GCC leader discuss health governance and climate adaptation

GCC leader discuss health governance and climate adaptation

DUBAI, UAE:- Future healthcare and governance policies and plans were discussed on Wednesday at the Harvard Business School GCC Alumni Club’s Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum.

Her royal Highness Dr Maha bint Mishari bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Vice President, Al Faisal University, speaking at a session entitled ‘Planning for GCC’s Future Healthcare Systems’ said that during a time of change and increased public private partnership in the healthcare sector, physicians have to be advocated for and brought into the conversation.

“I'd like to advocate one thing that I see is totally forgotten in the whole issue, it is advocacy for the physicians we have,” she said.

“We are shifting towards private health insurance, in the Kingdom, and we are going to be advocating for our patients but we do not have a budget that works for the physicians and interfaces their needs and their issues or collaborates for their research and their meetings. I think this is very important from a governance dimension,” she added.

Dr Maliha Al Hashimi a Global Heath Leader and C-Suite Healthcare executive from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said that from a very long-time healthcare has always been seen as something that's focused in hospitals or in terms of