ShareKUWAIT: The Assistant Undersecretary for External Health Services Affairs at the Ministry of Health, Dr Yaqoub Al-Tammar, toured the facilities of the Health Assurance Hospitals Company (DHAMAN). The tours included visits to the DHAMAN hospital and its primary healthcare centers, where he was briefed on the company's efforts and growth to launch the operation of its health network in the upcoming months.
Al-Tammar was welcomed and joined by the CEO, Thamer Arab, and several company officials. The tour included a visit to the primary healthcare center in the Dhajeej area, where he met the medical staff operating it. Dhajeej healthcare center is amongst the currently operational centers that include family medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, radiology, and laboratory clinics.
Al-Tammar then proceeded to the DHAMAN Healthcare Center in the Fahaheel area, which is expected to open during the next month and was briefed about the center's facilities, and modern equipment. DHAMAN officials then showcased the company's operational goals, achievements, current and future plans.
The tours also included a visit to the DHAMAN hospital in Ahmadi, where he was able to visit the emergency and operations departments, dental, outpatient clinics, laboratories, radiology and other facilities distributed over the five hospital floors.
At the conclusion of the tour, Dr Yaqoub Al-Tammar expressed his contentment with what he observed at DHAMAN hospitals and primary healthcare centers. All equipment and operations are compatible with the requirements of the Ministry of Health and within the international health standards. He noted that DHAMAN operations will contribute to easing the administrative and financial burden on the government and will also reflect positively on citizens who will get better services due to the relief of overcrowding in the Ministry's facilities.
Meanwhile, DHAMAN CEO, Thamer Arab, confirmed that the company is focused currently on completing the preparations for the opening of its hospitals by providing all the medical staff, services and equipment necessary to operate and start receiving the beneficiaries to achieve company objectives as stated in the development plan, the vision of a New Kuwait and the government's work program in developing the health sector.
DHAMAN is also the first healthcare institution in the Middle East to adopt the public-private partnership (PPP) model, to diversify sources of income and supporting the Kuwaiti economy.
It will work within the framework of an integrated system of health maintenance organization (HMO), which will be implemented for the first time in the Middle East, where the system focuses on providing preventive healthcare and community health awareness programs, encouraging preventive health through health assurance plans, and developing several primary healthcare centers and hospitals.
The Company continues to develop its projects, which will soon include two hospitals and five primary healthcare centers. DHAMAN's healthcare centers in Hawalli, Dhajeej, Farwaniya and Jahra are operational as an initial stage in the preparation for achieving the vision of the company according to the Ministry of Health and concerned authorities.
DHAMAN is scheduled to open Jahra and Ahmadi Hospital at the end of this year, where it will provide health assurance services to over 1.8 million beneficiaries of expatriates working in the private sector and their families, as stipulated by law, in addition to special services for those not covered by the law.
