16 Tuesday, September 1, 2020 The Last Word Qatar Museums extends opening time for phase 4 of COVID-19 reopening TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK require visitors to pre-book cultural institutions can enjoy Mathaf Library: Sunday Friday: Closed Cass Art: Saturday to DOHA tickets on the Qatar Muse- more time browsing our tem- to Thursday, 9am to 2:30pm MIA Café: Saturday to Thursday: 9am to 7pm; Fri- ums’ website, present a ‘green’ porary and permanent collec- No restriction on library Thursday: 9am to 7pm; Fri- day: 2pm to 7pm WITH the phased-in reopen- health status on the Ehteraz tions and dining at one of our visitors but the necessary so- day: 1:30pm to 7pm Qatar Museums’ play- ing of cultural institutions virus-tracing mobile appli- cafes or restaurants. Over the cial distancing precautions MIA Park kiosks: grounds and the National Mu- and services continuing, Qatar cation and wear a face mask coming months, the commu- will apply. MIA Park Kiosk Café: Dai- seum of Qatar (NMoQ) galler- Museums has announced up- throughout the duration of nity can also look forward to a NMoQ restaurants: ly from 3pm to 10pm ies, along with its Sister Cake dated timings for the Museum their visit. full roster of activities and ex- Jiwan: Saturday to Picco Café Kiosk: Closed Mobile Kiosk, will remain of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: CEO of Qatar Museums hibitions catering to a range of Wednesday from 12pm to until further notice. closed until October 1. Arab Museum of Modern Art, Ahmad Al Namla said, “As cultural interests and artistic No restriction on number 5pm; Thursday and Friday: Hilal Food Truck: Daily Though NMoQ galleries the Fire Station and museum the country enters into Phase passions.” of museum visitors. However, Closed from 1pm to 10pm remain closed, the museum libraries from September 1. 4 of the gradual lifting of Updated timings for MIA, exhibitions will have reduced Desert Rose Café: Satur- Moons Café Kiosk: Closed will launch two digital exhibi- Health and safety proto- COVID-19 restrictions, Qa- Mathaf Islamic Art Museum staff and the necessary social day to Thursday from 8am to until further notice. tions: Qatar’s Culinary Jour- cols, in accordance with guide- tar Museums has reassessed and the Fire Station are as fol- distancing precautions will 8pm; Friday from 1pm to 8pm Fire station ney and Habitat & Shelters, lines from Qatar’s Health Pro- its opening timings and is lows: apply. MIA restaurants: Café 999: Sunday to Satur- exploring themes from its tection and Communicable pleased to announce extended Saturday to Thursday MIA Library will oper- Idam: Saturday to day: 8am to 11pm with a break permanent galleries as well as Disease Control Office in the hours. With the further easing from 9am to 7pm, Friday from ate as the museum’s opening Wednesday: 12pm to 9:30pm; for Friday prayers between content curated by the wider Ministry of Public Health, will of restrictions, visitors to our 1:30pm to 7pm. hours. Thursday: 3pm to 9:30pm; 11am and 1pm. community. Sidra performs lifesaving airway Mowasalat set to resume stent procedure on Omani patient public & school transport TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK services beginning today DOHA TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK MARYAM, a four-year-old girl living in DOHA Oman, suffered catastrophic internal inju- ries following a blunt trauma to her chest af- THE public transport com- ter an accident and developed life-threaten- pany Mowasalat (Karwa) ing airway problems. She required a highly has confirmed its readiness specialised interventional airway procedure to operate public and school to preserve and save her lung, a procedure transport services with the not available in Oman. beginning of the fourth phase Worldwide, there are only a select of the gradual lifting of re- number of hospitals with a combination of strictions from Tuesday amid Cardiac Intensive Care Units (CICU) and the coronavirus (COVID-19) interventional radiology expertise that spe- pandemic. cialise in paediatric airway (bronchial stent) Mowasalat has readied interventions. Sidra Medicine, a QF entity, 2,400 school buses to trans- is one of the few hospitals with a CICU that port students as the new aca- provides support for infants and children demic year starts with all the with congenital or acquired heart disease. required precautionary and The hospital is also the only one in the Mid- Maryam with physicians of Sidra Medicine. safety measures in place. dle East with an advanced intra-operative On this occasion, Mo- imaging suite (IMRIS) supported by adult in Oman. Along with Dr Walid Mubarak, choscopy working together at the same time wasalat Chairman Eng Saad and paediatric interventional radiologists Interventional Radiology Attending, both to insert the stent under direct and indirect bin Ahmed Al Mohannadi and a paediatric cardiac anaesthesia team physicians planned the details of Maryam’s visualization. said: “We are confident of to ensure patient safe outcomes. stent placement using imaging sent from The procedure, which took three hours, our excellent capabilities to Maryam who suffered severe injuries to Oman,” continued Prof Hijazi. featured Dr Durward and Dr Mubarak plac- resume our services in line her left lung, liver and diaphragm as well as Maryam was transferred to Qatar on a ing a biodegradable stent on the left side of with the timing set by the a broken arm was being cared for at the Pae- specially chartered flight, with her father Maryam’s airway. The customised stent, State, in collaboration with diatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Sultan and aunt and was escorted by a paediatric which is 20 mm long and 5 mm wide, was the Ministry of Transport Qaboos University Hospital in Oman. De- medical team from Oman. She was im- placed to keep her airway open and for her and Communications, and spite having undergone multiple complex mediately transported from Hamad In- to make full use of both her lungs. other concerned authorities.” surgeries, and with the surgeons in Oman ternational Airport to Sidra Medicine via “This is a highly specialized procedure, He added: “Karwa is repairing the torn bronchus in Maryam’s ambulance, where she was accompanied by as the stent needs to be positioned very well-equipped to provide lung, her injuries meant that she needed to Dr Andrew Durward, Attending Physician carefully and has to fit the airway exactly in safe transportation for the breathe through a tube (tracheostomy) con- at Sidra Medicine’s CICU unit who is one order to avoid any complications. It is per- passengers, while adhering side buses and at major bus nected directly to her trachea. of the few physicians specializing in airway formed by only a handful of airway special- to the precautionary meas- stations, and ensure green Despite being on a ventilator, Maryam’s interventions and brought the technology ists around the world, in addition to the fact ures in place to contain the status on ‘Ehteraz’ app before left lung kept collapsing due to inadequate to Sidra Medicine from his previous stint at that there are only a few centers that can spread of the virus in accord- boarding the bus. Unaccom- air entry as it was not strong enough to re- Evelina Children’s Hospital in London. Dr perform paediatric airway stents,” said Dr ance with the regulations of panied children under the main open on its own and for her to breathe Walid Mubarak and Dr Ashley Robinson, Andrew Durward, attending physician at the Ministry of Public Health age of 12 are not allowed to normally. This meant that there was a signif- both of whom are considered dedicated Sidra Medicine’s CICU unit. and the Supreme Committee ride the bus, nor people with icant risk of losing her left lung. In order to paediatric interventional radiologists (less Maryam’s recovery was very swift, as for Crisis Management in Qa- medical conditions or chron- preserve it, the PICU team in Oman coordi- than 100 worldwide) and experts in image her breathing improved on the very same tar.” ic illnesses. nated with Sidra Medicine to bring Maryam guided interventions, planned the proce- day following her procedure. Her stent will Mohannadi said that Kar- Meanwhile, Mowasalat to Qatar for the highly specialised airway dure with Dr Durward. biodegrade in three months and is not ex- wa ensures provision of the will also provide aware- stent procedure. Maryam’s procedure was planned as a pected to leave any damage to her airway. highest level of precaution- ness leaflets and videos for “It was critical to bring Maryam ur- multi-modality, multidisciplinary approach She is expected back at Sidra Medicine in ary and safety measures in the safety of students. The gently to Qatar to save her lung. What was with her care at Sidra Medicine involving three months, for a follow up consultation school buses as the schools school supervisors have been even more challenging was the fact that it life-saving support from the CICU unit, in- and a replacement stent with a view of see- are set to open today. “The entrusted with the task to happened during the pandemic – we had to terventional radiology, pulmonology, ENT ing how her airway recovers over time. safety of students is our top Eng. Saad bin Ahmed Ibrahim Al maintain social distancing in put all stops in place to ensure a safe patient and paediatric anaesthesia. Talal Al Balushi, Maryam’s father, said: priority”, he remarked. Mohannadi buses. transfer,” said Prof Ziyad M Hijazi, acting To improve the outcome of the proce- “My family and I are truly grateful for the Mowasalat seeks to en- Mowasalat has also facili- chief medical officer and executive chair of dure, Maryam’s surgery took place in Sidra support we received every step of the way.