Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) and Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC) yesterday welcomed the first patients to their outpatient clinics.
The patients were consulted at the uro-gynaecology clinic at WWRC and a podiatry clinic at ACC, situated in the Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City.
Additional clinics as well as surgical services will commence later this year at both facilities and will be gradually phased in ahead of the official opening of the new hospitals. These new facilities join the Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI) which welcomed its first patients last year.
Prof Adam Cairns, CEO of Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City and Al Wakra Hospital, said, “The start of outpatient services at both the ACC and WWRC highlights Hamad’s ongoing commitment to delivering the highest quality healthcare through world class facilities and clinicians. It represents an important milestone on our journey towards the opening of the new Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City facilities later this year. We are setting the bar even higher in terms of what our patients can expect from us as these facilities are established both within Qatar and the region as state-of-the-art centres of excellence for women’s health, outpatient care, minimally invasive surgeries and medical rehabilitation services.”
The uro-gynaecology clinic is the first Women’s Hospital clinic to relocate to the WWRC and will be followed by its oncology and colposcopy clinics. These together with additional clinical and surgical services will also be gradually phased in throughout the course of the year.
The WWRC is designed to provide women in Qatar with specialised care through all stages of their lives. Once fully operational, it will offer a range of surgical and clinical services from preconception to childbirth, post-natal care and beyond. The 72,000 square metre facility which will replace Women’s Hospital as the largest tertiary hospital in the region will be staffed by over 2,000 highly trained clinicians specialising in gynaecology, obstetrics, and newborn care. It will offer 240 private inpatient rooms, a significantly larger emergency room, 7 operating theaters, 26 delivery rooms and 112 cots in the neonatal intensive care unit for the care of critically ill newborns.
The ACC will also gradually phase in clinical and surgical services through the course of the year.
