The Compass – Minister of Health Firas Al-Hawari said, on Sunday, that the ministry is in the process of amending the health insurance agreement with the Private Hospitals Association to include workers in government institutions with treatment in emergency departments of private sector hospitals of the second and third insurance classes.

Al-Hawari added that “the amendment of the health insurance agreement with private hospitals allows its beneficiaries to review the emergency departments in those hospitals in return for 20% of the treatment value.”

For his part, a member of the Parliamentary Health Committee, Ahmed Al-Sarrahna, said that about 1.3 million citizens will benefit from the amendment of the health insurance agreement, which will relieve pressure on emergency government hospitals.

Al-Sarahna stressed that “there is no privatization of public sector hospitals.”