Saudi National Health Insurance Center offers free insurance coverage to all citizens: Official

  • 6/5/2022
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia"s National Health Insurance Center will provide free insurance for those covered by government health services in the Kingdom, Al-Arabiya TV reported, quoting 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 years. The coverage also includes unemployed people affiliated with the unemployment insurance scheme Saned and others, he said. “Providing 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,” he said. The Saudi Cabinet approved on June 2 the establishment of Health Holding Co. and the charter of the National Health Insurance Center, to raise the effectiveness of the health system, Saudi Press Agency quoted the Kingdom’s health minister as saying.

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