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References per day to 70 beds 700
King Fahd Hospital emergency patients are treated in the corridors
March 26, 2013
Hussein Hazazi (Jeddah)
Facing the emergency department at King Fahd Hospital General in Jeddah great pressure these days because of vacation mid-second semester and the high number of visitors Bride of the Red Sea from the various regions of the Kingdom, especially in the end of the week under a shortage of family section, and that is what forced the medical staff to the reception and treatment in corridors.
reviewers complained interviewed Okaz of congestion in the section despite the expansion. Mansour al-Masoudi said that he had attended a companion to his brother, who has been moved by the ministry of the Red Crescent to treat severe shortness of breath. Due to the lack of beds has been first aid in the corridor in front of the rest of the reviewers. He continued: It is in light of overcrowding section reviewers become medical service provided to them randomly without order, pointing out that there is a family mobile everywhere and left medical staff to provide treatment.
For his part, criticized Moussa al-Harbi, the current status of the emergency department at King Fahd, a proposal to increase medical staff Working in the department and directing private hospitals to assist in providing medical services to emergency situations especially critical of them.
, explained for «Okaz» program director of medical care for inpatients at the hospital, Dr. Mohammad Badahdah, that the emergency department receives daily 600 references while no department only 70 beds divided between men and women. As a result, he said to the large pressure ragged patients in emergency rooms and intensive care without a family. A number of reviewers are waiting in the queue for a bed, including situations where you need to intensive care.
pointed out that intensive care, you need to utmost care, and bear per room more than three patients, but we find the five patients Mnomin or more. .
and the price of the role of home medical teams at the hospital, pointing out that
they managed to convince 320 patients follow-up treatment in their homes, where medical teams visit them daily between nine o'clock in the morning and three in the afternoon.
http://www.okaz.com.sa/new/Issues/20130326/Con20130326584332.htm
References per day to 70 beds 700
King Fahd Hospital emergency patients are treated in the corridors
March 26, 2013
Hussein Hazazi (Jeddah)
Facing the emergency department at King Fahd Hospital General in Jeddah great pressure these days because of vacation mid-second semester and the high number of visitors Bride of the Red Sea from the various regions of the Kingdom, especially in the end of the week under a shortage of family section, and that is what forced the medical staff to the reception and treatment in corridors.
reviewers complained interviewed Okaz of congestion in the section despite the expansion. Mansour al-Masoudi said that he had attended a companion to his brother, who has been moved by the ministry of the Red Crescent to treat severe shortness of breath. Due to the lack of beds has been first aid in the corridor in front of the rest of the reviewers. He continued: It is in light of overcrowding section reviewers become medical service provided to them randomly without order, pointing out that there is a family mobile everywhere and left medical staff to provide treatment.
For his part, criticized Moussa al-Harbi, the current status of the emergency department at King Fahd, a proposal to increase medical staff Working in the department and directing private hospitals to assist in providing medical services to emergency situations especially critical of them.
, explained for «Okaz» program director of medical care for inpatients at the hospital, Dr. Mohammad Badahdah, that the emergency department receives daily 600 references while no department only 70 beds divided between men and women. As a result, he said to the large pressure ragged patients in emergency rooms and intensive care without a family. A number of reviewers are waiting in the queue for a bed, including situations where you need to intensive care.
pointed out that intensive care, you need to utmost care, and bear per room more than three patients, but we find the five patients Mnomin or more. .
and the price of the role of home medical teams at the hospital, pointing out that
they managed to convince 320 patients follow-up treatment in their homes, where medical teams visit them daily between nine o'clock in the morning and three in the afternoon.
http://www.okaz.com.sa/new/Issues/20130326/Con20130326584332.htm