He said its Emergency Department (ED) had shown 97.6% ambulance preparedness and dispatch for primary response was achieved in less than five minutes.
“From January to July this year the department had received 6,215 Priority I ambulance calls (critical emergency cases).
“Beside that, 67% of Priority I ambulance calls were responded in less than 15 minutes,” he said in a statement, here today.
He said on average the Red Zone received 600 cases a month (20 critical cases a day), 2,000 semi-critical cases (66 cases a day in Yellow Zone) and more than 10,000 non-critical cases at Green Zone.
“The department has 10 specialists, leading a group of 39 medical officers and many other paramedics and health professionals working closely as a team providing pre-hospital care besides emergency medicine service,” he added.
Noor Hisham said HSA was also a proud home to the Neurosurgery Department which conducted 649 major surgeries and 317 minor surgeries in 2016.
He said the hospital has fulfilled its key performance indicators(KPI) in 2016 when 99% of newly-diagnosed brain or spine tumour patients in 2016 had undergone elective surgery in less than three months and 100% of its paediatric patients who had undergone celebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery had been safely operated by the neurosurgeon.
“Today, while browsing through the statistics for HSA, I must say that I am proud of this remarkable achievement,” said Noor Hisham.
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