Hawari inaugurates expansion of emergency department at 2 Jordan Valley hospitals

AMMAN — Health Minister Firas Al Hawari on Thursday inaugurated the expansion of the emergency department at the Princess Basma Hospital and Al Mashari comprehensive health centre in the Northern Jordan Valley. Hawari commended the support from Saudi Arabia to establish the centre, whose cost reached some JD750,000, funded by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Hawari noted that the centre provides services in the areas of family medicine, children, internal medicine, gynaecology, general medicine, dental services, laboratories, radiology, vaccines, motherhood and childhood care, and benefits over 50,000 people in the Al Mashari, Sheikh Hussein and Tabaqet Fahal neighbourhoods. The emergency department's expansion area was approximately 250 square metres, comprising five emergency patient surveillance beds, a sampling room, ECG, an ambulance and emergency laboratory, a medical record section, an accounting area and a patient triage room.