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- The health care system in the Federal Republic of Germany is considered one of the most advanced and advanced in the world, and the general level of health care is of high quality in various sectors globally. Therefore, we find that German citizens enjoy a distinguished healthy life and have a significantly higher life expectancy than others.

Foreign and Arab patients from outside Germany can also benefit from this advanced and advanced health system.

This makes more than 250 thousand foreign patients come from more than 177 countries to choose Germany as their medical treatment destination.

The researchers point out that the number of foreign patients is increasing annually.

The cost of treatment in Germany is not the cheapest, but it is much lower compared to other countries (Shutterstock)

Treatments meant for the Arabs

The most important treatments that Arab patients seek in Germany include spinal surgery, treatment of cancerous tumors, joint replacement operations such as artificial knees, rehabilitation and physiotherapy, heart diseases and surgery, diabetes, kidney diseases, as well as artificial insemination and IVF, neurology and brain surgery, And the treatment of epilepsy, and high blood pressure.

The clinics and hospitals of the Federal Statistical Office currently include 1,914 clinics, and Germany ranks fifth in the world, and according to estimates, about 1.2 billion euros flow into the coffers of hospitals and doctors in Germany every year.

The percentage of foreign patients in Germany is 11.7%, most of whom are Arabs who come for treatment from the Arab Gulf, and their percentage is 17% of the total foreign patients. Saudi Arabia ranked first with 34%, and Kuwait by 19%.

Professor Helmut Mann in Germany: Any kind of exploitation of the patient exposes the doctor to severe punishment (Al-Jazeera)

Laws prohibiting the exploitation of patients

In response to Al Jazeera Net's question about the reasons why patients from different countries of the world choose Germany for treatment, Professor Helmut Mann, an internal medicine and nephrologist, said that "the cost of treatment in Germany is not the cheapest, but it is much lower compared to countries such as America and Britain, and German doctors comply with strictly to medical policies and cost list whereby private patients and legally uninsured patients are billed to physicians' fee schedule based on services actually rendered."

He adds that “doctors do not prescribe medical examinations or unnecessary medication (any kind of patient abuse exposes the doctor to severe punishment), so the difference in costs is not significant between what German patients pay and what foreign patients pay for medical treatment or diagnosis. In many cases, Foreign patients are treated and treated as German patients with health insurance in the private sector, with a small increase according to the legal schedules.”

Conservative treatments in Germany increase the life of the natural joint and delay the solution of artificial joint implantation (Shutterstock)

development of orthopedics

Dr. Imad Abu Rayan, a specialist in orthopedics and fractures (a member of the German Orthopedic Association) told Al Jazeera Net, "Because of the technical development in surgical equipment, Germany is one of the leading countries in treating bone, joint and spine deformities. There are doctors who specialize in precise surgeries for one joint. For example, joint surgeries The hip is considered one of the ever-evolving surgeries, as hip arthroscopy and periacetabular osteotomy cases are on the rise, and require high expertise from the surgeon and continuous practice. And what has proven to be a high efficacy and a high success rate is the implantation of natural cartilage in the hip joint through arthroscopic surgery.”

From the right, Salim Al-Otaibi, Dr. Imad Abu Rayan, Sam Abu Ali (Al-Jazeera)

This is confirmed by Sam Abu Ali from Kuwait, who received treatment in Germany, that in addition to the efficacy of the treatment, there is accuracy in dealing and punctuality. (St. Petrus) Hospital in Bonn, and all administrative and logistical matters were arranged and the necessary appointments were booked. On the day of my arrival, the treatment journey began with some medical examinations and x-rays, and it was decided to perform an operation on my right knee, followed by a number of physiotherapy sessions, and then I returned to Kuwait, I began to feel the pleasure of walking without pain in my knee, thank God."

Salim Al-Otaibi from Saudi Arabia told Al-Jazeera Net that he has been visiting Germany for 4 years for periodic examinations, and medicine in Germany - according to his description - is not only distinguished, but there is punctuality and attention to the human being, and there are no routine complications, as well as the cost is not burdensome.

He added, "The treatment journey began immediately two days after my first arrival, and I stayed for about a week in Aachen, due to waiting for some tests, medical results and the results of x-rays. .