The Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) two new hospitals — the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) and Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC) — have welcomed its first patients to its outpatient clinics.

The patients were consulted at the uro-gynaecology clinic at WWRC and a podiatry clinic at ACC, situated in the Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City, reported Gulf Times.

The two new facilities joined the Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI), which welcomed its first patients last year. Additional clinics as well as surgical services will commence later this year at both facilities and will be gradually phased in ahead of the official opening of the new hospitals, reported The Peninsula.

The uro-gynecology clinic is the first Women's Hospital facility to relocate to the WWRC and will be followed by its oncology and colposcopy clinics.

Once the WWRC is fully operational, it will offer a range of surgical and clinical services from preconception to childbirth, post-natal care and beyond.

The ACC will also gradually introduce clinical and surgical services.

Podiatry services will be followed by audiology, ENT and gastroenterology outpatient clinics and a pre-admission anesthesia clinic and surgical services, reported Qatar Tribune.

The ACC, once completely open, will offer patients a new approach to surgical and clinical care, providing day care surgery, some inpatient surgical care and clinical care in a single dedicated location.

“The start of outpatient services at both the ACC and WWRC highlights HMC’s ongoing commitment to delivering the highest quality healthcare through world class facilities and clinicians. It represents an important milestone on our journey towards the opening of the new Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City facilities later this year,” said Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City and Al Wakra Hospital CEO Prof Adam Cairns.