USAID Holds a Focus Group Session to Promote Medical Tourism

The USAID Economic Development Program (SABEQ) invited Private Hospital Association (PHA) members and medical insurance companies to attend a focus group meeting at SABEQ premises, in a bid to protect patients’ rights in cases of a mal practice. Attending the session were PHA member hospitals and leading insurance companies’ representatives.

Promoting medical tourism in Jordan necessitates responding to requirements of certain markets that demand medical insurance policies that guarantee the rights of patients.  As Jordan continues to lack the issuance of a mal-practice medical law such health insurance requirements becomes highly important for certain markets, while others insist on them even when the law is enforced.

Valuable discussion between both parties yielded useful results. SABEQ Program was asked to provide technical assistance to create a new insurance product for hospitals and to ensure the correct application of international standards in Jordan, which would cater for the interests of bnoth hospitals and insurance companies.

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