Primary Health Care Services in Oman

Before moving forward, we need to understand what Primary Health Care means. You might have heard about a term called “Primary Care”, the term primary care & primary health care can mean two separate things or the same depending on who the reader is. But recently WHO (World Health Organisation) has given recognition to the claim that they are two different terms. “Primary Care” is denoted as Personal Family Doctor level services and “Primary Health Care” is used to denote services that are provided by the government & privately owned health care institutions.

In this blog, I will shed some light on how Oman’s Primary Health Care standards have risen in the past few years, how basic health care services helped Oman and what are the key takeaways that other countries can implement to improve health care conditions.