Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The mandatory insurance against medical errors for health practitioners has come into force, and includes several specialties.

The decision made in November 2022 during the Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, approved the mandatory cooperative insurance against medical errors should include health practitioners working in these disciplines.

The Cabinet listed the disciplines as follows: nursing, pharmacy, anesthesia, midwifery, laboratories, diagnostic radiology, ambulance (emergency medical services), physiotherapy, speech and communication, respiratory treatment, nutrition (intravenous therapeutic nutrition), cardiology, audiology, bone setting, withdrawing blood, optics, and operation room technician.

This comes in coinciding with transferring the jurisdiction of medical disputes panels in Saudi Arabia has been transferred to the general judiciary under the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), as the ministries of justice and health signed a memorandum of understanding on the implementation of the system.