KUWAIT CITY, Oct 19: Some officials at the Health Insurance Hospitals Company (Dhaman) visited the Dhaman Hospital in Ahmadi and Daman Fahaheel Center to check the readiness of the health insurance system in the presence of a group of doctors with various medical specializations. Director of Medical Services at Dhaman Dr. Anwar Al-Rashed disclosed that Dhaman was established in 2014 as per the Amiri directive to include it in the National Development Plan (New Kuwait 2035), as a partner and supporter of the health system in all related fields. He affirmed that the system contributes to providing integrated healthcare services by managing a comprehensive system of primary healthcare centers and hospitals with high capacity; in addition to a wide range of support medical services, such as medical laboratories, radiology centers, pharmaceutical services, ambulance and medical training facilities. He said Dhaman is the first healthcare facility in the Middle East founded through public-private partnership (PPP), in addition to the first public subscription for a healthcare facility in Kuwait. He revealed it is the first in the region that offers medical services through the integrated health maintenance system (HMO).

“Once the Dhaman health system is fully operational, it will generate more than 6,000 jobs for Kuwaitis and others in the new healthcare industry,” he stressed. Member of the Board of Directors of Dhaman and Advisor to the CEO Khaled Al-Abdulghani stated that “Dhaman Hospital in Ahmadi is considered a great edifice and a national project that makes us proud as Kuwaitis. It competes with international hospitals in terms of building, area, medical equipment, and professional and administrative technical staff.”

Al-Abdulghani disclosed that the company owns Ahmadi Hospital, a hospital in Jahra and a number of centers in different parts of the country to cater to the largest number of people benefiting from its services, not to mention being a distinguished medical architectural edifice. He added the health insurance hospitals constitute a health system equipped with the most advanced medical devices, but it is not the end of the company’s aspirations. “We are continuing towards more development and progress. In the future, citizens will be jealous of expatriates, because of the medical equipment prepared for them in the health insurance hospitals. The operation of health insurance hospitals will reduce pressure and congestion in government hospitals,” he asserted.

Director of the Medical Engineering Department Eng. Hussein Al-Sayegh confirmed that all the facilities and devices of the insurance hospitals have been inspected and approved by the concerned authorities, through 15 committees that reviewed and audited everything related to the operational capabilities of the insurance hospitals to obtain the necessary licenses. Al-Sayegh pointed out that the added value of the Daman system includes many modern medical equipment and devices according to international standards and in line with the number of targeted beneficiaries of expatriates in the State of Kuwait to support the national health system through distinguished services at Dhaman centers and hospitals as part of the economic reform plan and the New Kuwait 2035 vision.

By Marwa Al-Bahrawi
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff