Various historical facts in the field of health policy implemented by the government ever since the days of the Prophet of Islam . shows the truly advanced level . Free medical services provided by the state ( Khilafah ) financed from cash Baitul Mal . The existence of free health care , and the quality of the people is given to all individuals without discrimination is definitely an amazing achievement . It has been run since the days of the Prophet . Eight people from Urainah came to Madinah Islamic states and their faith . Then they suffered spleen disorders . Prophet . Then ordered them admitted to nursing homes , the district -owned cattle grazing in the Baitul Mal Dzi Jidr direction Quba ' , not far from the Baitul Mal camels grazing there . They drink milk and be in place until healthy and recovered . King of Egypt , Muqauqis , never presented a doctor to the Prophet . He made the doctor to serve all Muslims are free . Caliph Umar ibn al - Khattab , establish financing for people with leprosy in the Sham of the Baitul Mal . Caliph al - Walid bin Abdul Malik of the Umayyads built hospitals for the treatment of patients leprosia and leprosy and blindness . The doctors and nurses who care for them are paid from the Baitul Mal . Bani Thulan in Egypt and build a liquor cabinet in which supplied drugs and a variety of beverages . In that place was appointed to serve a medical doctor . Will Durant in The Story of Civilization stated , " Islam has guaranteed all over the world in various hospitals prepare viable while meeting its needs . For example , Bimaristan built by Nur al-Din in Damascus in 1160 have survived for three centuries in treating the sick without payment and providing free medicines . Historians say that the light is still shining never extinguished for 267 years . " According to the Chairman of the International Institute of Islamic Medicine , Husain F Nagamia MD , in the world , which is actually a new hospital was built and developed starting the beginning of the glory of Islam and known as ' Bimaristan ' or ' Maristan ' . Hospitals , although only the early stages and can not really be called RS , was first built during the Caliph al - Walid bin Abdul Malik of the Umayyads . The first true Islamic hospital was built in the era of Caliph Harun ar - Rashid ( 786 AD - 809 AD ) . The concept of the construction of several hospitals in Baghdad and the selection of the place is the brilliant idea of ar Razi , a leading Muslim doctor . Djubair , a historian who visited Baghdad in 1184 AD , depicts that the hospital - a hospital that has a magnificent building and is equipped with modern equipment . According to M. Husain Abdullah , during the Abbasid Caliphate , many hospitals built in Baghdad , Cairo , and Damascus . Also at this time , for the first time , no hospitals running ( sort of ambulance ) . ( M. Husain Abdullah , Dirasat fi al - Fikri al - Islami , p. 88 ) .
According to Dr . Hossam Arafa in his writings , Hospital in Islamic History , at the
end of the 13th century , the hospital has been scattered throughout the Arabian Peninsula . Hospital - the hospital for the first time in the world began storing patient data and medical records . Concept that until now used in hospitals around the world . All were supported by professional medical personnel are either doctors , nurses and pharmacists . Around RS established medical school . RS that there is also a forge where medical students , exchange of medical science , as well as the world center for the development of health and medicine as a whole . Doctor on duty and is physician practice that has met certain qualifications . Caliph al Muqtadi of the Abbasid palace ordered the chief physician , Sinan ibn Thabit , to select 860 doctors who are in Baghdad . Physicians who practice in hospitals licensed only those who pass the rigorous selection . Also ordered the Caliph Abu Yaqub Ibn Osman Said to conduct a similar selection in the area of Damascus , Mecca and Medina . At the time of the Abbasid Caliphate was also for the first time there is a pharmacy . The biggest is the chemist Ibn al - Baithar . At that time , the pharmacist is not allowed to run in the pharmacy profession except after obtaining a license from the state . The pharmacist was bringing drugs from India and from other countries , and they perform a variety of innovations and inventions to discover new medicine