‘Daman’ opens its fifth primary health care facility in Fahaheel
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 2: The Health Insurance Hospitals Company “Daman” inaugurated its fifth primary health care center in the Fahaheel area in the Ahmadi Governorate, in order to complete the requirements of the Ministry of Health at the level of primary health care centers, reports Al-Jarida daily.
In a statement to reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration, the company’s Board Chairman Mutlaq Al-Sanea said that the center is the largest “Daman” center in Kuwait and the largest in terms of the number of operating clinics to meet the needs of health care services.
Al-Sanea added that the center is an essential element in the company’s plan to establish an integrated health system that includes hospitals with a bed capacity of
600 beds and primary care health centers distributed in all governorates to serve the national health care strategy aimed at improving the level of health services and reducing financial and administrative burdens on government agencies.
He explained that the company is currently working on finalizing the requirements for opening two hospitals in the Jahra and Ahmadi governorates at the beginning of the first quarter of next year, which will be operated in cooperation with the Spanish company “Ribera Salud”, which has been an expert in providing health care for more than 30 years in Spain and a number of countries.
He stated that Daman Company is considered the largest project of the development plan in the State of Kuwait, with the capital amounting to 230 million Kuwaiti dinars (about 690 million US dollars), and the first initiative to support the medical sector in Kuwait, which is considered one of the “largest sectors depleting the state’s general budget.”
Al Sanea said that Daman will work to raise health care indicators, achieve a qualitative leap for the health sector, reduce financial and administrative burdens on government agencies, in addition to supporting economic diversification through health care by providing health care services to residents working in the private sector (Article 18) and their families.
For his part, the CEO of the company, Thamer Arab, said in a similar statement that the opening of the center is a new success step on the way to completing the “Daman” health system, which will be followed by other steps to reach the ultimate goal of achieving the company’s vision and strategy in building and managing a comprehensive and integrated health system that includes all activities and medical services from Insurance, treatment, follow-up and awareness.
He stated that citizens and residents of Ahmadi Governorate can now quickly obtain integrated and high-quality health care services, including family medicine, dentistry and pediatrics. And he indicated that the company currently operates four primary health care centers in the areas of Hawally, Farwaniya, Jahra and Dajeej, which are currently working as private centers that receive all groups that need health care services in preparation for the opening of the “Daman” system and receiving the basic segment that will benefit from its services.
Daman Center Fahaheel extends over an area of 4,660 square meters and includes 30 family medicine clinics, 12 dental clinics, and five pediatric clinics, as well as three treatment rooms and the same for observation, four x-ray rooms, a laboratory and a pharmacy.
Daman is the first healthcare institution of its kind in the Middle East that relies on the partnership system between the public and private sectors, based on the royal desire within the national development plan and the vision of “New Kuwait 2035”.
It establishes an integrated health system that includes health insurance programs and establishes and operates a network of primary health care centers and hospitals to cover all regions of Kuwait with the application of best professional practices to achieve sustainable development in health care and investment in the health sector infrastructure based on the best international standards.