毕马威：2020年沙特阿拉伯财务预算报告（英文版）.pdf

1、1 2020 KPMG Al Fozan tracks of high schools and specialized academies, e-learning and distance education, digital transformation and information security, teacher preparation programs, education for people with special needs, early childhood and elementary grades, and transforming community colleges

2、 into colleges that grant an applied diploma. There is also more focus on for scholarships, both to drive inclusivity and to strive for academic excellence. Healthcare and Social Development Expenditure in the healthcare sector was most acutely impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak, as the virus sparked

3、 a sudden demand to an emergency response to take care of those affected, while new health and safety procedures were implemented. The government also decided to fund COVID-19 treatments for everyone affected citizen, residents, visitors, even those staying in the Kingdom undocumented as well as fun

4、d quarantine stays in hotels both for those inside the country and citizens abroad. Extra expenditure on the COVID-19 was both taken from a centrally allocated emergency budget and some diverted from existing and planned healthcare budgets. Indeed, some of the spending on the healthcare transformati

5、on was delayed as a result of the pandemic, though at the end of 2020, the Ministry of Health indicates strong efforts to put the transformation back on track, thus we expect traction to pick up again in 2021. The net impact of the outbreak in 2020 was to cause estimated Healthcare spending to fall

6、by 8.5%, compared with the 12.1% fall originally planned, reflecting in part lower social development outlays. The budget for Healthcare and Social Development in 2021 is set to increase by 4.6% to SAR 175 billion, from SAR 167 billion budgeted in 2020. Efforts to separate the payor, provider and re