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HEALTH PROJECTS // Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plans to invest around 4.4 billion dollars over the next two years in the infrastructure of the health sector including the construction and equipment of hospitals and health centers as well as free early vaccination. Projects include the adoption of a number of operating programs for the development of the Ministry of Health facilities in addition to the adoption of new standards for hospitals’ functionality that will be imple-mented gradually in coordination with the Ministry of Finance. Preparations are being made for the establishment of a Health Investments Company after the Public Investment Fund and the Ministry of Health discuss its details that include its economic feasibility, its goals, activities and mechanism of action.

Saudi Arabia to spend 4.4 billion dollars on new health projects over the next two years

The Saudi Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah al-Rubaia announced that King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, directly approved the al-location of 4.4 billion dollars (15 billion and 100 million Saudi Riyals) for building 22 health projects including 19 integrat-ed medical complexes comprising hos-pitals and modern medical centers as well as three centers for treating growth and behavioral disorders in children, the

first of their kind to be established in the Kingdom, offering a high-standard level of care and treatment for patients suffer-ing from Autism and Hyperactivity.

Al-Rubaia explained that self-employ-ment system has been adopted in all Ministry of Health hospitals and health centers and the Ministry of Health re-quested to convert from employment on the first section to self-employment with

the Ministry of Finance.

A number of operating programs have been adopted as well to develop Ministry of Health facilities and new criteria have been approved for the operation of hos-pitals which will come into force in coor-dination with the Ministry of Finance.He also approved to establish a Health Investments Company owned by the Public Investment Fund; the details

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of which will be urgently discussed in-cluding its economic feasibility, objec-tives, activities and the mechanism of its action between the Public Invest-ment Fund and the Ministry of Health. The most important projects includeFirst: The approval of the following hospital projects:1. Raneeh Hospital in Makkah (200 bed–capacity, with housing)2. Al Kharmah Hospital in Makkah (200-bed capacity, with housing)3. Al Qunfudah Hospital in Makkah (500-bed capacity, with housing)4. Maternity and Children Hospital in Al Madinah (400-bed capacity, with housing)5. A hospital in Badr Government in Al Madinah (200-bed capacity, with housing)

6. A hospital in Almajmaáh (300-bed capacity, with housing)7. A hospital in Sharourah (300-bed ca-pacity, with housing)8. Al Qitaá Al Jabaly Hospital in Jazan (300-bed capacity, with housing)9.Maternity and Children Hospital in Mahayel Asir, (200-bed capacity, with housing)10. Al Qatif Hospital (500-bed capacity, with housing)11. A hospital in Al Ahsa (500-bed ca-pacity, with housing)12. A hospital in the west of Dammam (500-bed capacity, with housing)13. The Medical Complex in Riyadh (1000-bed capacity, with housing)14. The Medical Complex in Jeddah (1000-bed capacity, with housing)15. Al Qahmah and Al Barak Hospital

in Asir (300-bed capacity, with housing)16. Growth and Behavior Disorders Center in Riyadh17. Growth and Behavior Disorders Center in Makkah18. Growth and Behavior Disorders Center in the East Region19. Trobah Hospital in Makkah (100-bed capacity, with housing)20. Al Mahd Hospital in Al Madinah (200-bed capacity, with housing)21. Khamis Mushait Hospital in Asir (500-bed capacity, with housing)22. East Asir Hospital (200-bed capac-ity, with housing) Second: Quickly expropriating lands due to the significance to establish the following vital projects:• Maternity and Children Medical Tow-

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er in Jeddah• Eye Specialist Hospital Medical Tow-er in Jeddah• Pediatric hospital in Jeddah

Third: Coordinating with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs to expedite the abdication of lands for Prince Sul-tan Bin AbdulAziz Emergency Hospital, with a 500-bed capacity and 15 sites for comprehensive clinics in Riyadh.

Fourth: Coordinating with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs to allo-cate a part of the land specified for King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz’s Gardens, with an area of 400.000 m2, in order to es-tablish a hospital in west Riyadh with a 500-bed capacity.

Fifth: Coordinating with the Ministry of Education to specify a land for the Min-istry of Education located near Prince

Mohammed Bin AbdulAziz Hospital (East Riyadh) to establish Al-Yamama Mater-nity and Children’s Hospital, provided that the current land of Al-Yamama Hospital is submitted to the Ministry of Education or what has been agreed to between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Edu-cation regarding this matter.

Sixth: Expropriating lands near Mater-nity and Children’s Hospital in Al Qa-tif, with an area of 157.000 m2 to be 250.000 m2; in order to establish Mater-nity and Children’s Hospital in Al Qatif.

Seventh: In case of the unavailability of a suitable land for Ministry of Health from the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs or the states properties, the approval is given for purchasing a parcel of land in the nearby lands of Riyadh to establish the Mental Health Hospital in Riyadh.

Eighth: Approval of allocating SR 1.000.000.000 to meet the require-ments with regard to construction of primary health centers for which ap-propriations were made in the minis-try’s budget to buy lands for primary healthcare centers.

Ninth: The adoption of self-employ-ment system in all Ministry of Health hospitals and health centers, as well as the discussion of the Ministry of Health request to convert from employment on the first section to self-employment with the Ministry of Finance.

Tenth: The approval of a number of op-erating programs to develop Ministry of Health facilities.Eleventh: The approval of new criteria for the operation of hospitals which will come into force in a phased manner in coordination with the Ministry of Finance.


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Twelfth: Sanction to establish a Health In-vestments Company owned by the Public Investment Fund; the details of which will be urgently discussed including its eco-nomic feasibility, objectives, activities and the mechanism of its action between the Public Investment Fund and the Ministry of Health, to be escalated to His Majesty with the results in light of the system of the Public Investment Fund.

Allocation of lands for new health projectsRiyadh Governor, Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz demanded to quickly execute the royal order to allo-cate lands for the projects of Prince Sul-tan bin Abdulaziz Hospital with a 500-bed capacity, and the construction of five comprehensive clinic complexes in Riyadh that contribute to the reduction of pressure and congestion in the main hospitals. He also allocated land for the construction of Prince Sattam bin Abdul

Aziz Hospital with a 500-bed capacity in west Riyadh, and Al-Yamama Maternity and Children’s Hospital with a 500-bed capacity in addition to a medical com-plex with a 1000-bed capacity as well as a new Mental Health Hospital with a 500-bed capacity. Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz ordered to im-mediately start the execution of these important health projects that contribute to the service and healthcare of com-munity members.

Al-Jouf projectsAl-Jouf Governor Prince Fahd bin Badr bin Abdulaziz laid the foundation stones for several health projects in the region that include 7 health centers: Qara Health Center, Al-Twair Health Center, Al-Rabwa Health Center, Domat Al-Jan-dal Health Center, King Fahad Health Center, Hadraj and Daija Health Center and Hadithah Health Center. The Prince laid foundation stones for


Health Projects

Al - Jouf Medical City

Al - Jalilah Hospital

King Faisal Medical City

King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital

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five medical warehouses in Al-Jouf, and for the construction of clinic build-ings in Domat Al-Jandal Hospital, for the renovation of dialysis center with a 30-bed capacity in addition to accom-modation facilities supplied for the staff of King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital, Medical Tower, Mental Health Hospital and Tabarjal Hospital.

Prince Fahd bin Bandar also inaugu-rated a forensic medicine center in Sakaka and 7 governmental health-care centers built at a cost of more than SR 160 million.

These projects achieved by the Saudi government aim at providing its citi-zens with the best health services. Al-Jouf will expect giant projects that will complement the health services in the region and will highly upgrade its level under the constant guidance and fol-low-up of Prince Fahd bin Bandar who will put maximum effort to finish these projects along with the support of Min-ister of Health Dr. Abdullah al-Rubaia.

New hospital in Al-Ahsa500 new beds were added to the clinical capacity at the Ministry of Health Hos-pitals in Al-Ahsa with the construction

of a new hospital that will be the most modern health project. The project is of-fered by King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques who allocated SR 15 billion to build 22 healthcare projects for the Kingdom.

New health projects have been ap-proved of including Oncology center with a 100-bed capacity, Dentistry cen-ter with a 100-chair capacity; while a General Hospital has been recently approved of with a 500-bed capacity and a Maternity and Children Hospital has been expanded with a 400-bed capacity along with the current imple-mentation of hospital projects that are expected to be inaugurated at the end of this year.

Dr. Abdul Mohsen bin Nasser Al-Mel-hem, Director of Health Affairs in Al-Ahsa Governorate, appreciated the support of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and mentioned that the

500 new beds at Al-Ahsa Hospital will contribute effectively to the reduction of the patients’ suffering and will reflect positively on the health service recipient in the province and the villages nearby.

Al-Melhem said that this support com-plements the ongoing projects in the province including King Faysal Hos-pital in Hofuf, Prince Saud Bin Jalawi Hospital in Mubarraz, Omran Hospi-tal project with a 100-bed capacity, Emergency Tower project at King Fahd General Hospital, Infrastructure Devel-opment Project of King Fahd General Hospital, Al-Batha Hospital with a 50-bed capacity and receiving 20 beds at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and other health projects.

Unprecedented projects in Hafar Al-BatinHealth services in Hafar Al-Batin have recently entered an unparalleled phase of its history where Prince Saud

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bin Nayef, Emir for the Eastern Re-gion, inaugurated with the presence of the Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rubaia several giant health projects that cost over half a bil-lion Saudi Riyal. He also laid founda-tion stones for other health projects in the Province that cost more than SR 70 million.

With the opening of these projects, the Province has more than 1000 beds and Prince Saud inaugurated the two big-gest health projects that are Hafar Al Batin Central Hospital and Maternity and Children Hospital; both hospitals join King Khalid General Hospital who spent more than three years offering health services alone and these hospi-tals will finally reduce the constant pres-sure he witnessed in the past years.

In this occasion, Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah al-Rubaia said that the coun-try offers great attention and support to the health services in the Kingdom in order to provide full healthcare servic-es to the citizens in the entire Kingdom. This clearly upgraded the performance of healthcare facilities and contributed to offering special health services in line with the hopes and expectations of the leaders while meeting the health needs of the citizens.

He confirmed that this journey of giving will not stop at these achievements and the Ministry of Health is currently build-ing several health projects that cover all the regions and provinces in the Kingdom according to the Integrated and Comprehensive National Health Care Project that takes into account the principles of justice and inclusive-

ness in the distribution of health ser-vices, in addition to training programs aiming at the development of health personnel and the application of qual-ity programs in all health facilities.

Riyadh, Jeddah, Taif and Qassim Five new health projects with a 1426-bed capacity were established to provide modern medical care to the National Guard employees and their families as well as to Saudi nationals in Riyadh, Jeddah, Taif and Qassim.

Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdu-laziz, Minister of State, member of the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the National Guard stated that these new health projects were carefully studied according to the current and future needs knowing that they will pro-vide special medical care.

HE Chief Executive Officer of the Na-tional Guard Health Affairs Dr. Bandar bin Abdul Mohsen Al Knawy stated during a presentation about these projects that they include Obstet-rics & Gynecology Hospital in Riyadh with 300-bed capacity, Medicine and Neurosurgery Center in Jeddah with 176-bed capacity, King Abdullah Spe-cialized Children’s Hospital in Jeddah with 350-bed capacity, National Guard Hospital in Taif with 300-bed capacity and National Guard Hospital in Qassim with 300-bed capacity.

He also stated that Health Affairs seek to provide everything that serves the employees of the National Guard in the field of advanced health care in the various regions of the Kingdom.

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-Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA) and Al Faisaliah Medical Systems (FMS), a subsidiary of Al Faisaliah Group, celebrated the official opening of Philips Healthcare Saudi Arabia Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture to market and sell Philips Healthcare solutions and services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The partnership marks an important milestone in Philips and FMS’ mutual commitment to raise the standards of healthcare in the country.

Philips and Al Faisaliah Medical Systems Officially Open Philips Healthcare Saudi Arabia Ltd.

Deborah DiSanzo, Chief Executive Officer, Philips Healthcare and HRH Mohammed bin Khaled Al Abdullah Al Faisal, President and Chief Execu-tive Officer of the Al Faisaliah Group commemorated the launch at a ribbon cutting ceremony in Riyadh. Following the signing of the agreement in Sep-tember 2012, by Frans van Houten, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Philips and HRH Mohammed bin Khaled Al Abdullah Al Faisal.

“We are determined to move ahead and begin working with Philips to pro-vide solutions that will contribute to the advancement of healthcare ser-vices in Saudi Arabia. Through this partnership, we will be able to focus our efforts and expertise towards meeting specific requirements and challenges faced by the industry,” said HRH Mohammed bin Khaled Al Abdul-lah Al Faisal.

The partnership will combine Phil-

ips’ strong healthcare portfolio, in-cluding medical imaging systems, patient monitoring devices and clini-cal information solutions, with FMS’ recognized knowledge of the market requirements and strong position in Saudi Arabia, the largest economy in the Middle East by GDP. The Saudi Arabian healthcare market is estimat-ed to grow by 8% annually between 2013 and 2017, driven by targeted government spending on health ser-vices and hospital infrastructure.

In addition, the new company will fa-cilitate the development of the next generation of skilled Saudi healthcare professionals through dedicated edu-cation and training programs.

“As a leader in providing innovative and patient-centric healthcare solutions, Philips is intent on delivering against the unique needs of Saudi Arabia. Through the exchange of knowledge with Al Faisaliah Medical Systems, we

can bring tailored, meaningful innova-tions in products and services, includ-ing design and education to Saudi Arabia,” said Deborah DiSanzo. “This is a significant step toward positively impacting the health and well-being of the nation, as well as driving forward the government’s vision to transform their healthcare services.”

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is cur-rently undergoing a nation-wide trans-formation led by the government’s commitment to build and renew its infrastructure in the areas of health-care, education, housing, and energy diversification.

Since 1935, Philips has established a strong footprint within the Kingdom bringing innovations in healthcare, consumer health and well-being and energy efficient lighting which have contributed to the development of the economy and helped address infra-structure challenges.

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-Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHIA) and Care IQ recently announced a collaboration to provide solu-tions to address the complex management challenges faced by healthcare providers and administrators in Saudi Arabia. The announcement is in line with Philips’ global business model to combine Philips Healthcare existing portfolio of services in consulting, education, design, and other areas of strengths, to better serve customers.

Philips and Care IQ partner to provide services to address chal-lenges faced by healthcare systems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Demand for healthcare services has rapidly increased in Saudi Arabia, both in the public and private sector, as the government undertakes a nation-wide transformation to improve the quality of healthcare. According to a report by NCB Capital, the proportion of outpa-tient visits occurring at private facili-ties has increased from 19 per cent to 30 per cent in the last 10 years. In ad-dition, the Saudi Arabian Government aims to achieve a hospital beds-to-population ratio of 3.50 beds per 1000 population by 2014, which will require an additional 41,603 beds between public and private sectors.

As the demand for more hospitals and services increase, healthcare providers and administrators will re-quire innovative clinical and business solutions to improve operational and financial performance, and enhance patient outcomes from diagnosis through treatment to follow up.

“Beyond providing technology, we recognise the importance of ensuring that the technology resonates with cli-nicians using it. Through our collabo-

ration with Care IQ, customers will have access to meaningful solutions needed to improve patient outcomes, provide better value by optimizing workflows and expand access to care,” said Dick Bunschoten, General Manager of Philips Healthcare Saudi Arabia.

“As the standards of healthcare rise, providers will be able to manage more complex cases, ultimately contributing to the progression of the Kingdom’s healthcare sector.”

Many new guidelines call for in-creased levels of collaboration among physicians, especially in areas such as oncology diagnosis which depends on collaborative decision-making. Advanced interventions require co-ordination between specialties too, sometimes even in the same inter-vention lab or operating theatre. Fur-thermore, rising demand for imaging diagnosis and interventions, coupled with patients’ high expectations, re-quires optimization of patient path-ways. Through this agreement, Phil-ips and Care IQ will be able to offer

local healthcare providers customized solutions to facilitate effective col-laboration, which enable information sharing and targeted communication between clinicians, as well as improve operational effectiveness and stream-line clinical processes.

Dr. Joris van den Hurk, Founder and CEO of Care IQ said, “Up-to-date tech-nology is an enabler for services which helps make evidence-based care more viable, and more efficacious. In effect our services can help healthcare pro-viders produce improved outcomes and higher throughput, by applying in-telligence to patient pathway optimiza-tion and care planning.”

This collaboration follows Philips’ launch of Philips Healthcare Saudi Arabia Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture with Al Faisaliah Medical Systems (FMS), a subsidiary of Al Faisaliah Group, to sell Philips Healthcare solutions and services in Saudi Arabia. The partner-ship marks an important milestone in Philips and FMS’ mutual commitment to raise the standards of healthcare in the country.

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