Riyadh plans radical surgery to rejuvenate Saudi health sector - FT.com:
"At the busy emergency department of the King Saud Medical City in Riyadh, doctors are struggling to merge female- and male-only treatment rooms. The complex — which incorporates the capital’s oldest hospital, Shumaisi — is one of the few institutions to retain segregated facilities. Yet managers attempting to streamline its operations as part of a broader reorganisation of healthcare in Saudi Arabia are running up against the country’s deep social divisions: families dislike being separated in hospital, but attempts to end gender segregation have sparked resistance from social conservatives. “There are always problems one way or the other,” said one of its doctors.
But patients will soon face even more radical change as the kingdom embarks on an overhaul of its bloated and inefficient healthcare sector in a programme aimed at cutting costs, boosting productivity, improving public health and bringing more locals into the workforce."
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