Publication: thepeninsulaqatar.com - English (English | Website) Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is providing its full support to Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) COVID-19 efforts through a volunteer programme, which was carried out in the summer months of 2020. In June, QBRI employed all of its efforts to provide high-calibre volunteers to...
Publication: thepeninsulaqatar.com - English (English | Website) Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Tobacco Control Centre, a designated World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre, recently participated in a virtual meeting organised by the WHO. The meeting discussed smoking cessation services and related treatments. The discussion involved experts from the WHO in Geneva and the Regional Office for the Eastern...
Publication: albawaba.com - English (English | Website) Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) have devised a new way of testing cancer treatments to reveal how some tumors are able to resist chemotherapy drugs and continue to spread. Led by Dr. Anna Halama, Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology & Biophysics, the WCM-Q team combined two innovative research...
Publication: gulf-times.com - English (English | Website) Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has completed the construction and furnishing of an isolation facility inside the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' (IFRC) largest field hospital, operated by QRCS and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) at Refugee Camp No 7 in Cox's Bazar, southern...
Publication: gulf-times.com - English (English | Website) Diabetes care professionals from across Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) held a workshop highlighting the important role played by diabetes educators in supporting the delivery of safe care during the Covid-19 pandemic.The workshop emphasised the role of diabetes self-management education as a key component of patients diabetes care.Director of Diabetes...
Publication: gulf-times.com - English (English | Website) The Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) confirmed that the premarital screening service remains available at the designated health centres, alongside all the precautionary measures to prevent coronavirus (Covid-19).The PHCC said that premarital screenings are ongoing amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but with precautionary measures to prevent the infection as well...
Publication: qatar-tribune.com - English (English | Website) It is a must for you to take a healthy and balanced diet to keep your body’s immunity system on the track, a Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) clinical dietitian has advised.According to the expert, a healthy balanced diet should not be consumed only during the COVID-19 season but at...
Publication: thepeninsulaqatar.com - English (English | Website) Hamad Medical Corporation said that, since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, nearly 13,000 nurses have provided essential services to tens of thousands of patients across a wide spectrum of COVID-19 related healthcare sites. Nursing teams from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) have expertly delivered...
Publication: thepeninsulaqatar.com - English (English | Website) In a sophisticated surgery that lasted for hours inside the operating room of the Al-Shefaa Medical Complex in Gaza, Dr. Iad Al-Roubi, the senior urologist hired by Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), and his medical team managed to remove a big prostate gland enlargement in a patient (65) who...
Publication: thepeninsulaqatar.com - English (English | Website) Ministry of Public Health today recorded 520 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) and 961 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people recovered in Qatar to 98232. The Ministry also announced 4 deaths due to Covid-19. The total number of positive COVID-19 cases recorded...
