Shafa Hospital’s infectious disease doctors are ready to provide diagnosis and treatment services to visitors and patients. These specialists and staff strive to bring patients a speedy recovery by diagnosing and treating infections arising from exposure.
The infectious diseases ward provides the following services:
- Training to enhance medical services by ward staff
- Managing influenza epidemics by experience
- Holding numerous meetings with nurses and staff to improve medical services
- Holding infectious disease theory classes for the staff
- Holding regular inter-departmental training conferences
- Holding monthly hospital infection control committees with infectious disease specialists and clinical pharmacists
- Checking microbiological cultures by type of microbe, ward, and invasive actions taken every three months and reporting to the committee
- Summary of seasonal per capita antibiotic use
- A clinical pharmacist to determine antibiotic dosage
- Using modern equipment such as X-ray, jet sterilizer, and more for ward sterilization
List of common diseases in the infectious disease ward:
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Pneumonia
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Urinary tract infections
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Meningitis
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Encephalitis
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Cell tuberculosis (TB)
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Diabetic foot
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Cellulitis
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AIDS
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Influenza
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Fevers of unknown origin (FUO)
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Zona
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Hepatitis
- Bedsores
