RIYADH: Thousands have recently benefitted from the volunteer medical services provided by the Kingdom’s aid agency KSrelief in Yemen and Mauritania, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday.
In September, mobile clinics in the Haradh district of Yemen’s Hajjah governorate provided medical services more than 2,000 people.
Among those treated were 732 patients who received preventive care for epidemic diseases.
The emergency clinic treated 391 patients, while 314 individuals received treatment in the internal medicine clinic.
Medical staffers in the Al-Gharza area treated 884, 631, 532 and 35 people in the emergency, internal medicine, infectious diseases, and surgery and dressing clinics and departments, respectively.
Additionally, the nursing services department treated 588 patients, medicines were dispensed to 2,047 individuals, and the awareness and education clinic assisted eight individuals.
Eight waste-disposal activities were also carried out.
Also, 19 patients benefited from reproductive health services, and eight individuals participated in awareness and education sessions.
In terms of ancillary services, 712 people received nursing care, 1,399 individuals were provided with medication, 72 patients received care in the surgery and dressing clinic, and eight waste-disposal activities were completed.
In addition, 321 specialized operations were carried out in Nema, Mauritania from Oct. 9 to 16.
The medical team members, who are a part of the Saudi Noor volunteer program to combat vision-related conditions, screened 3,150 individuals and provided spectacles for 825 during the period.
