JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the construction of two medical cities in Riyadh and Jeddah under the Ministry of Interior, Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Naif announced yesterday.
"King Abdullah's gesture reflects his care for the security officers and their families," the minister said, adding that the two medical cities would provide specialized health services to all citizens in the Kingdom.
Prince Muhammad said the two medical cities, with advanced facilities and specialist doctors, would receive patients transferred from other hospitals including the ministry's hospitals in different parts of the country.
"There is a plan to establish a network of hospitals under the ministry as part of efforts to provide integrated medical services," the prince said. "The two medical cities in Riyadh and Jeddah were planned to provide specialized health services to the ministry's staff and security officers," he added. Prince Muhammad thanked the king for the gesture.
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Simple Eye Scan can Predict How Quickly Multiple Sclerosis Patients will Decline
A quick and easy eye test could offer an effective way of measuring how fast multiple sclerosis is progressing in someone with the disease.
Researchers performed scans on 164 M.S patients that measured the thickness of the lining at the back of the eye.
The team from John Hopkins University found patients with thinning of the retina had both earlier and more active forms of the disease.
The scan, known as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), takes just a few minutes per eye and can be performed at a GPs surgery.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord, causing problems with muscle movement, balance and vision.
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Abdulaziz Al-Awad, deputy executive manager at the National Guard Health Affairs and head of employment of persons with special needs, announced a special committee for the employment of persons with special needs had been set up in compliance with the directions of the Royal Court to engage persons with handicaps in the development march toward the Saudization of jobs.
In his opening speech during the launch of the awareness campaign of the World Day for Persons with Disabilities at King Abdul Aziz Medical City in Jeddah, he stressed on the social responsibility of his department and on the promotion of equality in job opportunities. He said the special committee that had been formed for this purpose included members of different departments and institutions.
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A simple eye test may offer a fast and easy way to monitor patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), medical experts say in the journal Neurology.
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a scan that measures the thickness of the lining at the back of the eye - the retina.
It takes a few minutes per eye and can be performed in a doctor's surgery.
In a trial involving 164 people with MS, those with thinning of their retina had earlier and more active MS.
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The accused doctor has also returned to Jeddah and was questioned about the circumstances of the case, while the medical team who were in attendance has been banned from traveling.
The health directorate said a committee was formed to review the case and it will decide if the child's death was due to malpractice.
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An NHS hospital has apologised to 38 families after a patient starved to death and it left other dying people screaming in pain.
Alexandra Hospital in Redditch is writing to 38 families after a massive legal action that exposed years of bad practice, ranging from nurses taunting patients to leaving an elderly woman unwashed for 11 weeks.
In one of the worst cases, a man had starvation recorded as the cause of his death after being treated at the hospital for two months.
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, said last night that he was "disgusted and appalled" by what the families had been through, and that the Government was acting to ensure that failings in care were detected more quickly.
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Separated Twins in Good Health, Says Health Minister
Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said the condition of the twins he separated last Friday is stable.
Al-Rabeeah visited them at the King Abdul Aziz Medical City of the National Guard on Thursday.
A team led by Al-Rabeeah undertook the operation on Abdullah and Salman at the order of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
The parents of the twins were also present during the minister's visit.
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Fungal Meningitis Patients: A Long Road to Recovery
Johnnie McKee thought she was out of the woods.
McKee, a 72-year-old grandmother of four from Bethpage, Tenn., was one of nearly 14,000 people who found out this fall that they'd been exposed to tainted medications made by the now shuttered New England Compounding Center.
In her case, the threat came from a steroid shot that she'd had on Sept. 7 to relieve some nagging back pain.
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MAKKAH Makkah Municipality announced full mobilization to combat dengue, after the death of a woman who was infected with the disease.
Residents have complained of stagnant water pools that provide the ideal germination location for mosquitoes, and called for immediate action.
Makkah hospitals recorded one death and a number of suspected infections of the virus.
Teams of the municipality branches have responded to complaints of residents, and began to intensify the spraying of pesticides. Areas that recorded infections will be targeted first.
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