About Us
Based on the concept of providing total healthcare under one roof, Ibn Sina Medical Centre offers outpatient services in several medical and surgical disciplines as well as Dentistry and Family practice. These are shortly to be complemented by a wide array of ancillary services, which will include radiology and clinical laboratory.
At Ibn Sina Medical Centre great care has been taken in ensuring that the best equipments for diagnosis and treatment are made available.
Furthermore by practicing evidence based medicine, our qualified medical professionals, at Ibn Sina Medical Centre strive to offer the most predictable treatment in an optimal and ethical practice environment.
IBN SINA
Avicena (Ibn-Sina)
“ Medicine is a science from which one learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what is not, in order to preserve good health when it exists and restore it when it is lacking.” From “The Canon of Medicine” Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina was born in Central Asia in 980. He was a philosopher, astronomer and poet, but gained immense skill and knowledge in the field of medicine. So much so that at the age of 17 he cured the King of Bukhara of an illness no other physician had been able to touch. As a reward for his service, the young physician was allowed access to the King’s royal Library where he furthered his studies.
When only 20 he was known as the most learned person of his time. He wrote 68 books on theology and philosophy, 11 on astronomy and science, 16 on medicine and four on poetry. His original contribution to medicine included description of guinea worm, anthrax, lock jaw (tetanus), pleurisy, diabetes, oral anesthesia, animal experimentation, malaria. Among many other things he gave a good account f the relationship between psychology and health, which modern medicine has only acknowledged in fairly recent times. He also provided the most comprehensive treatment of pharmacology ever, including descriptions of 760 drugs and their uses.
His most famous work was “The Canon of Medicine” which has been called the most famous medical textbook in history. In the 12th century Ibn Sina’s book was translated into Latin and became the most popular and widely used medical text book in Europe for the next 500 years serving as the foundation of medical learning in universities, to only be replaced by the new science which emerged from the Renaissance.
