The Minister of Health, Fahd Al-Jalajel, praised the distinguished pioneering model achieved by Saudi Arabia in confronting the Corona virus pandemic. Thanks to the directives and follow-up of the wise leadership, represented by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Prince Muhammad bin Salman, and the concerted efforts of all concerned parties from the public and private sectors, and the great role played by members of Saudi society, citizens as well as residents, in confronting pandemic, through their cooperation, awareness, and commitment to preventive precautions, and their eagerness to take vaccines and immunization doses, coinciding with the World Health Organization’s announcement of the end of the emergency health situation related to the pandemic.
He referred to the leading role of the Kingdom at the international level, as the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the President of the G20 summit at the time, called for an emergency session for the leaders of the G20 summit countries to discuss the Kingdom’s initiative to help countries affected by the repercussions of the pandemic, and the leaders adopted the Saudi initiative and the Kingdom worked to implement it, as the Kingdom did By supporting the efforts of the World Health Organization to protect societies, which helped the organization to fulfill its international obligations during the crisis, in addition to the Kingdom providing direct support to a number of countries affected by the crisis by providing preventive and curative supplies to confront the pandemic.
Al-Jalajel stated that the great development that Saudi Arabia enjoys in all fields, foremost of which is health services, is a fruit of the ambitious vision of the Kingdom 2030, which aims to enhance the quality of life of citizens in Saudi Arabia, and that the health sector transformation program is one of its most important pillars and aims to structure the health sector in the Kingdom to be A comprehensive, effective and integrated health system, based on the health of the individual and society, including the citizen, resident and visitor, which contributed to enabling the health sector to confront the pandemic through a number of its initiatives and projects that worked to anticipate the future and its challenges; Such as the establishment of the Public Health Authority “Prevention” and the establishment of the National Health Laboratory and the National Center for Health Crisis and Disaster Management; This was reflected in the optimal handling during the pandemic phases and made the Kingdom a distinguished model in dealing with the pandemic at the international level.
The Minister of Health stated that the Kingdom has made many distinguished efforts in confronting the Covid 19 crisis, including providing treatment for all citizens and residents without exception, including violators of the residency system, as well as raising the capacity of all health services, in intensive care rooms and hospitals, and providing all the necessary capabilities of medicines. And vaccines, laboratories, tools and equipment in record time, and harnessing technical systems to confront the pandemic.
Minister Al-Jalajel stressed that the technical progress witnessed by the Kingdom at all levels and at the level of the health sector in particular was reflected in the ability to effectively respond to the repercussions of the Covid 19 crisis through digital health solutions and virtual care, activating data management and analysis, and providing multiple outlets to provide services to citizens and residents that contribute In achieving its access to everyone with ease and ease, which enabled the Kingdom to control the pandemic in its early stages by activating the precautionary and preventive aspects and related appropriate protocols, which enabled it to cautiously return to normal life, and contributed to it occupying advanced positions globally as the best countries. to live in a time of pandemic, in addition to an advanced level in the classification of health security and achieving high community immunity rates; To become an example and a pioneering model to benefit from its experience and expertise during its management of the crisis.
