When to Call A Doctor on Call?

Written by Dr. Salim Olabi | Medically reviewed by Editorial Team
Last updated on: July 09, 2019

The service of doctor on call is an idea for people who, by their heath condition, need good health care at their own comfort. It provides an inclusive vision of your health, making sure constant health care all over the medical process by experienced and qualified doctors on call in Dubai as offered at Health Call in Dubai. Why have these particular services recently become popular all over Dubai? There are three main factors: traffic difficulties to go to a health clinic, due to lack of time or due to severe pains that make it impossible to travel. There involve situations of illness that do not require attention in a specialized or emergency center and that allows the patient to be cared for in the comfort of his home. Doctor at home A home doctor is a professional who travels to a patient’s home or place of residence to make the visit. The professional must have the expertise to deal with the condition in which the patient is treated, assessing the general environment and physical-logistical environment. For this, the vision from the training and from the experience in home health care is very different from the training and hospital experience. Expertise for example family medicine, Geriatrics is what facilitates this worldwide idea of health care, whose training is complemented by comprehensive experience in houses. For what patients or diseases do you need doctors on call in Dubai? Home health care is essential when, due to certain pathologies or diseases, the patient is not able to reach the doctor’s office or hospital or that displacement is a major loss of comfort. It can be eventual or definitive, due to a chronic illness for instance. Some of the conditions in which medical assistance may be required at home are:

  • Hospital post-discharge convalescence: After a de-compensation or after an intervention, for example.
  • Chronic diseases that results in a certain degree of dependence: Respiration disease, cardiac, neuron disease, etc.
  • Limitations of mobility of various cause: Joint pathology, among others complex diseases.

Medical Services of Home Medicine At a medical care level, it’s about making a full check-up of the patient’s health status, to evaluate their requirements by area and establish a method of care and follow-up. It can be required in the following conditions:

  • Care and medical supervising of chronic pathologies
  • Attention and medical monitoring of convalescence processes
  • Attention and medical follow-up of de-compensation or exacerbations
  • Post-surgical care and follow-up
  • Planned prevention promoting quality of life

Additionally, service of doctors on call in Dubai can be complemented with:

Because our patients come first and we want to be closer to their medical care, the Doctors and nurses of Health Call also offers its medical care service in the comfort of your home, thus expanding the accessibility of our services. This service is aimed at the management of acute diseases of low complexity by highly trained doctors on call in Dubai for this type of care, which combine good practice with a warm treatment to our patients. We offer:

  • Medical care at home.
  • Management of first dose and emergency kit
  • Taking samples for laboratory at home.
  • Attention and care 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

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