According to recent statistics by Riyadh Health Affairs, over the past year (2018), its hospitals served 2,612,949 emergencies, with 340,935 critical cases and injuries, in addition to 1,659,519 outpatients. Also, the hospitals performed 180,94 surgeries, with 129,45 one-day surgeries.
These steps come in line with MOH's efforts to achieve one of its objectives in the National Transformation Program (NTP) 2020, in terms of improving the health care provided before hospitalization and at emergency and ICU departments of main hospitals. Also, this goal, which is associated with one of the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030, is to improve the quality of both preventive and therapeutic healthcare services.