NAJRAN – Arrangements are under way to implement the projects of the medical city in Najran region at a cost of over SR230 million.

Centers Set Up to Help Students Overcome ‘Flood Phobia’

JEDDAH – To help students overcome the trauma of the Nov. 25 Black Wednesday floods that ravaged parts of the Bride of the Red Sea, Jeddah Health Affairs and the Ministry of Health have jointly established three psychological support centers in the city.

Salem Al-Towairaqy, head of the educational guidance department at Jeddah education directorate, told Saudi Gazette that at the beginning of this semester, support centers were set up in Ibn Hazm high school (Kilo10 District), Abi Ishaq school (Quwaizah District) and Al-Derayeah school (Kilo 14 District). The centers are manned by social and psychological specialists from the ministries of Health and Education for four hours daily and aim to deal with what experts have termed “flood phobia”, Al-Towairaqy said.

JEDDAH/TAIF/DHAMAD – Residents and shop workers in a southern Jeddah district are accustomed to seeing Muhammad Sultan running around in the streets scratching his body.

 

His elderly mother blames herself for her only child’s condition. “For 16 years he has suffered from mental illness. I noticed his silence and introversion but I thought it would go away, until he was fired from his job because he had been absent. Maybe my failure to take him to doctors when it first occurred made his suffering worse,” she said.

 

In Collaboration with SFDA: King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center Inaugurates the International Radiology Conference

In the presence of H.E. Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Food & Drug Authority and H.E Dr. Qassim Al Qassabi, General Executive Supervisor of KFSH&RC, the International Radiology Conference and Exhibition was inaugurated at KFSH&RC on 16/0/1431AH corresponding to the 2nd. of March 2010G.