A radio-wave monitoring system that enables new mothers to ensure they leave the hospital with the right baby, a photo-sharing service for X-rays and an infectious disease alert service are among the dozens of new information technology (IT) services being used by medical practitioners in Saudi Arabia today. With record spending on health care...
While the sheer scale of its hospital building programme is testament to the increase in the quantity of the Kingdom’s health facilities, money is also being spent on improving the quality of services. New cutting-edge facilities are being created to put the most recent technology to use and advances are being made in research in both medicine...
Wealth creation and job opportunities may be far from the minds of academics embarking on research, but scientific experiments can produce unexpected economic benefits. This was certainly the case in 1982, when a Saudi science project on prawns spawned a firm that now occupies 250 sq km and employs 2500 people. Thirty years after it was...
Government expenditure on health and social care in Saudi Arabia has more than doubled in the last five years. In 2014 the state health sector will receive SR108bn ($28.8bn), as compared to the SR52.3bn ($13.94bn) earmarked for 2009. The year-on-year increase in budget allocation is 8%, the second highest of any sector reported, and its share...
Government expenditure on health and social care in Saudi Arabia has more than doubled in the last five years, and in 2014 the state health sector will receive SR108bn ($28.8bn), as compared to the SR52.3bn ($13.94bn) earmarked for 2009. While the health care sector faces challenges, from a growing population and increasing levels of non-communicable diseases, government spending on infra-...
With the government committing unprecedented levels of funding to increasing the coverage of its national public health insurance programme, positive effects are being felt throughout the domestic health sector. The Philippine experiment of combining public health care spending with private sector delivery continues to evolve. As health care...
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