Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Jawish Ihsanoglu and Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci, Mohammed Taleb Al Khauri, Managing Director of Taleb Group and other officials at the opening of the hospital in Doha. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula
The first Turkish Hospital in Qatar with advanced facilities and emergency services was officially inaugurated yesterday by Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Jawish Ihsanoglu.
He was joined by Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci and several other officials during a ceremony held at the hospital located on the C Ring Road in Doha. Ihsanoglu and Zeybekci toured the two-storey hospital building which includes an Emergency Department, Medical Department, Diagnosis and Treatment Units. They were briefed about its facilities and services available at the hospital.
“Turkey and Qatar has excellent bilateral relations. Turkish businessmen are very much interested in investing in Qatar and Qatari authorities are providing us a good opportunity. This hospital is another sign of our good relations,” said Ihsanoglu speaking to the reporters.
“This hospital is a partnership between Turkey and Qatar. I’m very happy to officially open it today. I visited the units and it’s a first class hospital. The hospital is very well equipped, including intensive care units for adults, new born children as well as for people with cardiac problems. Intensive care units are very important for a hospital. This hospital also has doctors with expertise in different areas so whoever comes here they will find appropriate treatment."
Turkey is known for very good healthcare even people from this region come there for treatment. Those services and care is available here,” the Turkish foreign minister added.
The 100-bed Turkish Hospital had a soft opening on January 17 and have started receiving patients seeking treatment on several specialties. It has 20 outpatient clinics.
“We have been receiving outpatients since the soft opening. From today we will start accepting inpatients as well. We will finalise agreements with the insurance companies within the coming days. We expect the number of patients to increase once they are able to benefit from insurance services here,” Dr Volkan Uygunucarlar, chairman of Ruzgar Group and co-chairman of the Turkish Hospital told The Peninsula.
The Turkish Hospital has five operation theatres, 14 beds in the Intensive Care Unit, two delivery rooms, angiography and radiology units, laboratories and a pharmacy. At present it has 40 doctors and has the capacity to treat more than 1000 patients daily.
“We have more than 20 polyclinics for surgical and internal departments. Approximately, we will be able to see more than 1,000 patients daily. All our doctors are coming from Turkey and the medical staff is from different countries including the Philippines, India, Egypt and Albania. All of them are well experienced in their specialised fields,” said Dr Uygunucarlar.
Its surgical department includes orthopedics and traumatology, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ENT, general surgery, cardiovascular surgery, urology, plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, ophthalmology, anesthesiology and reanimation.
“All our teams at the surgical department are well experienced. In Turkey we work as a central hospital, where we get patients from other hospitals. So our experience in areas of cardiology, neurosurgery, gynaecology and orthopaedic is very exceptional, said Dr Uygunucarlar.
The Turkish Hospital’s diagnosis and treatment units are equipped with latest technology and it includes services such as MRI, CT, digital X ray, mobile digital X ray, mammography, bone densitometry, angiography, 4d ultrasound, echocardiography EEG (electroencephalography) cardiac stress test, microbiology laboratory, pathology laboratory as well as neonatal ICU.
“Only a five-star facility is not enough for a hospital. But we need to have efficient doctors and the latest technology. We have brought the most advanced technology available in the medical industry,” said
Dr Uygunucarlar.
The Emergency Department includes two polyclinics, observation and isolation rooms, as well as separate rooms for CPR and trauma care.
“The emergency department is very important. Because there will be time to listen and examine outpatients, but it’s not the case with emergency cases. We need to do correct diagnosis and make correct decisions within minutes , so we have chosen a very experienced team. The team includes doctors who are experienced treating large number of patients in Istanbul,” said Dr Uygunucarlar.
The internal departments include pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry, gastroenterology cardiology, radiology, pathology, dermatology and hair transplant center, internal medicine physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
“Many people come to Istanbul for hair plant and we have brought it here bringing an experienced team and advance technology in the industry,” said Uygunucarlar.
