Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI), under the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), has provided world-class care to more than 50,000 patients since the opening of its first clinics in December 2016.
Throughout 2017, the range of services provided by teams at the QRI has continued to expand, including the start of inpatient care in March. By November, more than 10,000 outpatient visits were being recorded each month.
QRI is the region’s largest tertiary rehabilitation hospital, providing high-quality rehabilitation services through the most technologically-advanced patient-centred care. QRI is significantly expanding HMC’s capacity to care for recovering patients. This expansion, combined with the most modern rehabilitation facilities in the region, will provide patients with faster access to rehabilitative care.
QRI chairperson Dr Wafa Al Yazeedi said that they make a ‘real positive difference’ to the lives of patients.
The number of patients receiving care at QRI has increased every month this year. Our rehabilitation teams utilise the hospital’s state-of-the-art facilities to achieve our overarching goal – helping our patients reach their full recovery potential so they can return to living as normal a life as possible.’
One of the many patients who has benefited from the advanced care at QRI is 38-year-old Saeed Ali Al Marri.
Al Marri, a Qatari national, was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in the United States, in June last year. A car struck him and knocked him off his motorcycle, pushing him under a truck. Al Marri was in coma for 15 days and suffered from severely broken arm, leg and other serious injuries.
At the time, doctors in the United States said my arm was so badly damaged that they may have to amputate it. When I heard this news, I was shocked and saddened. I have always been a very active person so the possibility of losing an arm deeply worried me.’
Al Marri spent the next few months receiving care in various US hospitals. He went through 15 surgical procedures in order to save his arm. He returned to Qatar in October and has been receiving rehabilitation care at the QRI through its specialist Day Care Programme.
Sultan Al Abdulla, Chief of Occupational Therapy at QRI, said that patients who require intensive rehabilitation care but are well enough to return home each day can receive care as part of our Day Care Programme.
These patients benefit from intensive daily rehabilitation treatments with expert therapists at QRI, while being able to return to the comfort of their own home each night.’
Al Marri said that the quality of care he experienced at QRI since returning to Qatar has been outstanding.
For three hours a day, five days a week, I receive intensive rehabilitation care from a dedicated team of occupational therapists and physical therapists. When I returned from the US, I was unable to walk and was reliant on a wheelchair. Due to the expert care I have received, I am now able to walk with minimal support and I am on my journey to a full recovery.’
He said that the overall experience at QRI have been greater than he could ever hoped for. Having received rehabilitation treatment in the US for several months following his accident, he was all praise for QRI which, according to him is truly world-class.
Dr Al Yazeedi said that everyone at QRI is incredibly proud of the way Al Marri has responded to the care he has received from the QRI teams. Al Marri’s successful rehabilitation, according to Dr Al Yazeedi, is an example of the way in which they help patients maximise their recovery.
The QRI advanced facilities include seven hydrotherapy pools, 11 advanced gyms, a specialist Sensory Room, and an Assisted Living Unit in which patients can relearn simple daily tasks and re-adjust to life at home.
For more information about QRI, visit the HMC website at hamad.qa.
