Hamad Bin Khalifa Hospital provides99,000 medical services in Mauritania

Hospital has a workforce of 81 specialist physicians, nurses, and assistants

QNA

Doha: The Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital in Boutilimit, Mauritania, has issued its annual report on the medical activities and services implemented for the benefit of local communities in Boutilimit and neighboring regions during 2023.

Over the past year, the hospital provided about 99,000 diverse medical services, including general/specialized consultations, surgeries, obstetrics, laboratory tests, radiology, and pharmaceutical prescriptions.

Operated by Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Education Above All (EAA), the hospital relies on its own resources and infrastructure, with a workforce of 81 specialist physicians, nurses, assistants, social workers, and administrative staff.

To meet the hospital’s everyday needs, some worn-out medical and nonmedical equipment was replaced, and there were maintenance works and repairs at some departments and facilities.

The overall budget of the hospital for 2023 amounted to $1,880,660. It has four medical divisions: outpatient, inpatient, technical, and emergency. There are seven outpatient clinics of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, general surgery, orthopedics, dental medicine, and ENT.

Currently, the hospital has a capacity of 54 beds in four recovery departments (internal medicine, pediatrics, Ob-Gyn, and general surgery). The reported year recorded 5,625 inpatients with a total of 12,800 stay days. The bed occupancy rate was 65.84 percent, with an average of 2.28 stay days per patient.

As the hospital pays great attention to maternal and child health, the Ob-Gyn department supervised 1,768 births, including 379 C-sections, with a 20-percent surgical intervention percentage.

The hospital continued to provide training for the students of public health schools, such as the schools of public health in Rosso and Kiffa and the National Higher School for Health Sciences in Nouakchott. To ensure sustainability of professional capacity-building, the hospital took part in many conferences and training workshops with other organizations and organized internship and field training programmes for nurses.

Established in 2007, the Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital is supervised and funded by EAA.