Dr. Mohamed Salim Al Olama, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health visited Saqer and Obaidallah hospitals in Ras Al Khaimah as part of his site visits to the facilities of the Ministry of Health. The undersecretary was accompanied by Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, Assistant Undersecretary for Hospitals Sector.

Inside Saqer Hospital, Dr. Yousif Al Tair, Director of Saqer Hospital gave a detailed explanation to the undersecretary about the scope of work, departments and provided services to patients and visitors.

Dr. Al Olama addressed the administration of the hospital to provide more nursing staff to the emergency and accidents department to satisfy the needs of the hospital and maintenance of the departments. He also called for more CT scan machines to the x-ray department and the necessity of appointing an x-ray technician and consultant to give the best medical services to the patients and visitors. He also listened to the suggestions and notes of the medical and technical staff about the procedures, mechanisms, important needs and future aspirations in the health field.

At Saqer Hospital, Dr. Al Olama stated that the time of patients entry to the outpatients clinic takes more than 30 minutes. It turned out that the main reason is the shortage of doctors at the clinics and called for previous planning and coordination to reduce the waiting time for not less than 15 minutes to improve the appointments system as early as possible.

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health also visited the laboratory section at the hospital and recommended to conduct regular maintenance for some lab equipments in a short span of time to avoid sending them to Al Qassimi hospital and lead to a delay in the results.

At the end of the visit, Dr. Al Olama and accompanying team visited Obaidalla Hospital to check the psychiatry department and asked to improve the services, conduct similar maintenance and update the medical equipments there to adapt with the nature of the patients’ diseases.