King Faisal Specialist Hospital
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre -
Riyadh
The Kind 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. It
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.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital - Jeddah
This is the sister hospital to King Faisal in
Riyadh and currently has 250+ beds. The hospital was
originally built as a private hospital in the 1990s but was
bought by the Saudi Government to extend services to the general
population and was opened 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, adult and paediatrics. 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 and so there are some exciting employment
opportunities coming up in the next few years - both clinical and
management.