Dental charges for expats to increase

Charges on public dental services offered to expatriates will be raised like other medical services, MP Safa’a Al-Hashem posted on her Twitter account.

The lone women MP, who always target expatriates in the country, said that the dental services offered to expatriates are not exempted from the decision to increase fees for health services.

According to report, in this regard, Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi had earlier met dentists to determine the new fees.

Earlier, the assistant undersecretary for dental medicine affairs instructed not to include expats who visit dental clinics in the fee increase.