Our professional and experienced team of dieticians is equipped to handle the needs of a multicultural clientele by educating the patient and their families about nutrition and offering counseling to the patients to cope with their unique diet plans.

The hospital dieticians evaluate the patient’s current diet and recommend the appropriate diet therapy. The documentation of the diet counseling is revised on a regular basis in order to evaluate the client’s response to the recommended nutritional therapy. The dietary team acts as a vital part of the patient support services by serving as a liaison between the physician, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.

The Welcare Hospital Pharmacy operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a mission to provide safe, high quality patient care in an atmosphere of professionalism, respect and effective communication.

The Pharmacy Department is responsible for dispensing daily medications for an average of 100 inpatients and 500 outpatients.

A wide range of health insurance policies are accepted for both inpatients and outpatients subscriptions. The process of obtaining the insurance approvals might affect the service waiting time. Please make sure that all required documents are presented to the pharmacy when required (insurance card, stamped doctor prescriptions, stamped insurance forms).

Welcare Hospital has a well equipped dialysis unit that offers modern and comprehensive care for dialysis patients. Patients on dialysis here are managed with uniform adherence to international standards, specifically the K - DOQI guidelines of the National Kidney Foundation, USA and the UK Renal Association. All dialysis procedures are standardized and referenced to such widely accepted sources. The dialysis unit is also actively involved in meeting international standards of quality assurance and measurement, such as the ISO Certification.

	1,210 AED per session of dialysis
	500 AED for consumables as a one time charge

1 USD is approximately 3.65 AED. We request that you make your payments by cash or credit card. Other forms of credit or cheque payments are usually not accepted.

• We require that you send us your medical details. Specifically, the following will be required:

  	A detailed medical report from your treating physician, including details of your current medication
  	Record of drug or other allergies, if any
  	Reports of HbsAg, Hepatitis C antibody titters, and HIV status. These results must have been obtained within the month preceding your visit here. Your dialysis nurse will help you with this.
  	Details of your dialysis treatment (i.e., your dialysis prescription). We would also prefer to have log sheets from previous three dialysis sessions, if possible.

• Travel details, including proposed date of travel, and the dates that dialysis will be required here. After all the formalities are complete, we will be able to provide you with exact time slots.
   
• TWe would advise you to have your last session of dialysis there just before you travel.

Contact Details

Welcare Hospital +971 4 2827788 Extension: 241 (Dialysis) +971 4 2823441 dialysis@ehl.ae

(Local time is GMT +4 hours)

Dr. Mustafa Ahmed
BSc MBBS MRCP MD CCST (UK)
Email: mustafa.ahmed@ehl.ae
[UK Board certified Nephrologist ]
General Medical Council no. 4332439
Head of Nephrology and Transplantation

Dr. Mustafa Ahmed is a Consultant Nephrologist who has trained in the UK for the last 20 years. He graduated from Kings College London and trained in nephrology at the Middlesex institute of nephro-urology, the world renowned renal unit attached to the Kings College Hospital and Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital- one of the largest transplant centers in the UK.

He has varied nephrology interests including a doctorate on ‘nocturnal polyuria’ for which he as won a national award while working with one of the leaders in human clinical pharmacology Sir Patrick Vallance. He is interested in the detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and contributed to the UK National Service framework.

During his time at Guys hospital he conducted major studies on live related/unrelated transplantation, transplantation across blood group barriers and SPK (simultaneous kidney pancreas transplantation). He has conducted the largest study of ‘transplant tourism’ in London and has since lectured on this at both the European Science Foundation and more recently the British Transplant Society (Belfast 2005).

He has set up one of the first renal palliative care clinics for those unfit or unwilling to receive dialysis in the UK. He also runs specialist clinics in renal diabetes, lupus and sickle cell disease and is currently developing newer dialysis modalities such as home haemodialysis and nurse free dialysis programmes (dialysis walk in centers) to take nephrology into the 21 century.

The Diabetes Clinic at Welcare Hospital provides care to patients using a multidisciplinary approach for the evaluation, management and education of patients with Type I, Type II and Gestational Diabetes.

• To improve the health of the diabetes-affected patients by providing the patient and the family with internationally accepted standards of medical care and supervision.
• To endow efficient diabetes knowledge and support so as to enable optimal health outcomes such as proficient self-management and control of the condition.
• To support the local government initiative of reducing the incidence of the disease by
  
  • Increasing public awareness of the disease condition and its complications.
  • Providing appropriate education to non-diabetics on prevention steps.
  • Extending personalized guidance to incorporate lifestyle changes and continued monitoring.

• Licensed Medical Practitioner / Specialist / Endocrinologist
• Certified Diabetes Nurse Educator - provides diabetes education, management and support.
• Licensed Dietitian - provides patient education, counseling, and support on dietary needs for specific diagnoses.
• Patient Relation Coordinator which assists you with the delivery of information and access to health care.
   

Clinic details and referral information :

Welcare Diabetics Clinic Welcare Hospital Tel : 04-2827788 Clinic Days : Sunday to Thursday Clinic Timings : 0900h-1700h Referral : Patients referred by the primary care physician. Self referrals are accepted. For after hours emergencies please contact the A&E department.