chairman of the Board of Directors of the Health Cluster in the Al-Madinah area and an advisor to the Minister

His Excellency the Minister of Health, Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, issued a ministerial decision that included the appointment of Dr. Mahmoud bin Abdul Jabbar Al-Yamani as the founding president of the Board of Directors of the Health Cluster in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah region and an advisor to His Excellency the Minister of Health for a period of one year, starting from the date of this decision.

The decision ensured that the founding president would carry out the following tasks during an appointment.

Nominating the remaining members of the Board of Directors of the Health Cluster and raising the advisory committee for the project of the Health Holding Company to study and submit the recommendation to the authority holder.

Nominating the planning committee concerned with setting up plans for establishing a health cluster and raising the advisory committee for the project of the Health Holding Company to study and make recommendations to the authority holder

Supervising the preparation of the two-year plan and the five-year plan for the gathering.

Nominating the CEO of the gathering and raising of the advisory committee for the project of the Health Holding Company to study and make the recommendation to the authority holder.

Adherence to the Governance Manual and the Transformation Guide into an Integrated Care Organization approved by the Health Holding Company Project Advisory Committee.

The decision urged the advisory committee for the project of the Health Holding Company and all sectors of the ministry in cooperation with the founding president to facilitate his work and help him accomplish the tasks entrusted to him efficiently and effectively.

It should be noted that the Health Cluster comes from the institutional transformation initiative that aims to separate the provision of health services from the Ministry and transfer them to a state-owned holding company, which includes a number of health clusters, which allows the Ministry to focus on its regulatory and supervisory role in accordance with the best international standards and global practices.

It is noteworthy that Dr. Mahmoud Al-Yamani is a consultant neurosurgeon, obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from King Saud University, and a master''s degree in executive health management from the University of Washington and the American Board in Neurosurgery and a Canadian fellowship in a subspecialty in neurosurgery and skull base surgery.

The last position of Dr. Al-Yamani was the CEO of the Second Health Cluster in Riyadh. He also previously worked as the Director of the National Center for Neurosciences, and he was the Executive Director of King Fahd Medical City.