Hi Davinci73, sorry for the very late response. I dont know how much response will mean to you now. Anyways I'll reply to your questions one-by-one:
1) My wife got epidural
2) In the gynaecology roster at Al Ahli Hospital, Dr Rizvi is on call a few days a week. Other days on-call doctors are Dr Dia and Dr Sujatha (I think). Therefore, depending on the day a woman requires surgery, the on-call doctor is called and he/she performs the surgery. In my wife's case, Dr Dia performed the C-Section as he was on-call doctor that day. Both Dr Dia and Dr Rizvi are very competent doctors, so I dont have any issues with any of them.
3) As what I remember, most stiches got dissolved apart from one or two. We went to the hospital, a week after delivery, for the remaining two stiches to be cut. Its a quick and painless process (virtually take 1 min for the doctor to do it)
4) At Al-Ahli Hospital, post C-Section care was excellent. I have no complains. However they did do one thing incorrect. They did not ask me or my wife about feeding our baby and they fed him with formula milk with a bottle directly. This caused major issues with my wife as she wanted my baby to breastfeed from Day 1. Also it makes it difficult for the baby to switch to breastfeeding after taking bottle milk. In all developed countries, they usually ask one of the parent about the choice to breastfeed or bottlemilk?
5) At Hamad Hospital, the pregnant women, if not Qataris, have to wait for 2 to 4 hours or more before they are seen by the doctor. I would recommend never to go to Hamad Hospital unless one can totally not afford the private hospitals.
6) Al-Ahli emergency is excellent. They take care of the patient straightaway (not even 2 minutes delay). They even asked me to fill all the forms later and first they attended to the patient. There are always doctors and nurses there, and the nurses at Al Ahli are almost as capable as doctors.
Hi Davinci73, sorry for the very late response. I dont know how much response will mean to you now. Anyways I'll reply to your questions one-by-one:
1) My wife got epidural
2) In the gynaecology roster at Al Ahli Hospital, Dr Rizvi is on call a few days a week. Other days on-call doctors are Dr Dia and Dr Sujatha (I think). Therefore, depending on the day a woman requires surgery, the on-call doctor is called and he/she performs the surgery. In my wife's case, Dr Dia performed the C-Section as he was on-call doctor that day. Both Dr Dia and Dr Rizvi are very competent doctors, so I dont have any issues with any of them.
3) As what I remember, most stiches got dissolved apart from one or two. We went to the hospital, a week after delivery, for the remaining two stiches to be cut. Its a quick and painless process (virtually take 1 min for the doctor to do it)
4) At Al-Ahli Hospital, post C-Section care was excellent. I have no complains. However they did do one thing incorrect. They did not ask me or my wife about feeding our baby and they fed him with formula milk with a bottle directly. This caused major issues with my wife as she wanted my baby to breastfeed from Day 1. Also it makes it difficult for the baby to switch to breastfeeding after taking bottle milk. In all developed countries, they usually ask one of the parent about the choice to breastfeed or bottlemilk?
5) At Hamad Hospital, the pregnant women, if not Qataris, have to wait for 2 to 4 hours or more before they are seen by the doctor. I would recommend never to go to Hamad Hospital unless one can totally not afford the private hospitals.
6) Al-Ahli emergency is excellent. They take care of the patient straightaway (not even 2 minutes delay). They even asked me to fill all the forms later and first they attended to the patient. There are always doctors and nurses there, and the nurses at Al Ahli are almost as capable as doctors.
Hope the above info helps.