Sources explained to (Today) the controls for allowing health practitioners to work in the private sector, outside official working hours, which were approved by the Council of Ministers in its session the day before yesterday, headed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz – may God protect him -, including issuing a license to work in the sector. The private medical facility does not conflict with the work, in addition to the approval of the government entity to work in the private medical facility.
licensed work
The controls included specifying the categories covered by the decision, including: consultants, specialists and other categories. The controls stipulated that the private medical facility be licensed by the Ministry of Health and licensed to work in the required specialty, according to the draft executive regulations, which will be announced during the coming period.
The controls also included the approval of the employer, as well as the approval of the private medical facility in which he wishes to work, and the work does not exceed one private medical facility.
Working hoursThe controls include the services entrusted to the health practitioner, namely: providing medical advice and treatment, performing surgeries, necessary medical examinations, and home visit to the patient whose treatment the doctor supervises in the private medical facility in which he works.
The controls include adherence to the working days and hours for which he is authorized to work, and may not be modified except with the approval of the governmental medical facility in which he works, and the approval of the Directorate, and that his work hours in the private medical facility are on days on which he is permitted to work other than his official working hours, including days or hours The shift assigned to him or the times that work conditions require his presence in his work in the governmental medical facility in which he works. Treatment responsibilities and the controls include: The start of working hours in the private medical facility after the lapse of at least one hour from the end of the official working hours in the governmental medical facility in which he works, and that it does not affect His work in the private medical facility to perform his therapeutic, administrative, supervisory, or training duties and responsibilities, or to attend committees and meetings in the governmental medical facility in which he works.
Promotion of the private facility. The controls also include: The health practitioner shall not exploit medical or administrative devices or equipment, auxiliary services, workers or any other facilities in the governmental medical facility in which he works for the benefit of the private medical facility in which he is authorized to work, and not promote, invite or encourage hesitant patients to The government medical facility in which he works for whom he supervises his treatment or others who review him during his work in the private medical facility in which he is authorized to work, or refer them or urge them to use any medical facilities in the private medical facility, as long as they are available in the governmental medical facilities, and not to interfere with any A governmental medical facility to enable patients to obtain priority for interview appointments or to obtain medical or treatment services or medication, unless the patient’s medical condition so requires.
No more than one private medical facility operates
The therapeutic tasks and duties of the practitioner shall not affect