Sherry Andrews

The Armed Forces Hospitals in Saudi Southern Region are leading health organizations that provides medical and health services (curative, preventive, diagnostic) in all medical specialties for employees of the Ministry of Defense in Southern Region, in addition to being a reference hospital receives critical cases transferred by the military hospitals from Sharurah, Najran, Jizan, as well as reception cases transferred from civilian hospitals in the region, and to provide open-heart surgery services, and kidney transplant and all other medical specialties minute of others available hospitals southern region . From this lofty goal was the first opening of the Armed Forces Hospital in Khamis Mushayt in the southern region in 1964. Then King Faisal Military Hospital within King Faisal Military City facilities under the patronage opened at the time of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (God rest his soul) and in the year 1975 with a capacity of 108 beds, and in view of the urgent need to open another hospital to accommodate increasing steadily for the auditors and the expansion of the large and growing the region's for employees of the armed forces were later in 1982 the opening of the Armed Forces Hospital in the south, with a capacity of 205 beds and over the past years has seen the hospital since its inception and to date many of the developments over time. Over the course of four decades ago was the development and expansion of hospitals facilities to become today a monument medically integrated in the southern region, where the bed capacity was raised to become (609) beds, and the target in the near future to become an integrated hospital centers and medical disciplines City .