The incumbent director of the National University Hospital is Dr. Abdel Ghani Al-Shalabi, who assumed the position on December 24, 2024. Dr. Al-Shalabi is a specialist in general and laparoscopic surgery, having trained in France, and serves as a professor of general and laparoscopic surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the Damascus University.[4]
Facilities
The hospital has facilities for MRI and CT scan, a gamma camera and lithotripsy device. The operations ward contains 11 operation rooms suitable for laparoscopic and open heart surgery as well as computerized neurosurgery. Analyses performed by the hospital lab include hormonal, immune, tumor, pharmaceutical, and lymphatic tests/ It has a stem cell bank. The hospital provides medical, therapeutic and surgical services to patients. It is used to train students and graduate doctors from Syrian universities and contributes to scientific research. Hospital activities include internal specialties, including cardiac, neurological, gastrointestinal and kidney. It also performs general, endoscopic, vascular and cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and urosurgery. It has a kidney transplant unit and a physiotherapy unit.[citation needed]
The hospital contains 645 beds, 36 of which are for intensive care, and has a special emergency ward for internal diseases.[5] The faculty of medicine at Damascus and the National University Hospital carry out research into oncology, which increased during the Syrian crisis.[6]
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