The Secretariat general of the Cooperative health insurance council has announced connecting the issuance or Iqama renewal to the availability of health insurance for all members of the family of the resident worker in the private sector; and the provision of health security to all members of the resident’s worker family is considered a basic condition to issue or renew the Iqama for any of them after the electronic linking with the related parties has been done through linking the health insurance with Iqama No. of every member of the resident’s family members.
The Secretariat general of the Cooperative health insurance council Dr. Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Alsherif stated that this step comes as completion to the technology system in connecting the family members of Non-Saudis in the private sector as those insured have amounted to more than 10 million in 29 insurance company.
He stated that Cooperative health insurance system is aiming to provide and organize health care for all resident non Saudis in the Kingdom and the health insurance coverage includes all those to whom this system applies and the members of their families according to the stipulations of paragraph (B) of the fifth article.
Alsherif added that if the employer did not subscribe or did not pay the installments of the Cooperative health insurance for his worker for whom this system applies and his family members who are included with him in the health insurance document he will be obligated to pay all the due installments in addition to pay a financial fine for every individual with the possibility of forbidding him from workers recruitment for a temporary or a permanent period according to article 14 of the Cooperative health insurance regulation.
From his part the manager of information technology department Engineer Ahmed Aldammas that the related parties (The general directorate of passports , the National information center, Alalam company for information security) has exerted a distinguished effort in developing the technical aspects to complete connecting and linking according to the approved specifications that has participated in raising the level of the efficiency of direct data transfer mechanism between insurance companies and the National information center, passports department, Alalam company, and the Secretariat general of the Cooperative health insurance council.
He added that the record of the family’s supporter of the resident labor force will be stopped at the passports until insurance for all the individuals belonging to him is complete in the resident’s ID record and through this the family’s supporter will be able to finalize the transaction of issuing or renewing the Iqama
