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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

OBGYN.jpgThe Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at KAMC – Riyadh is the busiest department in our medical city with more than 40% of admission and discharges, and 8,697 total deliveries for year 2008. The department consists of three subdivisions with sub-specialist consultants.


Divisions

  • General Obstetrics & Gynecology

Provide care for general obstetrics and gynecological patients via outpatient in Clinic 101, inpatients services in Wards 1, 2, 3 & 4 and nursing and midwifery care is performed in our Labor & Delivery unit.

  • In Vitro Fertilization & Reproductive Endocrinology

Provide In Vitro Fertilization treatment to patients with the inability to become pregnant. With assisted reproduction, a man's sperm and woman's egg are combined until fertilization occurs and thereafter, the embryo is transferred back to the woman's uterus for development.

  • Perinatology: Feto Maternal Medicine

Perinatology is a subspecialty of obstetrics and perinatologist are physicians who have extensive training in the field of high risk obstetrics thus providing care for both mother and fetus with a higher than normal risk for complications. Under this division, many fetal abnormalities are detected at an early in pregnancy at high percentage accuracy rate.

Staff



Dr. Azza Madkhali

Chairman

Dr. Hayat Ahmed Al Rabiea'a

IVF and Reproductive EndocrinologyDivision Head

Dr. Nadia Ali Al Ghilan

Perinatology Division Head

Dr. Saeed Ali Alsary

Reconstructive Female Pelvic Surgery and Urogynecology Division Head

Dr. Sharifa Omar Al Ghamdi

General Obstetrics and Gynecology Division Head

Dr. Heba Hamam

Labor Delivery and Assessment Room Director
Obstetrics Triage Assessment and Management Unit Director

Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al-Sehli

Chief Ultrasound Services



Statistical Data

  • Number of deliveries almost 9,000
  • 50% of our patients are high risk patients
  • Caesarean section rate + 20%
  • IVF & Reproductive Endocrinology unit treats 900+ patients per year
  • Almost 40,000 examinations performed last year (2008) in the ultrasound unit
    • In the main unit, almost 8,000 ultrasounds performed with 133 invasive procedures.

Achievements

  • Lowest perinatal mortality rate in the country, 5.7/1000
  • Diagnosis of fetal abnormality is extremely high
  • Our department has the highest passing rate of residents for the Saudi and Arab Board exams. Most of the gold medals were from our institution

Contact Us

Phone number: +966-11-8011111 ext: 13062 - 13611

email: obg1@ngha.med.sa