Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — A total of 138 agreements, MoUs and deals worth more than SAR 13.3 billion ($3.54 billion) were signed during the three-day Global Health Exhibition organized by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health.
Held under the theme ‘Invest in Health’ and visited by 111,000 local and international visitors, more than 300 local, regional and international companies from 29 countries presented the latest healthcare innovations and technologies in digital health, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
During the course of the event, ministers and decision makers discussed investment in the Saudi health sector, and a meeting between Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel and owners of hospitals and small establishments was also held during which they discussed investment opportunities in technology, research, innovation, and digital health solutions were held in the course of the event.
The exhibition, in its sixth edition, offered health practitioners 30-credit-hour of Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, presented by 100 speakers at 30 dialogue sessions.
There were several pavilions at the exhibition: an investment pavilion that highlighted the latest government initiatives and developments in the health sector, a medical laboratories pavilion that showed cutting-edge medical innovations and techniques and a pavilion for emerging companies that presented the most prominent innovations that changed the health care industry.
A pavilion for interactive platforms that enabled participants to communicate and socialize was also hosted at the event.
A fifth pavilion, for innovation, witnessed a large turnout of visitors; it presented Seha Virtual Hospital, a project launched by the ministry, and its cutting-edge technologies, such as metaverse technologies and artificial intelligence laboratory, as well as a competition for startup companies and a medical program, among other activities.