The Health Endowment Fund (HEF) has implemented 12 qualitative initiatives, in cooperation with the relevant authorities. These initiatives have contributed to alleviating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. They included the regular and mobile dialysis initiative, which contained 27,292 sessions. They also included an initiative to transport patients during the curfew hours, with the number of trips amounting to14,000, in addition to an initiative for home care services, which benefited 40,550 patients across the Kingdom, and the mobile clinics initiative which benefited 95,000 people in densely populated neighborhoods.
The initiatives also included supporting 23 medical research specializing in the treatment of COVID-19; establishing field hospitals in Riyadh, Makkah and Madinah with a capacity of 550 beds; creating 120 intensive care units (ICUs) in 4 hospitals; in addition to providing medical supplies to security men in all regions of the Kingdom.
Moreover, the initiatives included supporting the establishment of a health volunteering call center, as well as providing medical equipment and other needs for quarantines, in addition to providing medical and preventive supplies for health practitioners treating and dealing with COVID-19 patients. The initiatives also included providing lower-income families with 5 million face masks.
Noteworthy, HEF was established by a decision of the Council of Ministers in 1440 AH to achieve several goals. Some of these goal are: Encouraging doing good, making voluntary contributions in the health care field, highlighting the aspect of health care as a way for charity, making effective contributions to sustainable health development, helping with providing patients with the equipment, treatment and rehabilitation they need, especially individuals with chronic and incurable diseases, and contributing to financing preventive programs and health research.