The Ministry of Health (MoH) plans to recruit 500 Egyptian doctors and is set to send a committee to Egypt in order to sign the contracts.
The recruited doctors will come from various medical disciplines and specialties and work in the ministry’s hospitals around the Kingdom. The move is part of the ministry’s efforts to overcome the shortage of doctors in government hospitals and health care centers.
A local newspaper cited an official at the ministry’s contracting department saying the committee will be headed by Marjan Al-Marjan, the department’s supervisor general and will leave for Egypt after Ramadan.
Hisham Shiha, medical adviser at the Egyptian Embassy, revealed that the ministry is going to sign one-year renewable contracts with the Egyptian doctors after the Eid Al-Fitr holidays.
In June 2012, the ministry signed contracts with Indian nurses and requested the Ministry of Civil Services to approve the recruitment of 3,500 foreign doctors and nurses, citing a shortage of Saudi health care professionals as the reason behind the need to hire foreign medical practitioners.
MoH to hire 500 doctors from Egypt
