The Ministry of Health confirmed that no private health institution has the right to keep the original identification papers or to detain patients, newborns, or the bodies of their deceased in return for financial dues.
“Riyadh Health” clarified that the health institution must take legal measures to collect its dues through official channels, stressing that private health institutions must be informed, at the nearest competent security authority and the Directorate of Health Affairs in the region, about any criminal incident or death that occurs to patients visiting them or inpatients. In which.
She added that in accordance with Article 30 of the health institutions system and its executive regulations, this obligation also includes reporting private health institutions about any criminal incident in which the injured resorted to seeking ambulance or treatment, and that they should keep a complete record of traffic accidents and injuries.