Emergency Medicine
A 24×7 casualty with immediate triage, emergency admission, emergency surgery and critical care support.
About the department
The emergency service is open every hour of the year. Patients are triaged on arrival so that the most serious are attended first, and registration formalities are completed alongside treatment rather than before it.
The casualty has direct access to the operation theatre, intensive care beds, imaging and the laboratory, so a patient who needs urgent surgery — an obstructed hernia, a perforated appendix, an obstructed kidney or an emergency caesarean — can move straight through without being transferred elsewhere.
Families are kept informed at each step, and where a case needs a facility we do not have, we stabilise the patient first and arrange a referral with the records in hand.
Treatments and services
- Immediate triage and resuscitation
- Emergency admission and stabilisation
- Emergency surgery
- Critical care and monitoring
- Obstetric emergencies
- Management of acute urinary retention and renal colic
Conditions we treat
- Trauma and road traffic injuries
- Acute abdominal pain
- Acute urinary retention
- Obstetric emergencies
- Severe infection and dehydration
- Poisoning and acute medical crises
Procedures performed
- Resuscitation and airway support
- Emergency catheterisation
- Wound care and suturing
- Emergency laparotomy and laparoscopy
- Emergency caesarean section
- Intravenous fluid and oxygen therapy
When to consult
Book a consultation with this department if you notice any of the following. If symptoms are severe or sudden, come to the emergency department instead.
- Come directly — no appointment is needed for an emergency
- Call ahead if you can so the team is ready when you arrive
- Bring any earlier prescriptions, scans and reports
- For a road accident or fall, do not move the patient unnecessarily
Equipment
- Resuscitation bay with defibrillator and monitors
- Ventilator support in the intensive care unit
- Round-the-clock X-ray, ultrasound and laboratory
- Operation theatre available at short notice
Facilities
- Casualty open 24 hours, every day
- Emergency admission without prior appointment
- On-call surgeon, physician and obstetrician
- Attendant waiting area beside the casualty