Pact signed for knee replacement surgeries

Muscat: Athar Health Endowment Foundation and Saud Bahwan Charitable Foundation today signed a financing agreement to the tune of OMR250,000 to perform knee replacement surgeries for patients with limited income.

The agreement’s signing was in implementation of a strategy to achieve sustainability in financing health services (by finding alternatives), accelerate pace of health procedures, consolidate public-private sector partnership and encourage charitable collaboration among members of society through Athar Health Endowment Foundation.

The agreement will help cut down waiting lists, ease the burden on government health institutions and enable patients to perform operations in the shortest possible time.

The agreement was signed by Dr. Hilal Ali Al Sabti, Minister of Health, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Athar Endowment Health Foundation, and Sarah Mohammed Bahwan, who represented Saud Bahwan Charitable Foundation. -ONA