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Emergency Advice for Out-of-Hours |
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What should I do in an emergency? What if it's 3 in the morning and I think my child has appendicitis? |
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This is a question that is commonly asked by our patients. We are a primary care clinic and offer high |
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quality medicine within office hours. It is only natural, especially if you are new in town, to be concerned |
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about emergencies as the system may be a little different from back home. |
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We can divide out-of-hours medical care into 4 categories: |
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Non-Urgent |
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Generally, a minor fever or a cough, a tummy ache or a mild pain is a non-urgent case. These types |
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of conditions do cause worry when they happen in the night or at a weekend. As a rule, non-urgent cases |
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that are stable can wait until the clinic opens at 8:30am. We will always do our best to fit in patients as |
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soon as we can. These cases are by far the majority. |
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Urgent |
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Concerned that the medical condition cannot wait or is deteriorating? We recommend that you consider |
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attending hospital. Most of our patients choose the private sector hospitals that offer 24 hour services and |
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who operate their own charged-based ambulances. |
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The Public Sector Medical Services are also very good. Al Wasl Maternity and Children's Hospital has an |
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excellent reputation for maternity and childcare and deals with sickest children and babies. |
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The regional Trauma Centre is based at the Rashid Hospital. |
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If you are really concerned you can dial 999 and the Dubai Unified Ambulance Service will attend and take |
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you to Rashid Hospital. Response times are usually very good. |
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Emergency / Accident |
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If someone stops breathing, has a severe bleed or any other major injury at home or on the highway, |
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call 999. Ambulance response times may be different to expectations but in our experience they are quick. |
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Trauma services have recently been upgraded to meet the growing needs of Dubai, with improvements in |
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ambulance and critical care. |
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Inifinity personnel recently trained with some of these wonderful paramedics on the Pre-Hospital Advanced |
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Trauma Life Support course and found them to be well trained, . |
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enthusiatic and very professional. |
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Dubai Police / Ambulance will deliver you to Rashid Hospital's recently completed |
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'state of the art' Trauma Centre that provides excellent care for major traumas. |
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This unit is comparable with equal to top hospitals around the world. |
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It is a legal requirement that all accident cases are reported to the police even if you attend hospital and |
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the police have not yet been involved up to that point. |
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If A Death Occurs |
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The police will need to be involved whether or not a crime has been committed. They are fair and balanced |
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but the procedures may differ from those in other countries. You may need to plan for this to take a while |
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as it may involve a stay in the police station at a time when you feel quite vulnerable. |
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Make sure that you are registered with your Embassy or Consulate and don't hesitate to contact them |
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so that they can assist you with any arrangements which might need to be made. |
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