The Infectious Disease Unit, established in November 2006, is intended to meet the needs of the Royal Hospital in the field of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases. The main goals of this IDU are:
- To establish an infectious disease service for adults admitted to Royal Hospital.
- To offer an up-to-date treatment and prevention HIV/AIDS service to the public of Oman.
- To create national and international links with leading institutions specialized in Tropical and Infectious diseases institutions.
- On the inpatient level, the unit serves as one of the 4 Internal Medicine admitting units and teams on call.
- To facilitate teaching and research activities.
- To be an advisory national unit for the tropical and infectious diseases.
FACULTY
Dr Seif Salem Al-Abri, BSc, MD, MRCP, DTM&H, MSc, DLSHTM, PGCTLCP, RCP Educator, CCT, Sr. Consultant & Director of Medicine and Head of Infectious Diseases Unit
Dr. Faryal Ali Khamis, MD, MRCP, Sr. Consultant, Infectious Diseases
One rotating medical SHO
ACTIVITIES
The Unit provides the following service:
- There are 12 beds allocated for the unit for admission of Infectious Diseases.
- The bulk of the workload is responding to consultations for patients admitted to other clinical units and referred to the infectious disease team. Majority of the referrals are from the other Acute Medicine intake teams.
- The unit also receives referrals from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Department of General Surgery, and from Division of Obstetric and Gynaecology.
- The unit is the tertiary care unit for inpatient HIV care, and it also provide consultations to the Haematology and Oncology departments especially for immunocompromised patients, patients with febrile neutropenia and transplant patients.
- The unit runs 3 outpatient clinics every Sunday for consultation and follow up of infectious disease cases.
The Infectious Disease Unit is the link between the Microbiology Laboratory and the physicians. It also provides clinical services for infection prevention and control, and is actively involved in the hospital strategy on antimicrobial control.
The unit is also involved in different national advisory committees, like tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, and the national task force group for viral hemorrhagic fevers.
Additionally, the unit participates actively in the educational activities, whether these activities are local, national or international. The unit is involved in the daily CME activities of the department of medicine; it also takes part in the undergraduate teaching of 5th and 7th year medical students. It is a postgraduate training unit in infectious diseases and it helps in the training of the medical residents.