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Al Waleed Ben Talal Humanitarian Foundation donates the costs to establish a Palliative Care Unit

• The palliative care aims to reduce the patients' pain and enrich their quality of life and its ending.
• The palliative care unit is an important unit to care patients who suffer from cases of coma and terminal health cases and who are in need of palliative medical and nursing accompanying.
• With a generous donation from the humanitarian Foundation of Al Waleed Bin Talal, the palliative care unit was established prepared and equipped in the second floor of the west building of Dar Al Ajaza Al Islamia Hospital which provides eight beds for intensive care.
• The need of this kind of medical and nursing services pushed Dar Al Ajaza Al Islamia Hospital to be a pioneer by establishing the first unit of intensive care among the elderly associations and the long term residence associations.
• The team work of a care unit is formed by two essential teams, the medical team headed by a specialized doctor (the unit's president) and the specialized nurse team and if needed other specialists could be called for.
• The mission of the team work is to treat the coma patients and the terminal health cases patients as well as nursing and taking care of them around the hour from the beginning of the patients admission until they leave the therapeutic unit.

• The vision of a palliative care unit is being a centre of the leading health service to coma patients and the terminal health cases, and accompanying them throughout their last moments with dignity and a decent humane level.

• The admission procedures are summed up to the following steps:
• The presence of the patients' family to the admission office in the hospital along with his identification certificate and a copy of his medical file and the medical reports and a replica copy of the hospitalization card issued by the ministry of public health in the previous hospital.
• Do the medical interview with the hospitals' doctor.
• The aproval of the hospitals' doctor.
• Complete the paper work in the admission office.
• Completion of the approval of the ministry of public health and get the hospitalization card.
• Specify an appointment for the patients' entrance.