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The Paediatric Haematology Unit
was first established on 1975 in the Paediatric Department of Al-Sabah
Hospital in order to provide modern care to children with childhood
leukaemias, thalassaemia, sickle cell disease, other
haemoglobinopathies, Haemolytic anaemia, bone marrow failure and
bleeding disorders. On April 2000 this unit was shifted to NBK
Children Department which was donated by National Bank of Kuwait (NBK).
This beactifully and efficiently desingned department is connected
through a passage to the main Paediatric Department which has indeed
all paediatric specialities including paediatric intensive care.
The Unit provides inpatient , Day Care and Out patient facilites.
There are two inpatient wards- ward 1 with 14 private rooms plus
DayCare center and ward 2 with 16 private rooms plus 4 isolation
rooms. The Day care center has 6 group rooms each with 5 beds for
transfusion of blood and blood products and intensive iron chelation
therapy. The Unit is staffed by paediatric haematologist /
oncologists and Paediatricians, see operational
policy.
Staff :
senior consultant (Dr.K.C.Aboobacker) 2 specialists (Dr.Mona Bu-Rahma,
Dr.Eman Al-Mater) and Senior registrar (Dr.Maha Burosly ) .
Registrars : Dr Ziad ,Dr.Nadia, Dr.Hisham, Dr.Ali,,Dr.Omnia,Dr.Hatem,
Dr.Rania, Dr.Hanaa).
The Unit is recognised by Kuwait
institute for medical specialisation for postgraduate teaching and
training. For operational policy, please refer to operational policy
of paediatric haematology unit. Our haematology lab is well equipped
to provide routine and specialised investigations to make definitive
diagnosis of paediatric haematological disorders and childhood
leukaemias. Our central blood bank which is accredited to American
Association of blood bank makes sure the blood and blood products
used in Kuwait are very safe and of top quality. All therapeutic
agents for management of paediatric haematological disorders and
childhood leukaemias are freely available. Also specialised
evaluation by echocardiogram, unltrasonography, CT, MRI, MRA,
MRI-T2* and Transcranial doppler as well as paediatric specialist
consultations (Surgical, Cardiac, Pulmonary, Endocrine, ENT,
Ophthalmology, Renal, Orthopedic) are readily available.
ROUNDS
The Major Teaching ward round in this Unit by senior Consultant
Dr.K.C.Aboobacker is on Tuesday, specialists (Dr.Mona, Dr.Eman)
doing rounds on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
All the children with childhood leukaemias in Kuwait are treated by
recognised protocols and followed up only in this Unit, the
incidence of leukaemia in Kuwait being 2.5per 100,000 per year under
15years of age. Though bulk of other haematological disorders are
managed in our Unit, some are treated in 5 other regeonal hospitals
in Kuwait.
Our Thalassaemia center
in this unit provides both day care as well as out patient care with
most uptodate management and evaluation to 75% children with
thalassaemia in Kuwait. Our reuslts of management of childhood
leukaemias and other paediatric haematological disorders are
comparable to those in developed countries. A team for bone marrow
transplant is being formed and the construction of BMT center close
to our building is going on, hope fully to be completed within a
year and thus to provide another important milestone in the
management of our patients.
OPD
Dr / K.C.Abu Baker (Senior consultant ) , Dr / Mona Bu Rahma
(specialist ) ,Dr / Iman Al - Mater ( specialist ) , Dr / Kusay Al -
Saleh ( Senior Consultant , Head of Pediatric Department of Farwania
Hospital - only in leukemia clinic) .and hematology unit staff Dr /
Ziad , Dr / Nadia , Dr /Hisham ,Dr / Ali , , Dr / Omnia , Dr/
Hatem , and Dr/ Hanaa .
LeukemiaOPD : Sunday
Other blood diseases : Monday.
Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell disease
: Wednesday.
(all clinics from 8 am- 1.30 pm) .
Average number of patients seen in Hematology clinics leukemia ---
171 / mo.
Others --- 56 / mo
Tel & Fax : 4835826
The Publications from this Unit:
1. Discrepancy between the splenic up take of 99 Tc m- tin colloid
and heat denatured 99 Tc m red blood cells in Sickle cell disease-
Nuclear Medicine Communication 6, 1985.
2. The Role of Nuclear Medicine in diagnosis of Bony and Splenic
complications of Sickle Cell Disease, The Islamic World Medical
Journal 1986: 1: 19-21.
3. Acute Lymphocytic Leukaemia in Children in Kuwait, Journal of
Kuwait Medical Assocation 1987 : 21: 307-314.
4. Study of Renographic changes in children with Sickle Cell Anaemia.
Paper presented at Fourth Asia and Oceania Congress of Nuclear
Medicine- November 1988 Abstract No.P 53.
5. Radionuclide Imaging of the Spleen with Heat Denatured Technetium
99 m RBC when the splenic reticuloendothelial system seems impaired.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine 1988 : 29: 320-323.
6. Successful Pregnancies following remission in childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia – case report. Annals of Tropical
Paediatrics 1991: 11: 301-303.
7. Molecular characterization of alpha Thalassaemia Determinants, B-Thalassaemia
Allets and Bs Haplotypes among Kuwaiti Arabs. The Journal of Acta
Haematological 1994: 92: 176-181.
8. Childhood Acute immune (idiopathic) Thrombocytopaenic Purpura in
Kuwait. The experience of Al-Sabah Hospital. J Kuwait Medical
Association 1996 : 28: 451-454.
9. Endocrine disorders in B-Thalassaemia Major in Kuwait. J Kuwait
Medical Association 1996 : 28: 252-6.
10. Diamond – Blackfan Anaemia in Kuwait: outcome of fourteen cases.
J Kuwait Medical Association 1997 : 29: 269-274.
11. Thalassaemia Major in Kuwait. J Trop Pediatr 1998: 44: 311-312.
12. Childhood Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura: How far
should we treat ? J Kuwait Medical Association 1998 : 30: 196-200.
13. Trisomy 5 in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia .
Acta Paediatr 2003 : 92 (7): 878-9.
14. Homozygous Severe Protein C deficiency Type 1 : Longterm
Prophylactic intermittent therapy with subcutaneous purified Protein
C concentrate. First case report from Kuwait. Kuwait Med J (In
press).
15-Acyclovir induced reversible renal failure in an immunocompro -mised
child with extensive cutaneous herpes zoster. Kuwait Med J (In
press).
15. Familial Diamond – Blackfan Anaemia.
Case report. J Trop Pediatr (In press).
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