The Maternity and Children Hospital in Al-Ahsa, over the past year, has conducted 5,700 surgical operations. Also, the hospital has served more than 19,000 inpatients and over 8,400 births, during the same period.
In the same vein, the hospital’s medical teams have successfully performed a rare operation for a 5-year-old girl using a microsurgical endoscope. She was suffering from chest infections and heartburn. After due clinical examinations and laboratory and x-ray tests, she was diagnosed with a hernia in the diaphragm. Doctors decided to conduct a surgery during which the hernia was successfully repaired. The girl left the hospital in good health.