07/06/2016
(Aldandas) in a meeting with members of health committee of Asharqia Chamber:
Deputy consultant of Minister of Health, and general supervisor for the private health sector, Dr. Fayyad Ben Asaad Al Dandas has stressed the ministry's keenness to overcoming the obstacles of processing business for the private sector through the implementation of suggestions of modifications in some systems, and automating the procedures, focusing on the principle of partnership and improving the level of quality by the providers of health services, because the private health sector is an integral part of the health care system in the Kingdom part.
This was during his first meeting on Sunday morning (06/05/2016)with members of the Health Committee and moderated by Vice Chairman of
Asharqia Chamber Health Committee administration chairman Mohammed Faraj, where he said that our goal in the ministry is to enhance the health services, because our good in this sector is the human being and his health, and among the steps in this way is to achieve a partnership with the private sector, and the removal of obstacles to the achievement of this partnership, and from here that the work is under way to the transformation to the electronic transactions, where they will be launching 126 online service in the coming period.
He stressed that the ministry is considering all the procedures for the organization of health services from the integrated health care perspective, and considers the patient's health and safety as a first concern, and therefore everything that achieves this purpose, the ministry will interact with it and support .. And according to this, the ministry believes that the presence of the Saudi qualified doctor is as governance for hospitals, and to ensure continuity of service with the required quality, especially since Saudi doctors are being testified for their professionalism and qualification.
Aldandas has excluded any essential effect regarding providing service by payment in the government health centers on the performance and quality of service in the private sector, because the private sector has witnessed in recent years a steady growth and the criterion in this, is the level of service and quality provided and satisfying the patient who is conscious and asks for good service, from anywhere, the decision here is not a public or private center it is a decision of the consultative himself.
He pointed that there are gaps in the health services, it will be the private sector's role in filling them. As it is expected that the private sector contribution to rise to nearly 40% over the next decade, compared to 20% at present, the ministry is looking forward to a larger contribution to meet the demand for health service.
