Welcome To Adan Hospital

Out-patient clinics

We have OPD over the whole working days ,The OPD on Monday are for unit A ,while OPD on Wednesday and thursday for unit B ,Sunday and Wednesday for urology also .We still have diabetic foot clinic on Monday and thursday .Admission clinic is on Tuesday for unit A and Thursday for unit B.More details on OPD are available in the Departmental Policy.

In-patient wards

Endoscopy suite

Established since Dec.1982 by the surgical department of thehospital, to begin with it gave services to the surgical department only. By1985,it started to serve the hospital as a whole, and by 1995,it has come asthe 3^rd.GIT Endoscopy center of Kuwait. By this time video endoscopeservice and emergency GIT bleeding therapeutic services were well established,serving by now whole of south of Kuwait. By 2004, a well designed GIT EndoscopySuit was available. In 2005, a clinic in the suit was also given to a physiciangastroenterologist.

Over the years all the improvements were from the efforts ofthe surgical department with the advice of the Al-GhanemGIT Center,Al-Amiri Hospital,and co-operation of the localand higher administration.

At present there are 5 consultants, 4, senior registrars, whodo 4 days a week regular endoscopes sessions from the surgical department, aswell 4 trainee registrars in surgery are trained under supervision. One daywork as mentioned above is for the physician gastroenterologist for his ownpatients only. Surgeons as well are round the clock available for emergency GITendoscopies, as each surgical team have at least one endoscopist within.

At present on average about 15 UGIT and 5 LGIT endoscopiesare done per working day, and on average about 2000-2500 UGIT and 600-1000 LGITendoscopies are done per annum.

Diabetic foot clinic

Diabetic foot clinic started on 1997 for thetreatment and care of diabetic patients with foot infections andulcerations, we started by a surgeon, physician, nurse and podiatrian.We are seeing in average around 20 new cases per week asking advise andtreatment. From our follow up we noticed that the rate of amputationsdecreased and the major ones converted to minor amputation's for thephalanges only.
At present D.F.C (Diabetic foot clinic) is run by surgeons and anurse only and so we are taking care of surgical problems (infection,ulcers & gangrene) only. It is opened all days of the week for thedressings except Friday. On Monday & Thursdays the surgeon isavailable to see the patients, we have no appointments to see them andmay come with no reference from other departments.

ESWL Unit

The ESWL unit is one of the Urology subunits. In this unit electromagnetic shockwave lithotrepsy is provided to patients with all kinds of genitourianry stones. The unit works 4 days aweek and in the fifth day we are following the patients up. Both x-ray guided or U/S guided lithotrepsy are available. The current machine we have is Siemens Lithostar and a new machine to be installed soon in the unit. The unit is covering all patients from Adan hospital and Ahmadi Hospital at the mean time.
Analgesia is provided to all patients under supervision from the Anaesthesia department and full anaesthesia is available for children and for patients who request it.

Urodynamic Unit

The Urodynamic unit in Adan hospital provides complete urodynamic studies to the both inpatients and outpatients. The unit has a well equipped urodynamic machine with urodynamic chair. Cystometry, pressure flow studies, urethral pressure profiles, and uroflowmetry are performed in the urodynamic unit.
A new wireless uroflowmetry machine was recently installed in the unit. The unit works two days a week(tuesday and thursday) for outpatients and daily for inpatients.

Main Operating Theater

    The hospital has anultra-modern operating suite consisting of eight rooms utilized by thevarious departments. Four of these operating rooms are used daily byour department for open surgical, minimal invasive and urologicalprocedures. one operating room is utilized for emergency surgery on 24hour basis. there are two additional operating theaters incasualty/emergency are devoted on 24 hour daily basis for minorsurgical procedures, ambulatory surgery and emergency trauma patients.each opearting room has preanaesthesia room and advanced anaesthesiaequipment with monitoring facility, modern operating lights and latestavailable theater equipment. High resolution cameras and monitors areavailable for minimal invasive surgeries.
    There is availabilityfor intraoperative imaging and endoscopic system for specific surgicalprocedures and facility for recording of operative procedures. This isalso supported by well equipped recovery rooms for operated patientshaving advanced monitoring equipment available for immediatepostoperative care.
    The opearting suite is linked to theconference room and lecture theater/Auditorium of the hospital byintegrated system with facility for conducting live audiovisaulpresentations/ video conferncing and discussion.
   Our department isplanning along with Ministry of health to upgrade present operatingsuite to the state of the art image itegrated OR system which will haveintegration of multiple new technologies. Upgrading of these operatingrooms are an example of our commitment to increasing range and safetyof minimally invasive and open operative procedures for our patients.

Obesity Clinic

Rectal Clinic

This specialized clinic was established in 1999, caring for the majority of anorectal problems, where diagnosis and treatment is provided by senior surgeons.

The clinic has recent and new equipment like band ligator and infrared coagulation. Approximately 4000 patients were treated in the clinic with satisfactory results.