According to Bisha Health Affairs, Sabt Al-Alaya Hospital has inaugurated an endoscopy unit which receives patients with gastrointestinal diseases on Sundays to examine them and determine ones in need of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and the procedure is done on Tuesdays. "The service is provided in the clinic as per a regular schedule and after accurate examination medical reports will be given to the patients" adds the Affairs.
It is noted that Sabt Al-Alaya Hospital (with a 100-bed capacity) provides its services to citizens of Belgarn Province, and during last year, received 89,518 patients including 64,957 at emergency department and 24,561 at outpatient clinics, and performed 460 surgeries.
On the other hand, in a qualitative shift, the Ministry of Health (MoH) is expanding its telemedicine services. In so doing, the (e-health) - Seha - App will cover all the Kingdom. The App provides visual medical consultations and allows all citizens anywhere to have face-to-face medical consultations with their doctors across the Kingdom.
MOH seeks to secure more users of the App to enable them more significantly to access visual medical consultations on their smartphones. Also, MOH endeavors to employ cutting-edge technologies to enhance effective communication with service-beneficiaries, and to allow them get the needed specialized medical consultations. The App is designed to enable audio-video communication from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m. during working days, as well as weekends from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. Accordingly, users can login into the application, communicate directly with a specialist, and have their cases diagnosed through the application. Hence, the specialist answers users' inquiries, then provides the needed medical consultation and the necessary medical procedure. The App. is free and can be downloaded on Google play and the App store.
Notably, MOH has recently launched a number of quality service programs to develop work mechanisms and to boost performance. This will in turn help improve health services provided to citizens and secure their satisfaction.