According to Hafr al-Batin Health Affairs, in 1438H, 6,950 home medicine visits were paid to 642 patients. Also, the Ministry of Health (MOH) supported patients with 106 medical supplies, including electric beds, baby seats, and wheelchairs for special needs patients.
The home medicine program provides home healthcare services to patients by a highly qualified medical team. The program enhances the efforts of families to seamlessly follow-up their patients till they recover, in addition to providing much-needed beds for new inpatients.
The programs target palliative and mental care patients, diabetics, bed sore patients, tube feeding cases, neurodegenerative and stroke patients. The program also offers a set of facility-based medical services and activities (therapeutic, preventive, rehabilitative, educative and social) to certain patients amidst their families, according to well-defined standards and mechanism.