Basra Health Directorate

The First Specialized Center for Dentistry announced the volume of work and therapeutic medical services provided to patients during the past week, as the center received more than 1,168 patients across all its departments.

A medical team successfully performed a spinal cord tumor removal surgery at Al-Mawani Teaching Hospital.

A Surgical Medical Team Performs a Successful Operation for a Very Large Bilateral Inguinal Hernia Using Two Meshes at Al-Faw General Hospital

Emergency Catheter Intervention for a Premature Infant at Al-Sibab Teaching Hospital
An emergency catheter intervention was performed to save the life of a premature infant weighing 2,000 grams who was suffering from critical pulmonary valve atresia and low oxygen levels. The procedure successfully opened and dilated the obstruction using graded therapeutic balloons, resulting in an increase in oxygen saturation to 94% .

Successful percutaneous transcatheter balloon angioplasty for severe Coarctation of aorta in a 13 years old male patient

453 units of blood were collected at the Blood Donation Center at Al-Qurna General Hospital during last November.

More than 115 patients attended the ophthalmology outpatient clinic at Al-Mawani Teaching Hospital

The Morning Consultation Clinic Laboratory Unit at Al-Faw General Hospital continues to provide medical services, receiving 236 patients and conducting more than 880 laboratory tests for patients and referred cases during the second week of the current month of December. These tests included clinical chemistry, hormonal assays, and hematology.

A surgical medical team successfully performed an anterior cervical disc replacement at Al-Mawani Teaching Hospital.

The Cardiac Catheterization Division performed 19 successful procedures in a single day at the Specialized Heart Hospital.