Al-Ahsa Health Affairs announced launching
new Anti-Smoking Clinics in its Health Centers, to provide preventive and
therapeutic activities and events to eliminate all types of tobacco use in
Al-Ahsa, using the state-of-the-art techniques.
Al-Ahsa Affairs has secured all needed
preparations to received beneficiaries through organizing professional training
programs for doctors and practitioners to operate the clinics. In addition, the
new clinics have been geographically distributed across the province's sectors
to ensure access to the largest population possible. Thus, Al-Hofouf clinics
cover Al-Bandariah, Al-Faisaliah and King Fahad District primary healthcare
centers. Also, Al-Mebrez sector includes Sho'bah, Ghesaibah, Julaijilah and
Al-Oyoun primary healthcare centers. Al-Omran sector covers Al-Omran, Munaizilah
and Al-Helailah primary healthcare centers.
It is worth noting that the Anti-Smoking
Program - Al-Ahsa served 1,174 individuals wishing to quit smoking in 1438H.,
with 28% of registered persons already quit smoking. Also, the program organized
115 awareness activities over 130 days in the same year.
The Ministry of Health, in line with its
contribution to achieve the target of the National Transformation Program 2020,
has launched the initiative of (reforming and restructuring the primary
healthcare), as part of 40 initiatives designed to develop and improve the
Kingdom's healthcare services and facilities to meet the needs of the community
and the expectations of our righteous leader - may Allah protect him.
This new initiative aims to provide advanced
outstanding primary healthcare services, to boost satisfaction with this
sector's services, and to foster the outpatients' trust in health services. The
initiative also seeks to restore confidence in primary healthcare centers, given
the growing numbers of outpatients, to ensure accessibility to all beneficiaries
to reduce the burden on different health professionals, to boost the preventive
measures, and provide facility-based health services, in addition to reducing
congestion on emergency departments and outpatient clinics.
MOH has recently launched the new design
templates of primary healthcare centers at As-Sulaimaniyah, Al-Wadi, Al-Khaleej,
Al-Murabba and Al-Mansourah. All are model centers. Also, all MOH's centers will
be rehabilitated with similar templates. New centers will be set up. The news
centers will provide all preventive, health and community services, while
complying with CBAHI's standards. The services include consultation clinics,
primary mental clinics, as well as other services such as immunization,
maternity care, family medicine and early detection of chronic diseases. Also,
the community will be engaged by creating community council to take part in
planning health services. Each center will incorporate a training center for
family medicine fellowship with a unified e-record database. The new centers
feature a modern architectural style the required safety supplies. It’s noted
that the work is currently underway to start the stage of mega centers according
to MOH-approved medial facility identity.