As part of his effort to offer job opportunities for Saudi health diploma holders, Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabee'a, Minister of Health, has instructed all health authorities throughout the country to strictly abide by not recommend issuing visas for health diploma holders from abroad to join the private health sector unless for urgent need. As per directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the minister strongly urged the authorities to scrutinize applications by private health clinics or hospitals to recruit health diploma applicants seeking work in Saudi Arabia and not recommend issuance of work visas to them unless it was proved that no Saudi job-seeker is on the jobless list in the same specialization. The Ministry of Labor has recruited more than 90,000 Saudi health diploma holders, stopped the employment of foreign diploma technicians and opened very limited opportunities for specialists from abroad, a report by the Ministry said.
