million patients annually
Al-Yamani: We are proceeding according to pre-prepared plans that achieve the goal in 2016, Abdullah Al-Barqawi - Previously - Riyadh: The Executive Director General of King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, Dr. Mahmoud bin Abdul Jabbar Al-Yamani, revealed that the city is preparing to receive one million visitors annually, by completing the outpatient building The five-storey building is in full swing.
Dr. Al-Yamani said during a tour of some sections of the city yesterday, accompanied by 20 representatives of various audiovisual, written and electronic media, that raising the absorptive and operational capacity in the medical sector is a difficult task and not as easy as imaginable, and that it requires lengthy studies and careful planning to bear fruit and achieve the goal. Strategic and patient service with the highest standards.
He stressed that King Fahd Medical City is proceeding according to pre-prepared plans that achieve this goal in 2016, and that it serves all regions of the Kingdom not only Riyadh, and that it has achieved several prizes that made it a pioneer in the Middle East.
Dr. Al-Yamani reviewed in front of the media the city''s achievements in numbers in most of the services it provides, and presented simplified representations of the projects to establish a number of specialized medical centers, noting that the Saudi Center for Particulate Therapy is the first center for cancer treatment with proton technology in the Middle East and represents a qualitative leap in the treatment of Oncology, as this technique used is the most recent in the world.
The Executive Director-General stressed that the City is devoid of any health practitioner holding a fake or forged certificate, affirming the establishment of a committee to classify health practitioners as part of its work to verify medical certificates and licenses for all applicants for its jobs.
The meeting was attended by the Executive Director of Medical Affairs in the city, Dr.Mustafa Youssef, who spoke about the quality standards and preventive measures that the city applies to protect patients and its mechanisms that represent a model that modern medical cities that have developed in construction work on to benefit from and transfer the rich experience that King Fahd Medical City lived and achieved during its short operational life. .
The Executive Director for Academic Affairs and Training, Dr. Fahmy Al-Senani, presented an overview of the training and programs that the city offers to its employees and to doctors and technicians at the level of the Kingdom, explaining that the city also has programs for external scholarships, and great cooperation with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
