(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
Doha: A new optimized model of managing operating theatres across the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has made a positive impact and help in providing timely services, said Dr Moustafa Alkhalil, Director of Corporate Perioperative Committee and Operating Theatres, at HMC.
All operating theatres are looked in as one body through Corporate Perioperative Committee and Operating Theatres, and it make a balance between theaters, manpower and equipment across HMC.
Dr Alkhalil said that Corporate Perioperative Committee and Operating Theatres help hospitals reduce big bulk backlog and long waiting time and some hospitals to improve them in the specialized surgical services they provide.
“We have a big number of theatres to meet the growing demand. There are new hospitals with state-of-the-art theaters, we have the newest equipment and the largest number of surgeries performed in different specialties,” said Dr Alkhalil.
“Through the concept of Corporate Operating Theatres, we look into all theaters as one body to enhance, make balance between all theaters. It helps in distributing the surgeries and reducing the waiting time,” he told The Peninsula.
Dr Alkhalil also said that in case if an operating theatre has to be renovated or upgraded, surgeries assigned at the particular theatre will be distributed to others.
Around 50 operation theatres are at hospitals in and around Doha with advanced facilities and also expansions continue due to the increasing demand.
Dr Alkhalil also emphasized that new and enhanced facilities and network of services will support and reinforce HMC's ongoing efforts to provide the safest, most effective and compassionate care to every patient.
“Qatar has a highly developing healthcare system that has been ranked in the world's top five in terms of quality of care. Here best services are provided at free of charge and within a short waiting time,” he said.
Dr Alkhalil, also a senior consultant and head of Carnio-Maxillofacial Surgery Department at HMC's Rumailah Hospital, said:“We conduct many oncology related surgeries and the surgeries are conducted within two weeks, once its being found that the patient needs a surgery. It is a commendable timeframe.”
HMC's Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery Department conducts around 600 surgeries each year on patients with advanced diseases and disorders of the head and neck, with around 30 percent of these cases involving the removal of tumours.
He also said that a total of 10,587 surgeries were performed in different specialities at Hamad General Hospital, the main tertiary hospital during the first six months of 2021, and the number might most probably significantly increase in second half, said Dr Moustafa Alkhalil, Director of Corporate operating theatres, at HMC.
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