- On Monday, March 31st, 2014, Dr. Ayad K Jihayel, a cardiothoracic, cardiovascular surgeon, and an official guest of Iraqi government paid a visit to the hospital project site, and did witness the construction progress there. Dr. Jihayel promised to have regular visits to the site and to provide his expertise & knowledge to the project in near future. In a separate meeting with His Eminence Al-Sayed Mortada Al-Qazweeni, Dr. Jihayel stated his standpoint on the dire situation of health sector in Iraq, and expressed hope that health projects such as Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital can fill in the shortage in healthcare institutions that are adherent to international health standards. Dr. Ayad is a 1983 graduate of school of medicine at Yale University and has completed his residency at this renowned academic institute. He is currently practicing in the state of New Jersey and Amman, Jordan.
- On March 1st, 2014, Dr. Mohammed Rida Al-Saden, MB.Ch.B, Senior Anesthesiologist at Henry Ford & Windsor Regional Hospitals, and an active advisor and a Member of Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital "Team Karbala" advisory team, was hosted along with his wife, Ms. Nagham Al-Agil, Um Ali, a clinical lab specialist at the Hospital (project) site. He was briefed about the construction progress, and gave his valuable comments to the project administration. Dr. Al-Saden, a native of holy city of Karbala, is a frequent participant in humanitarian aids such as doctors without borders and Red Crescent programs
- The Visit of George Mason University Professor; Dr. Abdulaziz SAchedina, the IIT chair of Islamic Studies at George Mason University, State of Virginia, USA, has visited the hospital construction site and witnessed the progess there. He has given his valuable compliment and appreciation the philosophy of the hospital project.
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In compliance with the international standards and regulations, the Imam Al-Hujjah Hospital project has envisioned and designed an efficient 260 sq. meter wide, Central Sterile Supplies Department (CSSD) that meets the laws and regulations of the international standards. Therefore, CISA Group, a leading Italian central sterilization system provider has been contracted to supply and equip the CSSD at the hospital. The CSSD will have the following areas. The (dirty) area; in which all equipment, surgical tools and supplies are cleaned using ultrasonic washing machines, washing counters and water and steam gums. Then the surgical tools and supplies are passed through tow automatic washer-disinfector-dryer machine, to the second (clean) area. In this area all materials are inspected and packed using magnifying lenses, heat sealing machines and biological incubators. Finally, the packaged and sealed materials are passed to the third (ultraclean) area through two steam sterilizers (autoclaves) and low temperature Plasma sterilizers. The clean, sterilized packages are; then, dispatched to the surgical theater (through clean dumbwaiters) and other hospital quarters.
On January 9th, 2014 the project’s management had the privilege to visit CISA group manufacturing site, in Pomezia, Italy to inspect and receive the CSSD equipment. This equipment will hopefully be installed and commissioned at the site around the end of 2014. It is needless to say, without faithful donors’ generous contributions, this noble work, which ultimately will contribute to saving a deserving life, wouldn’t have been achieved.
It is worth noting that the CSSD or the SPD (Sterile Supplies Department) is an integrated place in the hospital that performs cleaning and sterilization on medical devices, equipment, and consumables for subsequent use in the OR, ER, ICU, and other vital quarters of the hospital. The method of choice for sterilization in the CSSD is steam sterilization utilized by autoclaves (sterilizers) that use steam heated up to 134 C, and a holding time of at least 15 minutes. To ensure the quality of sterilization, the autoclaves are equipped with a meter and charts that record temperatures and the pressure as functions of time. Color indicators are placed within to-be-sterilized packages for further verification. - The Development and Relief Foundation has expanded partnership with The Lady Fatemah (a.s) Charitable Trust (LFCT) Foundation which is a United Kingdom based, non-profit, faith-based humanitarian NGO. The LFCT purpose is to make differences in lives by creating manageable and sustainable projects, and has educational, humanitarian, micro finance, pre-vocational trainings in regional countries such as Lebanon, Afghanistan, Gaza, Iran, India, the West Bank, Kenya, Tanzania and Pakistan, to name a few. In addition; The Lady Fatemah (a. s.) Charitable Trust sponsors about 1,000 orphans monthly through Development and Relief Foundation. A recent joint mission was the distribution of the Solar Lights in the marshlands in the southern provinces in Iraq, where more than 700 solar lights, solar panels, and battery rechargers have been distributed. LFCT has generously donated the new items, while DRF have distributed this items to the locals.
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