ADULT AND PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS
There are separate Emergency Departments for children and for adults who present with medical, surgical and gynaecological emergencies. Trauma cases that are brought are stabilized and transferred to Khoula Hospital, which is the designated Trauma Center. The Resuscitation Rooms in these emergency departments are well equipped to simultaneously manage multiple patients. There are also 14 plus 4 cubicles respectively in the major treatment halls in the Adult and Pediatric emergency departments. Each of these departments also has observation beds for patients who require reassessment for a maximum period of 6 hours before deciding on admission to the hospital or discharge home.
SPECIALTY CLINICS
The Royal Hospital outpatient specialty clinics cater to non-emergency referrals from regional referral hospitals in the interior and from hospitals and health centers in the capital area. These referral requests are vetted, for appropriateness and urgency, by the clinician of the respective specialty at Royal Hospital, and an appointment is scheduled. Per day, about 500 such referred patients attend the OPD, either for a first visit related to a new clinical episode, or for a re-visit for diagnostic work-up or review. Much emphasis is placed on the back-referral of these patients to their primary catchment area for follow-up. The waiting period is monitored to ensure that patients do not have to wait too long for a consultation appointment. Keeping in mind that the referrals are for higher technical expertise and for tertiary care, the patients are seen by senior clinicians, who are available on specified days of the week in the 40 consultations rooms in Adult and Pediatric OPDs and in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology speciality clinic.
DELIVERY SUITE EMERGENCY ROOM
Patients in labour have ready access to the Delivery Suite through a separate maternity entrance at Level O of the Hospital. The Delivery Suite is well designed, with a 4-bed assessment room, 13 delivery rooms and a 4-bed high dependency unit. The Delivery Suite also has immediate access to the Emergency Obstetrics Operation Theatre.
DAY CARE
Several clinical procedures (chemotherapy, lithotripsy, haemodialysis, upper and lower GI endoscopy, bronchoscopy, coronary and peripheral angiography, bone marrow biopsy, apheresis, therapeutic phlebotomy, transfusion, chelation, etc.) are carried out on a day-care basis. A separate Day-care Ward is in the process of being constructed.
There are separate Emergency Departments for children and for adults who present with medical, surgical and gynaecological emergencies. Trauma cases that are brought are stabilized and transferred to Khoula Hospital, which is the designated Trauma Center. The Resuscitation Rooms in these emergency departments are well equipped to simultaneously manage multiple patients. There are also 14 plus 4 cubicles respectively in the major treatment halls in the Adult and Pediatric emergency departments. Each of these departments also has observation beds for patients who require reassessment for a maximum period of 6 hours before deciding on admission to the hospital or discharge home.SPECIALTY CLINICS
The Royal Hospital outpatient specialty clinics cater to non-emergency referrals from regional referral hospitals in the interior and from hospitals and health centers in the capital area. These referral requests are vetted, for appropriateness and urgency, by the clinician of the respective specialty at Royal Hospital, and an appointment is scheduled. Per day, about 500 such referred patients attend the OPD, either for a first visit related to a new clinical episode, or for a re-visit for diagnostic work-up or review. Much emphasis is placed on the back-referral of these patients to their primary catchment area for follow-up. The waiting period is monitored to ensure that patients do not have to wait too long for a consultation appointment. Keeping in mind that the referrals are for higher technical expertise and for tertiary care, the patients are seen by senior clinicians, who are available on specified days of the week in the 40 consultations rooms in Adult and Pediatric OPDs and in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology speciality clinic.DELIVERY SUITE EMERGENCY ROOM
Patients in labour have ready access to the Delivery Suite through a separate maternity entrance at Level O of the Hospital. The Delivery Suite is well designed, with a 4-bed assessment room, 13 delivery rooms and a 4-bed high dependency unit. The Delivery Suite also has immediate access to the Emergency Obstetrics Operation Theatre.
DAY CARESeveral clinical procedures (chemotherapy, lithotripsy, haemodialysis, upper and lower GI endoscopy, bronchoscopy, coronary and peripheral angiography, bone marrow biopsy, apheresis, therapeutic phlebotomy, transfusion, chelation, etc.) are carried out on a day-care basis. A separate Day-care Ward is in the process of being constructed.
