King Faisal Specialist Hospital - Saudi Arabia
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in
Riyadh is a 800-bed multi-facility, multi-entity
tertiary care hospital and one of the leading healthcare
institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, located in the capital
city of Riyadh. KFSH&RC is the national referral centre for
Organ Transplantation, Oncology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Genetic
Diseases and Neuroscience. The hospital provides a full range of
tertiary, secondary and primary health care services to the
population it services. The hospital's postgraduate education
programs support both Residency and Fellowship training for the
Saudi Medical Graduates.
The Research Centre focuses on basic and translational research
primarily in cancer, cardiovascular diseases, transplant
immunology, genetics, molecular diagnostics and proteomics. It has
four key departments: Biological and Medical Research, Biomedical
Physics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Scientific Computing, and
Cyclotron and Radiopharmaceuticals.
The hospital has been a pioneer in both kidney and bone marrow
transplantation, IVF, oncology, cardiovascular and orthopaedic
surgery. The hospital performs over 2,000 open heart surgeries and
around 6500 cardiac catheterizations per year. Paediatric
oncology/haematology patients are treated at the King Fahad
National Centre for Children's Cancer and Research that opened in
1997 and over 80 stem cell transplants are performed annually.
The sister hospital, King Faisal Specialist Hospital in
Jeddah is currently a 250 bed hospital originally built as
a private hospitals in the 1990's. It was late bought by the Saudi
Government and began offering its services to the general public in
2000. It has a 24 hour emergency service, short stay surgery,
dentistry, neurosciences, ophthalmology, medical oncology,
orthopaedics and cardiovascular services. It is internationally
accredited.
The hospital has confirmed a large expansion project bringing
its' bed numbers up to closer to 800 over the next three to five
years, positioning itself as the largest referral centre for the
western region.