Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry has launched the region’s first virtual hospital, which is not only largest in Dubai or Saudi Arabia but also in the world and this is the first hospital in the Middle East, as well as latest in virtual healthcare, under the name of Seha Virtual Hospital.

The hospital’s inauguration did by the Minister of Health ‘Fahd Al Jalajel’ with the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. ‘Abdullah Al Sawah in presence.

The virtual hospital will use cutting-edge technology to provide specialized services to health-care facilities throughout the Kingdom.

It will support at least 130 other hospitals around Saudi Arabia, with the presence of several specialists; at the same time, this hospital will provide 30 plus specialized services to several different medical specialties and subspecialties.

Furthermore, it will contribute to the transfer of expertise to newly graduated doctors in order to improve the efficiency of medical services, as well as provide a service for receiving requests and inquiries from all hospitals via the various specialized clinics.

According to Health Minister Al Jalajel that the hospital will harness the latest virtual healthcare technologies qualitatively, with the motive to facilitate and enable citizens to obtain timely consultations. Patients will be able to talk with doctors remotely.

He further added that the hospitals would be going to help to transfer expertise between doctors and specialists and provide the best advisors in all cities and villages around the Kingdom through telemedicine.

The services hospitals are going to provide include virtual services for electroencephalogram patients (EEG), virtual clinics, stroke patients’ care, ICUs, as well as radiology.