Hassan Al -Sitry
The Ministry of Health confirmed that the number of medical errors registered in the Salmaniya Medical Complex and other public hospitals reached 7 medical errors in 2023, while no medical error was recorded in 2024, and no medical error was recorded during the years 2023 and 2024 in primary health care centers. Given that these errors are not many, it is difficult to determine more specialized in which medical errors occurred, as they occurred in various medical departments. As for the medical errors that were recorded in dental clinics in hospitals and health centers, one medical error was recorded in 2023, while no medical error was recorded in 2024. Regarding the private medical sector, the ministry explained, in its response to the question of a member of the Shura Council, Ibtisam Al -Dalal, that the number of medical errors Registered in private hospitals reached 4 medical errors in 2023, one medical error in 2024, and at the rate of one medical error for the following specializations: emergency medicine, urology surgery, kidney disease, family medicine / general medicine, and dentistry. While the number of medical errors registered in medical centers and private clinics reached 13 medical errors in 2023, and 11 medical errors in 2024, most of them in the medicine specialization Teeth, where the number of errors in this specialization reached 11 medical errors in 2023, and 5 errors in 2024.
