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Rehab Unit for Accident Victims Opens in Rashid Hospital
DUBAI — Survivors of serious accidents can now look forward to manage their life better with the first Dubai government-backed facility to offer in-patient rehabilitation services opening on Wednesday.
The facility at Rashid Hospital will offer help severe trauma patients get treatment locally.
Till now, national patients were provided either home nursing or recommended to seek treatment abroad. Expatriates were usually sent back to their home countries after being given initial care. A few private hospitals in Dubai are offering the rehab services in rare cases.
Currently, 120-130 cases, mostly victims of work-related accidents, are being referred daily to the Outpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Unit at the hospital.
Several therapies, including treatments to restore cognitive functions such as memory, space disorientation and concentration, will be given at the in-patient facility.
Patients who were earlier being treated for 15 minutes a day at the OPD will now be given ample attention and time to help restore simple body functions such as standing, walking and balancing the body to be able to resume a normal life.
“Across the world, developed countries are facing a growing demand for rehabilitation facilities and we have responded to that,” Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, Director-General of Dubai Health Authority (DHA), said after the inauguration.
The new eight-bed in-patient ward is part of the total expansion plans of Rashid Hospital. “We will have two more wards opening within a month,” he added.
However, not all of the cases coming to the OPD can be given a place in the ward. “We have strict selection criterion,” says Dr Suad Trebinjac, Consultant and Head of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department.
“We can only take cases that show promise and allow them stay for maximum six months,” he said.
The patients taken in will include quadriplegics (complete paralysis) and paraplegics (part paralysis) due to brain and spinal injuries while some stroke cases will also be considered.
He said the majority of the cases requiring rehabilitation were construction-site related accidents followed by road accidents. “We see workers who have fallen from heights because safety precautions are not followed at the work place,” said Dr Trebinjac.
“Most car accident cases are aged between 18-45 with the majority ending up with severe disability.”
The unit, established in 1973, received the Shaikh Hamdan Award for Medical Science in 2008 for being an outstanding medical department in the UAE.
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