Riyadh – Mubasher: Saudi Arabia-based Middle East Healthcare Company, known as Saudi German Hospital, announced signing a new partnership agreement with Careem to provide better transportation services to its patients to and from its hospitals in the kingdom. 

“This agreement will help pave the way in addressing [Saudi German Hospital Group’s] patient’s transportation needs,” the group’s vice chairman and deputy president, Makarem Sobhi Batterjee, said.

For his part, general manager of Careem, Iyad Anwar Al Dalooj, stressed the importance of the new partnership, “in facilitating the transport of patients to world-class healthcare providers such as Saudi German Hospitals to take care of the health needs of the community.”

Under the deal, patients going to and from Saudi German Hospitals will benefit from a 20% discount. Discharged patients will also get free rides upon leaving the facility.