{"id":987525742,"date":"2022-06-22T03:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/saudi-arabia-saudi-national-health-insurance-center-offers-free-insurance-coverage-to-all-citizens\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:24:00","slug":"saudi-arabia-saudi-national-health-insurance-center-offers-free-insurance-coverage-to-all-citizens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/saudi-arabia-saudi-national-health-insurance-center-offers-free-insurance-coverage-to-all-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: Saudi National Health Insurance Center offers free insurance coverage to all citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s National Health Insurance Center<\/strong> will provide <strong>free insurance<\/strong> for those<strong> covered by government health services<\/strong> in the Kingdom, said Mohammed Al-Abdulaali, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Abdulaali said that the health transformation and the decision recently issued is an important step within multiple stages to achieve full health transformation in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>coverage also includes unemployed people<\/strong> affiliated with the unemployment insurance scheme Saned and others, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding services is an element, but regulation and supervision needs focus and funding, and therefore a channel that does this, to achieve the highest levels of health strategic goals in the Kingdom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Saudi Cabinet approved<\/strong> on June 2 <strong>the establishment of Health Holding Co.<\/strong> and the charter of the <strong>National Health Insurance Center<\/strong>, to raise the effectiveness of the health system, the Kingdom\u2019s health minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>The article was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2097016\/business-economy\">Arab News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about health financing and social health protection in Saudi Arabia? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup><em>Image: asia insurance review<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s National Health Insurance Center will provide free insurance for those covered by government health services in the Kingdom, said Mohammed Al-Abdulaali, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. Al-Abdulaali said that the health transformation and the decision recently issued is an important step within multiple stages to achieve full health transformation in the coming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987526960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987525742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987526960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}