Riyadh, July 3: The Ministry of Health has announced that it would set up 700 more primary health care centres over the next five years to cater to the increasing number of patients, which reached 50 million last year.
Dr Khalid Al-Mirghalani, spokesman of the ministry, said a strategic plan had been compiled for offering primary health care services to cover even remote villages in the Kingdom. He was talking to the media following a meeting of the Third Health Services Council here recently.
The new centers would be built in three phases during the five-year period. During the first phase, 150 such centers would be built, while the other facilities would be spread out during the next two phases ending in 2014.
–Agencies