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Midwifery Clinic

The Dubai London Clinic has the pleasure to offer a unique service to women during pregnancy and following childbirth. This will be provided by ‘shared care’ between Dr Gertrud Koster, a senior consultant of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Midwife Joanne Francis, a registered senior midwife from the United Kingdom.

The service includes:

• Initial consultation by Dr Koster (with viability scan)
• Booking history
• Booking blood tests
• Referral for ultrasound scans to date pregnancy, screening for abnormalities, anatomy/gender scan
• Nutrition and health promotion in pregnancy
• Regular antenatal consultations by Midwife to check blood pressure, urinalysis, weight gain, assess growth of baby, fetal heart check and general support and guidance.

Baby Clinic

Our Paediatrician is Board Certified in Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases. The Baby Clinic is run by our experienced senior nurses and mothers are welcome to discuss day to day problems as well as have their infants weighed and, if necessary, referred to the paediatrician. Immunizations are carried out according to local government regulations and country of origin requirements which will be adjusted accordingly.

The paediatrician carries out child development examinations at the recommended ages. She is a visiting paediatrician at the American Hospital. Dr. Kovesdi is an examiner for the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian embassies.

Mrs. Dru Campell

Dru successfully completed a Bachelor of Nursing Course in 1993 in Ballarat, Australia. She then worked primarily in the area of general surgery, including gynaecology and urology. In 2000, Dru went on to successfully complete a hospital-based midwifery course, at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. She then relocated to the United Kingdom whereby she completed additional studies in order to become registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Dru then worked as a midwife, primarily on Labour Ward at Southend Hospital for a period of three years. She then moved to London where she was employed as a senior midwife on the Birth Centre at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital.

The Birth Centre is a midwifery-led unit which cares for women and their families during pregnancy, labour and birth and during the postnatal period. The Birth Centre focuses on the promotion of physiological birth and normality. Dru was responsible for the co-ordination and facilitation of the hospital’s ‘Active Birth Classes’ which proved extremely popular and continue to be so today. She was also present at many home births and worked as a community midwife during her three years in London. Dru is currently undertaking a post graduate Bachelor of Midwifery Course with Thames Valley University in London. She holds many certificates and competencies in the area of maternity care including the Neonatal Life Support Course, conducted by the Resuscitation Council of the United Kingdom.

Dru lives in Dubai with her husband Colin who works for Emirates Engineering. She enjoys travelling, reading and the cinema.