Muscat: The State Audit Institution (SAI) issued the Annual Report 2022 in which it highlighted the results of the financial and administrative audit of some government units, authorities, investment, and companies subject to its audit after fulfillment of the followed procedures with those entities.
The Community Brief of the annual report also highlighted some discrepancies in the practices of health professionals in both private and public sectors.
It was noticed that Private health establishments allowed visiting doctors to practice the medical profession and allied medical professions without obtaining licenses or with expired licenses. 19 such violations were detected against one private health establishment.
The Ministry addressed private health establishments with regard to doctors working with expired licenses and requested them to abide by the granted privileges and specified working days
Repeated violations were committed by some doctors working in government health establishments due to practicing medical professionals in private health establishments without obtaining a license as regulated by the provisions of the Law for the Practice of the Medical Profession and regulations and decisions issued thereof, or practicing with an expired license. Four violations and two warnings against one doctor were detected in one year.
The Ministry of Health seeks to enhance its human resources in order to activate the supervisory role to monitor the work of doctors assess their commitment to working hours and grant privileges
Lack of staff specialized in following up the data of visiting doctors working in private health establishments, and limitation of the role played by the Directorate in conducting evaluations and periodic visits to those institutions. A number of 150 field visits for 1,600 institutions were carried out by only seven employees, with a coverage rate of 9 percent from January to July 2022.
Coordination is underway with the competent authorities to support the Ministry with the required human resources to solve the challenges
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