JEDDAH: The home health care program in Najran has served more than 900 patients in 2018.
A spokesman for Najran Health Affairs, Ali Al-Jledan, said that 26,465 visits were made to patients in their homes in 2018, while the cumulative number of visits since the beginning of the program has reached 81,427 visits to serve approximately 2,775 patients registered with the program since its inception.
He added that 1,853 patients have been discharged since the start of the program.
Al-Jledan pointed out that the Department of Home Health Care provided patients with many health services and a total of 232 medical devices, including 53 beds, 55 air mattresses, 40 wheelchairs, six shower seats, 16 electronic devices for measuring blood pressure, seven oxygen concentrators, 14 devices for monitoring blood glucose levels, 10 devices to drain accumulated fluid in respiratory and quadriplegia patients, and four walking aid devices.
He said that 42 new patients were registered with the program in Jan. 2019, bringing the total number of patients to 929.
He highlighted that the Department of Home Health Care in Najran has successfully reduced the ratio of patients with bedsores from 11 percent in Jan. 2018 to 3.7 percent in Jan. 2019, in addition to achieving first place in the Kingdom for projects that improve the quality of home health care with regards to hand washing.
Najran Health Affairs has entered into a partnership agreement worth SR250,000 with Al-Hamroor Group to provide medical devices for home care patients, and has launched a community program through which medical devices are distributed to patients and repairs are made to improve the patients’ home environment.
The program in Najran provides services to patients through 8 hospitals: King Khaled Hospital, Najran General Hospital, Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Sharourah General Hospital, Habuna General Hospital, Badr Al-Janoub General Hospital, Khobash General Hospital, and Al-Amal Complex for Mental Health. Twelve medical teams provide affordable home health care to patients from the program’s target groups. AN Jeddah
