March 10, 2020 –Socotra Online
Reporting: Said Salem Abu Wazir Photography: Ibrahim Youssef
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital is considered as the main hospital in Socotra, and provides great health services that include diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative activities for residents of the island and Socotra Archipelago in general.
Khalifa Bin Zayed El Nahyan Socotra Hospital witnessed various expansions with the support and financing by the United Arab Emirates, and included the expansion in several stages, including the construction of a hospital building and equipping it with medical staff, different departments, medicine, laboratory solutions and medical devices. The second stage includes building a building for outpatient clinics, housing doctors, administrative offices and a dialysis unit. The third stage includes expansion the emergency department and the major operations department and equip them with modern medical equipment with international specifications to receive a large number of patients.
The hospital enjoys generous care and unlimited generous support from the United Arab Emirates through its humanitarian arm, Sheikh Khalifa Foundation in all medical, technical, administrative and service aspects in addition to bearing the necessary financial aspects for the conduct of the work and various activities, which made the hospital such a prestigious position and medical and good reputation.
The numbers and statistics reflect the workload in the hospital and the level of medical and health services provided, as well as important health indicators for evaluation, and it can be said that Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital in Socotra is a prominent health science. The noble goals in providing comprehensive health services easily and with quality that meet the need and obtain the satisfaction of the beneficiaries.
According to the statistics for the year 2019, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital in Socotra provided 270,837 medical services distributed as follows, the emergency department, 8878, medical cases 4,865, and minor surgery surgeries 4013. The emergency obstetric department has received 1161 births, including normal delivery 859 and caesarean deliveries 312, while the number of sleepers reached 3038, the 488 men section, the 1976 women section, the children section 574, and 951 major operations were performed. The statistics of the number of patients and visitors to the outpatient clinics included 65,642, including the specialist 45,883 and the mobile 5045.
The visiting physician 1418 and the general physician 13,296, the visitors to the laboratory department reached 27049, the number of examinations is 99,142, and the radiology witnessed the number of 8378 visitors, while the first ultrasound is 7013, and the Eco 274. The dialysis unit received 297 visitors and during which 494 dialysis sessions took place.