Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Ras Laffan Hospital has provided high-quality treatment to more than 4,000 COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate symptoms, officials said yesterday.
As part of national efforts to expand the capacity to care for COVID-19 patients, Ras Laffan Hospital treated patients since its opening on April 21. And it discharged the final group of recovered COVID-19 patients and was declassified as a dedicated COVID-19 treatment facility.
Saadia Ahmed Al Hubail, Assistant Executive Director of Nursing at the Ambulatory Care Center and Head of the nursing team at Ras Laffan Hospital, said: “The hospital was initially opened with a capacity of 94 beds and then gradually increased to 762 beds, which included increasing from 10 to 32 ICU beds. During the three months we operated as a dedicated COVID-19 treatment facility, over 600 staff tirelessly worked to ensure patients received the best possible care. I’m proud to say that nurses played an important role in delivering this care.”
“While Ras Laffan Hospital was a dedicated COVID-19 treatment facility, we provided all necessary care to our patients, the majority of whom were manual workers living in the industrial areas. We cared for patients of various ages, many of whom were transferred from HMC’s Hamad General Hospital and the Communicable Disease Center after testing positive for the coronavirus. At our busiest, we were admitting between 120 and 150 new patients each day. Over 4,000 COVID-19 patients were treated at our facility and discharged backed into the community after recovering from the virus. Only three patients were transferred to the ICU at Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital for more specialist care, which I believe is a direct reflection of the high-quality care we were able to provide at our facility,” said Al Hubail.
Mona Al Hetmi, Director of Nursing Education at the Ambulatory Care Center, said: “We worked very hard to ensure our nursing teams at Ras Laffan Hospital were fully unified and that each individual nurse was able to perform their role effectively." P2
