Badr As Samaa - Atlas Medical centre - Royal Hospital - Badr As Samaa

Alhamdulillah recently i've been blessed with a baby girl and I named her Maryam after the most pious woman in history Maryam as ( mother of Issa as/ Jesus as)... My Mom told me that the name Maryam is good but she had to go through a lotta hardship and maybe my daughter will also go through a lotta hardship just because the name.. Subhanallah.. I dint take it seriously and just prayed to the Almighty to keep my daughter safe and maybe its just an old belief..
We were in Badr Samaa for a weekly visit to the pediatrician, who had asked us to visit him regularly until the baby hits the 3 kgs mark. So he said that the eyes seem to be still yellow and maybe we'll have to do blood test again to ensure the billirubin level in the blood is normal and the baby doesnt have a high level of Jaundice.
 Incase you are wondering some babies have jaundice by birth and it reduces off as they grow in days..

So when he talked about blood test my wife and mom panicked, cause the last time they did the test for my daughter the sisters (hospital staff) really messed up.. They pricked her twice and after extracting the blood they stuck the bandaid a few inches away from the actual point where they had pricked.
Really unprofessional...
We finally refused to the blood test and left the place with a little advice from the Doctor.
A lotta people have been praisin Atlas Hospital and we decided to pay a visit to the pediatrician there.. When we visited him, he asked us to do the blood test immediately, so we were worried again but this time decided to go for it. When the results came we were informed that the bilirubin level was too high and hence they repeated the test. The result was same again and the Doc. informed us that the level is 35.xx mg/dl where as normal should be below 10 mg/dl and referred us to the Royal Hospital immediately.

So our worries increased ..... We entered the Royal Hospital and the doctors examined her and suggested they would have to do a blood test again as they do not believe in the report from Atlas as it didnt seem tht the bilirubin level was so high. More pain for my poor daughter, But as they say if a little pain brings about more good then you'll have to go for it and hence we did the blood test.. To our relief we discovered that the actual level is only 20-21 mg/dl and the report from ATLAS MEDICAL CENTRE was highly exaggerated, we were misguided..crapp...We breath a seigh of relief, But not for long as 21 mg/dl is still a high level but not as high as 30s mg/dl...
They decided to admit her and as we are expats we were expected to go meet the cashier first as he had already kept my ID card as a security so that i run away without paying the bills..Funny people.. When we met the cashier and we informed him that the patient has to be admitted he rudely asked for a deposit of 300 R.O. I was like wat the F*%k?? He was so presistent that he refused to return my ID card until i pay the deposit.. Really bad treatment for the expats I must say.I really didnt expect such a treatment in a hospital like ROYAL HOSPITAL.. Luckily my brother the had cash at the moment and he helped me out and paid the cashier 200/- which he accepted. May the Almighty reward my brother and make things easy for him..inshallah.
My daughter was diagnosed with Photo therapy for two days after which the Bilirubin level came down to 18mg/dl... Though it was still high but the Doctors decided to dischage her and asked us to do a blood test again in 24 hrs at any private clinic.
The next day we decided to go back to the Good Old Badr As Samaa- Al Khodh and visted the same old pediatrician who asked us to do the blood test immediately... This time the level had increased to 19mg/dl... The doctor showed signs of disagreement with the decision of the doctors at the Royal Hospital to discharge my daughter at the level of 18mg/dl..Again confusing us and diagnosed the poor little girl to the photo therapy once more...
Incase you are wondering what photo therapy is, Its just like lying under the Sun with your eyes covered....They use UV tubelights and keep the baby under it with her eyes covered...Trust me when i say this no baby likes that treatment.. They get really really irritated and my daughter was no different.

So my sweet little daughter was under the photo therapy for the next 36 hours after which the bilirubin levels had come down to about 11mg/dl which the doctor said is the safe zone and discharged her.
Meanwhil due to so much exposure to heat my daughter developed rashes on her face and was really suffering with pain and irritation combined.
We reached home and decided to clean the rashes with rose water and apply the cream which the doc. had prescribed.. But the rashes were still increasing and she was crying frequently. When we got back to the Doctor the next day they said the baby has got some allergy with baby oil and prescribed another cream.. Alhamdulillah after applying that she has felt a bit of relief now and is having a sound sleep .
I felt really sad not just because we were bounced from hospital to hospital like fools, not because the financial expenses were really high in this run BUT mainly because the pain the poor kid had to go through..
Please do pray for her, that she gets well soon and be careful with hospitals in town...