President of Muscat Municipality visits Aster Royal Hospital

Roundup Sunday 24/July/2022 20:44 PM
By: Times News Service
President of Muscat Municipality visits Aster Royal Hospital
Photo from RL: Ms. Rahma Saleh, Dr Shinoop Raj, Dr Ashendu Pandey, HE Ahmed Mohamed Al Humaidi, Ms. Nadiya Azghar Al Balushi, Mr. Sumith Kumar

Muscat:  With the soft opening of Aster Royal Hospital nearing, the newest super-multi-speciality Hospital located in Al Ghubra, received His Excellency Ahmed Mohamed Al Humaidi, the President of Muscat Municipality for a friendly site-visit as a part Zuwarat Aster program. During the tour, which was guided by the Hospital’s CEO, Dr. Ashendu Pandey, His Excellency acknowledged information about all the departments, cutting-edge technology and unique services that the Hospital will avail to the Oman community.

His Excellency visited various departments, including the Intensive Care Unit, radiology and physiotherapy department, Operation Theaters, Cath-Lab, Aster centre of excellences-Gastroenterology (led by the Hospital’s Medical Director and renowned Senior Consultants, Dr. Ashik Sainu Mohiyadeen and Dr. Hisham Al Dhahab), Orthopaedics and Obstetrics- gynaecology for which an entire floor is dedicated to women.

The Muscat Municipality President valued the efforts of Aster Group for bringing new services to Oman, highlighting the importance of keeping the patients close to the families during complex procedures like organ transplantation or heart interventions. He said “During complex procedures or interventions, the patient needs to feel supported by their family and friends, and Aster Royal Hospital is opening this possibility to the Oman nationals that used to travel abroad to get this kind of treatments, contributing to the reduction of the waiting list in the public sector. I appreciate Aster Hospital for this achievement and wish the best of luck for the Soft Opening”.

Aster Royal Hospital has two underground floors of parking area, 200 beds, one entire floor dedicated for Women & Children and a world class team of doctors and medical staff and it will open it’s doors to the public soon. Dr Ashendu was assisted by Ms Nadiya Azghar Al Balushi , HR Director and other team members for the tour.