The Head of the Virtual Neurology Department at the Virtual Health Hospital, Dr. Saeed Al-Zahrani, confirmed that on the first day of the inauguration of the virtual hospital, the treatment of a critical case “a stroke” of a patient who attended within four and a half hours was completed in a peripheral hospital, noting that in cases of Another initiative started by the SEHA Virtual Hospital team on the first day of its inauguration.
In the details, the executive director in charge of the Virtual Health Hospital for Remote Health Care, engineer Mona Al-Subaie, said: Today, we are able, thank God, to diagnose a stroke in the courtyard or anywhere else during the golden time that is possible, God willing, after the intervention, to avoid disability or death, God forbid. Emphasizing: Today, and in the Kingdom in particular, we are facing a number of challenges in the health field, due to the geographical distance and the scarcity of some specialties.
Al-Subaie indicated in a video broadcast by the Government Communications Center also, that many patients are forced to travel from one place to another to obtain services, and all these challenges made us look for solutions by employing modern technologies and artificial intelligence techniques in this field, stressing that the doctors of the Health Hospital The virtual they intervene and help in developing treatment plans and follow the patient’s condition until it stabilizes.
She added, “The one who encouraged and encouraged us to take advantage of these technologies and remote health care and benefit from them; This is what we saw at the time of the pandemic after the appointments stopped due to the fear of the spread of infection, especially in cases of chronic diseases, it was necessary to follow up care for this category. She pointed out: Today, we felt the simplest thing, a dream that we see in today’s reality.
And the medical director of the Virtual Health Hospital, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Hamoud, said: There may be a question about how to benefit from the services of the Virtual Health Hospital. He emphasized: Of course, today we are connected to 130 hospitals across the Kingdom, and if the beneficiary or patient arrives at one of these hospitals, all our specialized services are available, and most of the hospitals that benefit from the virtual health hospital on an ongoing basis are distinguished hospitals, but they lose some specialties.
The Minister of Health, Fahd Al-Jalajel, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Eng. Abdullah Al-Sawaha, and the Governor of the General Authority for Digital Government, Eng. Ahmed bin Muhammad Al-Suwayan, inaugurated yesterday the first virtual hospital, which is one of the priority initiatives in the health sector transformation program that serves the vision and enhances medical applications It provides the best virtual health services in the service of citizens, which is the largest in the world in terms of size, and more than 130 hospitals are connected to it in the Kingdom, and it is the first of its kind in the Middle East.