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Tue, 03/13/2012 - 19:37
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SCH Starts Procedures for Founding A National Health Insurance Company
Doha, March 13 (QNA) - The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) announced on Tuesday the adoption of the institutional contract and basic regulation of the national health insurance company which the SCH totally owns of 100 percent.
In a press release issued here today the council said it presented a request to the Ministry of Trade and business pertaining to this consensus. The council has recently adopted the organizational structure of the company to start employing the specialized figures priming for the application of the health insurance system by the end of this year, said the release.
The national health insurance company is the organizer for the social health insurance system in Qatar as being a connection point of the affiliated side - the beneficiaries of these health insurance services- and those who are offering it.
HE Minister of Health and Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH), Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani, considered the insurance system as conforming with the the Qatar national vision of 2030 and as hub to create "positive competitions" in the health services and to vitally contribute to raising the services' standards to be "available to everyone, anywhere and anytime".
HE the minister added that the Health Insurance system will cover all individuals in the state of Qatar, who will be able to get a health care service from either -the private or the public sector- upon their needs. (QNA)