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• Opportunities for investments in Healthcare
  Education
• on the Saudi Arabian Market
• 8th German Arab Business Forum 2005
• June 15th 17th 2005 , Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Fried Oelschlegel
• Saudi German Hospitals Group, Jeddah, Kingdom of
  Saudi Arabia

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SGH Group Vision and Mission

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• Our Guiding Philosophy had always been the
  following these verse from The Holy Quran
• And if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he
  saved
• the life of all mankind Al-Maidah (32)
• Our Corporate vision is
• to design, finance, construct operate 30
  world class hospitals and
• create 50.000 jobs by the year 2015
• to be the dominant player in the private
  medical education
• by establishing 5 Medical Colleges by the
  year 2010
• Our mission is
• To be the leader in the Middle East and Africa
  and to deliver reliable, quality medical care to
  everybody

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Investments in Medical Education Business with
long term effects and huge opportunities for
cooperation between Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and
Germany
Five Batterjee Medical Colleges ( BMC) with
each 4000 students till 2010 Insha Allah !
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Medical Manpower in Saudi Arabia Current
Situation

• Only less than 17 of the doctors in Saudi Arabia
  are Saudis.
• Over 80 of health professionals are Expatriates.
• The Average no. of people per physician
• Saudi Arabia 588 USA 358 UAE
  Germany 285
  
  
  
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  Source WHO 2003 )
• Currently, there is an acute shortfall of
  qualified medical personnel. This gap is met
  through the import of skilled medical personnel
  from abroad, at a cost of SAR 15 billion. With
  the increasing efforts for Saudisation, the
  coming years will see an even heavier demand for
  skilled Saudi medical professionals.
• The number of health physicians, nursing staff,
  and Allied Health personnel in the Kingdom has
  grown at a compounded annual growth rate of .9,
  1.9, and 6, respectively, between the years
  1995 and 1999. According to this growth rate,
  combined with the current population levels,
  crude death and birth rates, and life expectancy
  rates, the ratio of doctors to patients will not
  reach the International standard of 1/358, even
  by the year 2050.
  (
  Source KPMG )

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Medical Education in Saudi Arabia Current
Situation

• 13 Government Colleges of Medicine ( 7 colleges
  for Boys and 6 Colleges for Girls) The rejection
  rate of applicants in Medicine in some public
  universities exceed 90.
• In 1999 ,a royal decree authorized the
  establishment of private colleges parallel to
  government colleges and educational institutions
  because the inadequate capacity of Government
  Medical Colleges in Saudi Arabia.
• Many students are forced to travel abroad for
  Medical Education at very high costs. Number of
  Saudi students studying abroad was 7,901 in the
  year 2000.
• 57 in USA, 13 in UK, 7in Canada
• Boys go abroad for education, Girls are forced to
  look for a faculty that is locally available and
  not interested in.
• Medical manpower requirement can not be met by
  Government Medical Colleges alone.
• Private Sector participation is the only
  solution

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Vision Mission of Batterjee Medical Colleges
(BMC)

• VISION
• design, finance, construct, and operate 5 medical
  colleges to the highest international standards
  by year the 2015, thus providing the region with
  well-trained qualified healthcare professionals
  to serve the increasing demand for quality
  healthcare.
• MISSION
• To be regional leader in providing educational
  and vocational training opportunities of highest
  quality in medical, nursing and allied health
  sciences that are comparable to international
  standards. Through the assistance of highly
  qualified faculty, the use of advanced technology
  and the guidance of community leaders, our
  graduates will be able to professionally compete
  locally and world-wide and be effective
  contributors towards the advancement of their
  societies.
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Aims of the Batterjee Colleges

• To be a forerunner in Medical and Dental care,
  Pharmaceutical,
• health education and promotion services.
• To uphold and fulfill the vision and mission of
  the Ministry of Higher
• Education and other national and
  international partners.
• To be a forerunner in undergraduate program,
  post-graduate training
• that cuts across institutional and national
  boundaries.
• To be an international center of excellence in
  medical education and
• research that
• Utilizes the faculty core
  competencies and capabilities.
• and Links its undergraduate program
  to the evolving post-
• graduate training and world-wide
  vocational training.
•   To encourage its faculty and staff to maximize
  their performance by
• utilizing their core competencies and
  capabilities.

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BMC - seven competitive advantages

• First and the largest private Medical
  University in Saudi Arabia that
• promoted by the leading healthcare
  provider in the Middle East, SGH
• Group.
• Good Location enabling future expansion and
  allowing for a self-enclosed campus. The College
  will consist of two main campuses, each with a
  full range of educational, residential,
  recreational facilities, one for boys and the
  other for girls.
• Contemplated Public-Private-Partnerships with
  leading International
• Universities in Germany, in Europe and
  other continents
• Leverage provided by existing cooperation between
  SGH Group and
• five German universities with regards to
  senior visiting professor
• exchange program
• Exceeding national standards of accreditation
  /licensing .
• Excellent job placement capabilities into the
  Saudi German Hospitals
• network.
• Directly tied to an operative hospital for
  teaching and interning with a
• full equipment and TQM system as a clinical
  school.

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Implementation of German Quality Standards ( 1 )

• The SGH Group started 1989 with an
  International Visiting Professor Program At
  present, almost 130 professors and increasing
  from famous universities in Germany ( 79 ), Egypt
  (15), Austria (5), Netherlands (2), USA (5), U.K.
  (8), Belgium (2), Italy (2), France (4),
  Switzerland (2), Japan (1),  Turkey (2) and
  Canada (3), visit us periodically to see
  patients, perform operations, conduct lectures,
  workshops, participate in scientific symposia,
  etc
• 25 German professors have applied for the
  admission to the program alone within the last
  three months.
• The curricula for Medicine and Nursing for the
  colleges were developed by famous German
  Universities and are based on the new practice
  focused reform study programs the highest
  advanced methods in modern medical education

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Implementation of German Quality Standards ( 2 )

• We are here in Germany also to continue our
  negotiations to erect a non-profit foundation for
  education together with a very famous German
  Faculty of Medicine to use such organization for
  knowledge and experience transfer from Germany to
  Saudi Arabia for a mutual benefit, Insha Allah !
• This foundation will implement in our BMC
  colleges a system approved in German universities
  for quality assurance and control in medical
  Education beside the international ISO 9001/ 9002
  standards and international accreditions.
• Great benefit to Saudi Arabian and Arab medical
  students as it will offer them the high quality
  and calibre of medical education and research of
  famous German Universities in the spirit of
  science culture of an unified Europe at lower
  cost and at home !!!

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Benefit for the Germans ?

• Participation in the competition for construction
  and equipping of the colleges each of them is
  an 200 Millionen SR Investment all together 1
  Billion. And the BMC colleges didnt cover all
  demands in health care education facilities in
  Saudi Arabia. The situation in other Arab
  countries is quit similar.
• Development of knowledge and experience transfer
  to a new and high profitable business field for
  German Universities by Zero-Financial Investment
  ( but fare away from false clichees not all
  Arabs have an oil-source in their garden We
  have also to calculate our return of invest
  because its an international very competetive
  market )
• To invest directly together with us in Joint
  Venture Companies for medical education and share
  with us longstanding and satisfying profit marges
  on a fast growing market.

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soft benefits for German Healthcare
Institutions for Medical Education to cooperate
with BMC - Colleges

• Opportunity to cooperate with Medical Colleges
  which have backing of the leading healthcare
  provider in Middle East Africa with proven
  track record the SGH Group.
• Medical Education is having a lot of scope in
  future.
• Investment with regular return with social cause
  in mind.
• Investment in Medical Education is direct
  Investment in human resources development of a
  fast growing nation.
• Encouraging exchange of expertise nationally,
  regionally and internationally by a close network
  to the leading Centre of Medical Excellence in
  Treatment and Education in the world.
• Participation in the revolution of IT ,
  e-learning methodology an medical research with
  new business opportunities .
• Participation in solving of a major problem in
  the Arab region - Unemployment. Education and
  training is helping to improve the social and
  economic standards as the most important
  prerequisite for political stability and peace in
  this region.

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We will start September 2006, Insha Allah ! You
are invited to become a colleague, a supporter or
a partner of the Batterjee Medical Colleges
A dessert flower for your attention

THANK YOU !