A field hospital in Mahboula provides treatment to about 196,000 people, 20 percent are families and 80 percent are bachelors, reports Al- Seyassah daily. It has been 80 days since Mahboula was placed under total lockdown.
As the situation improves as the health indicators are positive, there is a strong possibility for lifting the total lockdown on Mahboula, after there has been a significant decrease in the number of coronavirus infections. The head of the pharmacy department of the hospital, Dr. Mona Al-Failakawi explained that the procedures for admission to the hospital start with entering the name in medical records department, and checking the civil IDs of patients (citizens and expats) without accepting fees.
The patients went to a large waiting hall before they are transferred to the concerned department based on their condition. She pointed out after the screening is done they are transferred to the respective mobile clinics — eight clinics are allocated (two for internal, and the same for teeth, a bone clinic, and another for women and childbirth and a respiratory disease clinic and a psychiatric clinic — inside the hospital), each according to their health conditions. Also, available is two observation rooms, one each for men and women, a pediatric vaccination clinic and a radiology department, and after a patient has finished the examination, he/she is directed to the pharmacy department to receive medicines, and then allowed to return to their respective homes.
After a full inspection tour of the mobile clinics, the director of the field hospital, Dr. Muhammad Al-Kandari, who confirmed the hospital’s contribution in treating 300 coronavirus patients since the start of the Clinical Residency Department last month and until now, pointing out that the number of clinical cases currently in the hospital is 25, all of which are moderately infected.
Al-Kandari said the work in the hospital began on April 10, and patients were received 48 hours later. He stated that the hospital is divided into two parts, the first is a dispensary to provide primary care to the residents of Mahboula, including citizens and expats, and the second section is the field hospital to house suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus.
The hospital works as a supplement to Adan Hospital, he said. He added the hospital was gradually equipped according to the need for health services, as “we began to equip three clinics in addition to the pharmacy and radiology department, and after we sensed the need for other clinics such as the gynecology and obstetrics clinic, the orthopedic clinic, the mental health clinic and vaccination, we addressed the department heads specialized in the region such as Dr. Meshal Al-Hadhoud, Dr. Haya Al- Mutairi and Dr. Abdullah Al-Faris, who kindly provided the required medical personnel and equipment at these clinics.
He added, “on May 20, we felt the need to operate the second part of the hospital due to the severe pressure on health services at the Adan Hospital, so we cooperated with the Medical Engineering of the Ministry of Health to prepare the hospital to receive cases (residents of Mahboula) that require hospitalization and since that time til date we treated more than 300 coronavirus patients until their condition improved completely, and only 15 cases required admission to intensive care unit of the Adan Hospital to complete the treatment.