Since 4:30 in the morning, emergency medicine consultant Dr. Faisal Al-Mazroua gets into his car and goes to his daily work, tirelessly, in treating critically ill patients in a health hospital.
In emergency medicine, where priority is given to the most critical cases, the doctors in each “shift” are keen to hand over the details of the sleeping cases to the next shift, to rescue the patients and to continue the medical process started by the previous team.
While emergency departments are usually filled with patients in Ramadan, especially at the time of breaking the fast, especially accidents and burns in children, doctors are ready to deal with these cases and quickly respond before they escalate.
Dr. Faisal stresses that time is a very important factor in emergency medicine, as minutes – and perhaps seconds – may be decisive in saving a patient’s life. The delivery of an artificial respirator usually takes a few minutes, but it contributes to saving the lives of people with respiratory diseases and heart patients.
This is how the emergency doctors from the “People of Health” receive new stories every day, their vigilance and readiness drawing a happy ending to it.
Dr. Faisal Al-Mazrou, a consultant in emergency medicine, describes how he feels every night:
“Every day is a story, and every day a door opens, and you don’t know what is behind it.”#health_people pic.twitter.com/JP4sVTqQIR— Saudi Ministry of Health (@SaudiMOH) April 23, 2022