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Sep012009
Creating a sustainable healthcare system
Co-Author, Sep 2009, (Language: English)
Although Saudi Arabia is a relatively wealthy country per capita – the country has the world’s largest oil reserves and is the world’s largest exporter of oil – it nonetheless has been facing a mounting financial burden from healthcare expenditure in its effort to sustain its national healthcare system, a system which has provided free basic healthcare to all its citizens and foreign residents. Realizing that such a system is unsustainable in the face of a growing and ageing population, the government has, over the past few years, initiated measures to reform it.
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Middle East Health Magazine,
UAE
Middle East Health Magazine,
UAE 

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