Overview:
Saudi Home Health Care Day aims to get all community different groups be aware of home health care services, their eligible groups, and how to apply or register therein according to specific criteria and work mechanism.
This service is provided by Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH), and is not limited to serving the elderly, but includes:
- Follow-up of patients with chronic diseases.
- Providing intravenous therapy services.
- Caring and prevention for bed sore patients.
- Caring for enteral feeding tube patients.
- Palliative care.
- Providing physiotherapy services.
- Caring for patients with urinary catheters.
- Non-ambulatory transportation.
- Laboratory analyzes.
- Psychosocial support.
- Providing medicines and medical supplies to patients.
- Educating and training patients and their companions.
- Providing nutritional supplements.
Official Date:
Globally: Dec. 3rd, 2023
Locally: Jumada Al-awwal 19th, 1445H