Opening of the New Emergency Department at MAHAK Hospital

MAHAK Hospital, as part of its initiatives on infrastructure development in recent years, has renovated its emergency department to improve services for children with cancer according to its main mission.

According to Dr. Behdad Sobouti, the deputy CEO in hospital logistic, the previous emergency department, with an area of approximately 230 square meters, has been relocated to a new and larger space with about 430 square meters.

This change has been made in line with the current needs of the hospital. According to the standards of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, every hospital must dedicate at least 10% of its capacity to emergency beds. MAHAK Hospital has a minimum of 76 inpatient refers daily; given that the reconstructed emergency is designed with eight clinical supervised beds, two isolation rooms, and a dedicated psychiatric isolation room which can surpass the current standards. Additionally, there is the possibility of deploying 10 resuscitation beds in this emergency department for crisis situations.

Adherence to all national and international standards in the new emergency department is another merit of this section. Equipping with independent systems of air conditioning, technical facilities, electrical panels, and dedicated firefighting boxes allows these facilities to have more applications in crises. Furthermore, this emergency department is designed in three different areas including pre-entry, operating room, resuscitation room, and inpatient department which facilitate access to equipment as well as staff and resuscitation beds’ movement than before.

Designing new emergency department, the special attention has been paid to the well-being of families of children with cancer to reduce their intersectional referrals. the process of admitting and treating children becomes much easier for their parents as a result of placing all sections of emergency department in one floor including lobby, reception, play room, pharmacy, cashier, and discharge areas.

Such measures result in time and energy savings for parents and staff as well, optimizing energy consumption, and improving services for MAHAK children and their parents.

Despite all the measures taken for this emergency department, we wish for the day when no children has to be admitted at hospital or emergency department.