The Healthcare System of Saudi Arabia

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Overview of the Healthcare System in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The Ministry of Health is responsible for the supervision of healthcare and hospitals in both the public and private sectors. The system offers universal healthcare coverage.

The healthcare system has two tiers. One is a network of primary healthcare centers and clinics that provide preventive, prenatal, emergency, and basic services, as well as mobile clinics for remote rural areas. The second tier is represented by the hospitals and specialized treatment facilities located in urban areas.

In 1970, the first of the government’s five-year plans to promote development in a variety of areas, including healthcare, was instituted. In healthcare, the plan only meant establishing the necessary infrastructure of hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, laboratories, and research facilities, but hiring expatriate staff to work in the facilities and encouraging Saudis to pursue careers in the healthcare field.

In 1970, there were 74 hospitals with 9,039 beds; by 2005, there were 350 hospitals with nearly 48,000 beds. The Ministry of Health operates 62% of the hospitals and 53% of the clinics and centers; the remaining facilities are operated by government agencies, including the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard, the Ministry of the Interior, and several other ministries, as well as by private entities.

More: http://www.hziegler.com/locations/middle-east/saudi-arabia/articles/healthcare-system-of-saudi-arabia.html

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1. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the US considered its citizens to be this important?!

This is what government can do when it puts its citizens FIRst!

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2. Do the Saudis pay outrageous deductibles and Fee increases?

Partial payments, co-payments, deductibles, limitations, refusals, out-of-network, out-of-time, out-of-sight.

Non-essential required fees, Bed fees, floor fees, patient fees, parking fees, x-ray fees, courier fees, blood test fees, xerox copy fees, and/or split payment fees Plus $2 a month. Rama Lama ding dong and a partridge in a pear tree.

Gaawd Bless our Congress and Health Care in the USA... it's not just for the wealthy anymore.

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3. Kick

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4. second that motion

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[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Difference being, corporations run our government here.

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6. kick