Stroke Service at Hamad Medical achieves prestigious reaccreditation

Doha: The Stroke Service at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has recently successfully achieved Joint Commission International (JCI) re-accreditation as the primary stroke center. This remarkable achievement across the whole spectrum of the service was recognized recently in April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This reaccreditation is also important as it was the first of its kind to be done virtually at HMC.

The Stroke Service at HMC was first accredited by Joint Commission International in November 2014 as the first ever Primary Stroke Center within the middle east and the service was reaccredited in 2018. Dr. Ahmed Own, Acting Director of HMC’s Neurosciences Institute said he was proud of how teams across the entire Stroke Service have not only developed in recent times, but also how they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.