MOH provides home-medicine services for beneficiaries. This includes:
- Caring for patients with chronic diseases
- Caring for patients with bedsores
- Palliative care
- Intravenous therapy services
- Physiotherapy services
- Caring for urinary catheterization patients
- Caring for enteral nutrition patients
- Laboratory tests
- Delivery of medicines and medical supply to patients
- Delivery of supplements
- Non-ambulatory transportation
- Psychological and social support
- Educating patients and their families
Home healthcare services are not limited to the elderly, but cover other groups, including:
- Patients with cancer
- Patients who've undergone surgeries
- Alzheimer’s disease patients
- Patients who’ve experienced car accidents or head injuries
- Psychiatric patients
- Bedridden patients
- Wounded people, and patients with bedsores
- Patients with respiratory conditions
- Urinary catheterization patients
- Enteral nutrition patients
- Patients administered antibiotics intravenously
- Patients with hypertension
- Diabetics
- Patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)
- Patients undergoing physiotherapy and rehabilitation
- Patients with thrombophilia
- Patients with hiatal hernia
Access to Home Healthcare Services: Procedures:
Inside hospital:
- The patient shall be referred by the hospital to the Home Healthcare Department. The referral shall indicate the patient’s condition, and the type of service required 72 hours before discharge.
- An initial assessment of the patient's condition shall be conducted by the Home Healthcare Department.
- The patient shall be visited a week after discharge.
- The patient’s needs shall be met withing a week.
Outside hospital:
- A completed request shall be submitted to the hospital’s Home Healthcare Department.
- A medical report of no less than 3 months.
- Photocopy of the national ID.
- Photocopy of the treatment plan.
- A healthcare provider shall stay with the patient at home.
- If requirements are fulfilled, the request shall be considered.
- The patient shall receive a visit within a week, in order to determine his or her needs.