At the level of the Arab world, to face peripheral arterial ischemia (PAD) disease, the first clinic in the Kingdom and the Arab world for peripheral arterial ischemia was opened at King Fahd Hospital in Al-Baha. Dr. Abdul-Rahman bin Maqbool Al-Orabi, a consultant cardiologist and head of the cardiology department in the hospital and the owner of the idea of establishing it, explained that this clinic, which was opened after the approval of the general supervisor of the hospital, Dr. Abdul Hamid bin Safar Al-Ghamdi, is the first of its kind in this field and contributes to raising The level of health care for patients suffering from arterial infections, venules and lymphatic vessels and arterial ischemia due to the presence of hardening and narrowing in the peripheral arteries, hardening and narrowing of the arteries of the heart, hardening and narrowing of the arteries of the kidneys, neck and brain. The clinic also raises the quality of life for patients with affliction by following them and giving them the correct medicines in cases Chronic and knowledge of the relationship with other arterial diseases such as the heart, kidneys and brain to treat it in a timely manner in addition to early diagnosis so that we can be prevented. The doctor explained the importance of this clinic for patients who are referred from health centers and hospitals and who used to go directly to the vascular surgery clinic, so that this clinic makes the necessary tests and the appropriate diagnosis and then treatment or communicates with the vascular surgeon in case of surgical intervention, indicating that the percentage of Heart incidence for patients who visit the internal medicine clinic ranges between -5030% of cases. Dr. Al-Orabi warned of all kinds of fats and meat, lack of great exercise and poor diet, indicating that all of these are the causes of atherosclerosis, indicating that the clinic opens its doors in the morning from eight to twelve in the afternoon on Sunday and will be developed in the future through the Great Heart Center, which It will be opened soon in the hospital''s medical tower project. It is reported that this clinic is only found in Austria, Switzerland and southern Germany.
For his part, the General Supervisor of King Fahd Hospital in Al-Baha, Dr. Abdul Hamid Safar Al-Ghamdi, confirmed that this clinic will be a great qualitative leap in the hospital and will be developed and supported. He thanked Dr. Al-Orabi for this medical achievement, which aims to treat patients suffering from these diseases in correct scientific ways, stressing that the hospital passes With development stages, it will contribute, God willing, to raising the efficiency of productivity through the huge projects that are available to it, perhaps the most prominent of which is the medical tower project, which is underway at a cost of 70 million riyals, and it will have a special section for the heart equipped with the latest medical equipment.
