The Ministry of Health is streamlining medical care to facilitate health services with an integrated medical faculty. This is to cope with the emergencies cases on account of the rising number of road accident fatalities on Makkah-Jeddah road.
The bride of the Red Sea and gateway to the two holy mosques and religious sites, Jeddah also holds the unenviable reputation of having the highest number of road accident deaths annually.
Such accidents peak in the pilgrimage season posing a challenge to the existing government hospitals that are unable to cope with the growing number of emergency cases.
Dr. Sami Badawood, director of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the Jeddah governorate, said that a hospital to deal exclusively with emergency cases has been sanctioned at a cost of SR150 million. The 200-bed hospital will cater to patients with trauma and provide instant medical care to emergency cases. |
