The higher education board’s decision to establish the College of Medicine at Majmaah University with the beginning of the academic year 2010-2011 was not an ordinary news to the residents of the region, but a promising one that the health service would be of better quality, particularly with the university’s commitment, since day one, to serve the community at best.
This approach of serving the community through various programs and activities was adopted by the university over the past years until a new era was marked by allowing some fifty of the university’s consultants and professors to work at hospitals located within the university’s geographical area. The university has gone even further to take part in surgeries for rare cases which were undertaken successfully.
One of these rare cases was handled by a medical team from the College of Medicine at MU and King Khalid Hospital in Majmaah – led by Dr. Nasser Al-Darwi, Assistant Professor in Surgery – in treating a patient who has been suffering a chronic abdominal pain for five years without proper diagnose.
The patient, who is a young Saudi lady, has visited many other hospitals. After being diagnosed at King Khalid Hospital in Majmaah, she has been found to have a rare disease called ‘left-side hernia’.
After the medical imaging and radiation was carried out by Dr. Sulaiman Al-Sheikh and Dr. Waleed Al-Khalidi, An exploratory telescope for the abdomen was performed with the assistance of Dr. Wajdi Al-Amri, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Infertility and Infertility Children, and the patient was treated.
Another medical team headed by the neurosurgery consultant and a professor at the university, Dr. Abdelrahman Al-Harbi managed to treat a case that suffers from a clot in the brain.
Similarly, a successful advanced surgery was performed at King Khalid Hospital in Majmaah for a 28-year-old patient who suffered a Shortness of the left limb and a bony deformity at the bottom of the thigh bone which caused her a chronic pain in the right limb.
The surgery was performed successfully under the supervision of Dr. Abdelmalik al-Biker, faculty member at College of Medicine, MU, Dr. Hamzah al-Rebei, faculty member at College of Medicine, Saud University, and Dr. Mohammed Saeed, Orthopedic Specialist at King Khalid Hospital.
A rare surgical operation was also performed for a lady in her twenties who has been suffering from a severe abdominal pain. After she has been diagnosed, it turned out that she is suffering from unusual disease called ‘lemmel's syndrome’, a case occurs when a duodenal diverticulum causes obstructive jaundice due to a mechanical obstruction of the common bile duct.
As several diagnoses using endoscopy was done for the patient has failed to determine the cause of the pain, she had to undergo for a surgery. The surgical operation was performed successfully by Dr. Nasser Al-Derwi, Associate Professor of General Surgery at the College of Medicine of Majmaah University.
And in cooperation with King Khalid Hospital, MU medical team has completed successfully the first laparoscopic kidney removal surgery for a patient.
The surgery - which is the first of its kind - was performed by Mohammed Al-Khamis, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nephrology and Urology with the assistance of a medical team in the surgery section.
Dr. Khalid al-Abdelwahhab, MU rector’s advisor and supervisor of health colleges, is present on weekly basis in his clinic to serve patients and performs fine surgeries at King Khalid Hospital.
MU also offers training courses in cooperation with hospitals. For instance, two of MU specialties in Pediatric Pulmonology, Dr. Bader Al-Mughem, Head of Pediatrics Department and Dr. Abdullah Al-Olayan, vice-dean for clinical affairs, and both specialties in Pediatrics, Dr. Yousef Al-Raheemi, head of Anesthesia Department, and Dr. Mohammed Farahn, have participated in a 12-hours course organized by King Khalid Hospital under the theme “Respiratory Emergency in Children for Kids”.