Muscat: A total of OMR 24 million is required annually following increase in the per capita health expenditure per Omani national.
This is revealed in a report released by Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed al Saeedi, Minister of Health. According to the report, Oman’s annual population increases by about 80,000 people every year. The per capita health expenditure per Omani now stands at OMR 300. “This shows that there is a corresponding increase in the medical expenses relating to births. The cost of births amounted to more than OMR 16 million last year”, the report pointed out.
While the fee for a natural delivery at hospital is OMR 180, a caesarean procedure costs OMR 450. The number of births stood at 69,310 in 2018.
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“The healthcare services have seen a significant growth as the number of surgeries performed at the public hospitals has risen to 121,000 in 2018 compared to 92,000 in 2010 and 103,000 in 2015. This rise in the number of surgeries was a result of an increasing healthcare awareness among the population. The number of hi-tech surgeries has also doubled. Cardiac surgeries increased to 1,166 in 2018 compared to 865 surgeries in 2010. On the contrary, kidney transplant surgeries dropped from 15 in 2010 to 11 in 2018. Surgeries in the other specialties such as neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgeries and gastrointestinal surgeries have also witnessed a great development,” the report added.
