Saudi to recruit 5,000 doctors to staff new hospitals

MEDICAL JOBS: Saudi Arabia has announced it needs thousands of physicians and surgeons. (Getty Images)

Up to 5,000 overseas doctors are being recruited to staff dozens of new hospitals in Saudi Arabia, it was reported on Monday.

The recruitment drive will seek medical personnel from the neighbouring Middle East countries, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for 43 hospitals being opened across the kingdom this year.

“There is a demand for these health personnel in our 43 new and renovated hospitals in the Kingdom,” said Dr Khalid Al-Mirghlani, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, according to Saudi daily Arab News.

The ministry is appointing a recruitment panel made up of doctors with human resource expertise who will be tasked with employing general physicians, consultants, specialists and surgeons, added Al Mirghlani.

The 43 hospitals will have a capacity to house 4,270 beds, ranging from 50 to 400 beds at each facility.

Academic qualifications of the new recruits would be checked to ensure they are in line with the regulations and standards set by the Saudi Council for Medical Specialists.

Prospective candidates would be asked to sit written and oral tests prior to selection. Al Mirghlani said.

The new hospitals are being built in Riyadh, Asir, Jizan, Hail, Tabuk, Al-Qassim, Al-Jouf, Al-Qurayat, Makkah, Madinah, Taif, the Eastern Province and Qunfuda.

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5000 Doctors
Posted by Rog on Tuesday 3 February 2009 at 14:11 UAE time


This seems too good to be true. Baout 120 doctors per hospital and 1.2 Doctors per patient. Perhaps an English or US doctor would like to comments

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