Muscat: Oman will roll out the much discussed mandatory health insurance for private-sector locals, foreign workers, and visitors to the Sultanate in a phased manner from next year, a top government official informed on Monday.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Middle East Healthcare Insurance Conference, H E Abdullah Salim Al Salmi, executive president of the Capital Market Authority (CMA), said: “The authorities at CMA have worked on a clear plan for the implementation of health insurance with an aim to reduce the cost of insurance coverage and to create a unified policy document for the sector. We are aiming to introduce it in a phased manner from next year.”
According to Salmi, tourists who are coming to Oman will have to obtain the medical insurance before they enter the country. “This is important and the plan is to make it mandatory for those visiting Oman first before it is implemented elsewhere here,” Salmi informed.
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The current health insurance coverage includes approximately 469,000 workers in the private sector, and this number is expected to exceed two million when expatriates are added to Omanis working for private firms.
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