(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada, a paediatric academic health science centre, celebrated five years of partnership that has transformed paediatric services in Qatar.
To mark the anniversary and the end of partnership, celebrations were held via video link at HMC's Hajar Auditorium and SickKids's Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning Auditorium in Toronto.
"In 2010, HMC and SickKids entered into a five-year partnership that has made strides in children's healthcare in Qatar by integrating clinical excellence, research and education.
"The partnership encompasses every aspect of paediatric healthcare from primary to tertiary services; its overall aim is to build excellence in paediatric care," said Geraldine Johnston, Executive Director, Office of Corporate Child Health Planning, HMC.
As part of the partnership, HMC has established services based on international best practice, spanning adolescent medicine, child and adolescent mental health, autism and social communication, early intervention for developmental delays and paediatric anaesthesia.
Other services expanded include a paediatric surgical high dependency unit, a multi-disciplinary complex care clinic and Al Maha Children's Unit, a long-term facility to improve the quality of life for technology-dependent children with complex medical conditions.
The partnership team has delivered 15 inter-disciplinary education programmes that have benefited over 3,000 HMC healthcare professionals and organised 12 workshops and conferences with nearly 2,000 delegates.
The team has also been at the forefront of building child health research capacity in Qatar.
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