IDU is one of the many subspecialties of the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine at King Khalid University Hospital. It comprises 5 full-time consultants, Senior Registrars, Registrars, Rotating Residents, Interns, Sub-interns and Fellows. Each year, physicians in the Unit care for more than 300 patients on an outpatient basis, admit ≥ 500 patients and provide ≥ 2,800 I.D. consultations. The IDU cooperates and integrates with the Department divisions like Endocrinology, General Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hematology/Oncology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine in King Saud Medical Complex.

Scope of Service includes:

• Patient care
• Educating medical students and training of medical and paramedical staff.
• Research

Patient Care:

The I.D.U. will provide its services through:

• Consultations: Will be provided to patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the on-call ID consultants & team in Clinical Teaching Units (CTU).


• InPatient Care: The IDU staff will provide high quality care to the ID patients with infectious diseases admitted to KSU Hospitals.


• Care for Outpatients: The IDU provides care to outpatients to 5 OPD Clinics run by ID consultants, where more than 3,000 patients are seen yearly.


• Consultation to other Specialties/Sub-specialties specialties - with KSU Hospital and ID referral from the different medical facilities within the different areas of K.S.A.