King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital

(KKESH) is a tertiary care ophthalmic facility operated by the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The hospital provides quality tertiary ophthalmic care to the patients it serves and promotes the delivery of Kingdom-wide ophthalmic care through its outreach, educational, and research programs.

For more than two decades, KKESH has been recognized for excellence in its delivery of ophthalmic patient care, for its strong educational programs (including continuing medical education seminars and symposia, and training of ophthalmology residents and subspecialty fellows and other allied healthcare personnel), and its highly successful research programs. These achievements have been made possible by the grace of Allah, the Almighty, and through the generous ongoing support of the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud.
The mission of the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital is to serve as the centre of excellence for tertiary eye care on behalf of the citizens of Saudi Arabia, consistent with the highest attainable standards of multi-specialty eye care services, education of physicians and ancillary health care professionals and research into the causes and treatment of eye disorders indige

nous to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
At KKESH, the following services are provided:

1. Therapeutic services. Unavoidable problems are managed at KKESH. We receive patients referred to KKESH by the Government and private hospitals, health centres, clinics, and the general medical committees. These patients receive optimum and tertiary medical and surgical eye care, as appropriate.

2. Research services. KKESH conducts clinical and field research and survey activities for identification of the geographical distribution of ocular disorders and investigation of the aetiology of eye disease according to the variances of age, sex and geographical location.

3. Educational and Training services. This is realised by making the best use of the medical technical and administrative potentials of the on-site, high-calibre personnel in developing the skills of the Saudi Nationals on staff at KKESH and from the health and education organisations. Thus, they are enabled to assume their role in operating this and other eye care institutions.

4. Preventative services. These are achieved through the diligent efforts being exerted to disseminate health education among the public at their locations by means of tapes, books, posters, publications, seminars, public lectures etc. Such activities help in the control and prevention of communicable and other eye diseases.

There are ongoing vacancies, for Nursing, Medical and Paramedical staff. Excellent benefits including 1- or 2-year contract, free housing, medical care and free return flight for each contract completed.

The Anaesthesia Department at KKESH

KKESH has a surgical unit of 12 operating theatres serving the people of Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

Patient care began in December 1982. In addition to offering comprehensive eye care, KKESH has developed education and research programs and become an ophthalmology-training centre for Saudi ophthalmologist and other related health care professions.

Surgical services receive approximately 9,000 patients a year that require anaesthesia care. An estimated 20% of these patients are under 12 years of age. The neonatal and paediatric patients require general anaesthesia as well as many geriatric patients with their diverse medical problems.

The CRNA / Anaesthetic nurse monitors all general and regional anaesthetics, reviewing their assigned cases and preparing drugs and equipment for each case. Skills required for the CRNA include: airway control, intubations, interpreting monitored information, intravenous drug and anaesthetic gas administration. Anaesthetic care is given under the direction of an Anaesthesiologist.

The work is done according to the American system and the hospital is accredited by the JCAHO (Joint Commission of American Health Organisation).

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