A British tourist sent a letter of thanks to Dubai, to save her life from bleeding in the brain, hours after her arrival in the emirate.
The 39-year-old British woman, Lindsey, said that she arrived in Dubai for a vacation with her husband and two children. On the same day she arrived in the city, after checking in to her hotel, she suffered from severe headache and unbearable neck pain.
She added, "The medical team learned from the Atlantis Hotel, that there is a problem that may require major medical intervention, so they took me to the nearest hospital, and fortunately for me, it was Al Zahra Hospital Dubai."
"When I arrived at the emergency room at Al Zahra Hospital in Dubai, I had a CT scan of the brain that revealed severe bleeding and aneurysm, which means that the brain is no longer able to cope with the excess cerebrospinal fluid that led to high brain pressure."
Dr. Mohamed Khamis, the intensive care unit specialist in the hospital explained that the artery wall in the brain was threatened to weaken and explode, which may lead to bleeding threatening the patient's life, so the intensive care unit was inserted to quickly control her condition, and she had an emergency interventional catheter to treat an aneurysm The blood is under general anesthesia by Dr. Ayman El Sebaei, consultant of interventional radiology on the same day, and Dr. Sabouh Kassis, a neurosurgery specialist, has performed brain surgery to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid.
"The tourist was placed on a ventilator and vital and nervous signs were closely monitored and control of brain pressure and blood pressure measurements. After ten days of intensive care unit care, she was transferred to the medical department under the supervision of Dr. Sezer, a neurologist at the hospital." And after making sure of the stability of the situation, she was allowed to leave the hospital, and it was great news for Al-Yansi and her family.
The tourist Lindsay expressed her great gratitude to the hospital for saving her life, and she said, "I am very fortunate to have excellent medical care in Al Zahra Hospital Dubai, I will never forget what the medical staff did with me to save my life as my doctors made the right decisions at the right time and the intensive care unit nurses reassured me." And my care throughout my stay, I did not imagine that Dubai has doctors of such great competence. "
The British tourist sent a letter of thanks to the hospital's medical team, and said the UAE should be proud of its health capabilities and expertise.