Saudi Gazette

JEDDAH – The Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Al-Nahdi Medical Company aimed at strengthening partnership between the private and the government sectors to achieve a comprehensive health development that will boost the well-being of citizens.

The director of Saudi Patient Safety Center doctor Abdulelah Al-Hawsawi and the CEO of Al-Nahdi Medical Company Yasser Joharji signed the MoU at the latter’s headquarters last Thursday.

Under the agreement, Al-Nahdi is going to provide services that boosts patients safety at the 50 educational clinics inside the pharmacies, alongside supporting medical convoys, and marketing campaigns.

The parties agreed to collaborate with each other to spread awareness about the correct method of using antibiotics, and to improve the way that antibiotics are disbursed in pharmacies.

They also agreed on activating the medicine management program, medicine consulting, and medicine education throughout the year.

Joharji said that “Al-Nahdi company is guided by the Saudi Vision 2030, which emphasizes on expanding the public health for all of the community members, and within our own strategy we have made a long trip to reach our wanted goal, to be a “pharmacy for the whole community”, and to serve five million patients around the kingdom.”

He added: “In this memorandum we are going to provide services that care about the safety of patients, and we are signing this memorandum because we believe that preventive medicine, and medicine education is the duty of all in the health community sector, including hospitals and private pharmacies. So Al-Nahdi Medical Company, with the partnership of the Saudi Patient Safety Center, intends to conduct a number of projects that cares about the health, and medicine awareness inside its pharmacies under the supervision of the Saudi Patient Safety Center.”

Doctor Al-Hawsawi expressed his happiness for signing the memorandum, and said: “The Saudi Vision 2030 aims at increasing the level of health care services in the kingdom, to the quality that we find in the advanced countries today. We will work to reach out to all citizens either in the city, or village, and the care programs would be integrated to cover all aspects of human health like protection and early detection of diseases. We will also promote healthy habits for the members of the whole community.”