries were performed in the Urgent Surgery section, while urological surgeries constituted 25% of the total number of surgeries and orthopaedic and plastic surgeries constituted the remaining 25%. The surgeries were performed on patients aged between 18 and 80 years.
HMGH's six operating rooms run at 85% capacity and are staffed with a team of 35 surgeons who perform around 600 surgeries every month. The average waiting time for non-urgent surgeries does not exceed two weeks. Dr Salah explained that urological surgeries include removal of kidney stones and urinary tract stones using endoscopes, high-precision lasers, and surgical robots.
The hospital offers highly advanced lithotripsy procedures where stones are broken up by shock waves from outside the body after locating them precisely with ultrasound for kidney stones or x-rays for ureteral stones cases. Urological surgeries also include procedures for the treatment of the prostate and urethral stricture, and the surgical removal of kidney stones through abdominal incision of only 1cm. Around 80% of urological surgeries are performed in a day care setting, where patients can leave the hospital after 23 hours of surgery and receive follow-up care later in the outpatient clinics.
“Urgent surgeries performed at Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital include appendectomy, gallbladder removal, hernia repair and hemorrhoids surgeries, while orthopaedic procedures include arthroscopy, spine surgeries, and fracture surgeries. About 25% of urgent, orthopedic and plastic surgeries are performed in a day care setting. We are currently planning to introduce ENT surgery at Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital in the coming period,” added, Dr Salah.
HMGH is also a teaching hospital that offers training to medical students from Qatar University, as well as residency and fellowship programmes for medical graduates in different specialties. In addition, surgical departments at the hospital published 96 medical research papers in the past three years.