ABHA — The 1,350-bed King Faisal Medical City in Abha will be fully operational by 2021, said Asir Emir Prince Faisal Bin Khalid following a meeting with health officials. “By 2018, the hospital will have 500 beds,” he said while speaking to reporters.
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JEDDAH — The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that there are around 235 million people suffering from asthma globally and the Saudi Ministry of Health has announced recently that around 10 percent of adults as well as 20 percent of children in the Kingdom have asthma. This means there are 2 million asthma patients in Saudi Arabia, according to experts at a forum organized by the Saudi Thoracic Society at InterContinental Hotel in Jeddah on Friday.
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The MENA region has been hit lately with unruly weather, dust storms and a heat wave with extreme temperatures between 45-50 degrees, and then there are thunderstorms, hail and heavy rain that have even caused devastating flash floods in some areas of Saudi Arabia. High summer temperatures are normal for the area but are still very difficult to bear for many. Not only do these high temperatures make it difficult to go on with day to day errands, chores and work schedules, it’s the dust that is causing allergies with symptoms such as sneezing, irritant cough, breathlessness, nose bleeds, itchy eyes, stuffy nose and sinuses causing headaches. Between 500 million and five billion tons of dust moves around the planet every year, each gram of dust carries millions of bacterial cells.
