Al-Marsad Newspaper: The Ministers of Health and Communications and the Governor of Digital Government inaugurated today (Monday) the “Seha” virtual hospital, which is the first of its kind in the region and the Middle East that provides this type of services.
The Minister of Health, Mr. Fahd bin Abdulrahman Al-Jalajel, indicated that this project accommodates about 500,000 beneficiaries per year, and provides 34 sub-specialties and sub-specialties, and it will facilitate the citizen to obtain consultations and come up with solutions that will save him from the hardship of his transfer to the hospital, through his communication with doctors remotely. In addition to transferring expertise between doctors and specialists, and making the best consultants available in all cities and villages through telemedicine.
What is SEHA Virtual Hospital?
It is a hospital that provides remote services to hospitals around the Kingdom using medical technologies through advanced specialized services such as complex operations, artificial intelligence, remote observation, diagnosis and communication intervention, so that the largest consultants can provide their services to all cities and governorates.
Services provided
The hospital services include the virtual service for electroencephalograms, virtual clinics, the virtual service for stroke patients, the virtual service for critical care patients, and the virtual radiology service.
The hospital also aims to use the latest treatment technologies, expand the employment and investment of medical robots, to save time and effort to ease the hardship of travel and transportation, and for critical cases that require specialized, accurate and quick consultations while facilitating the provision of health services at home, and the virtual hospital contributes to transferring expertise to modern doctors. Graduation to raise efficiency and enhance medical services and provide access to them throughout the Kingdom. It also receives requests and inquiries from all hospitals through various specialized clinics, which achieves the strategic goals of the Ministry of Health in the speed and ease of access to the service.