KSrelief clinics treat 2,483 refugees in Jordan, deliver dialysis machines in Yemen

Health workers at a KSrelief medical clinic attend to a patient at the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees on Sunday. (SPA)
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  • Patients treated at Jordan’s Zaatari camp, and in Yemen’s Marib and Harib

RIYADH: The Kingdom’s aid agency KSrelief treated 2,483 Syrian refugees at the Al-Zaatari camp in Jordan during the first week of November, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday.

KSrelief’s emergency clinic treated 253 patients, the cardiology clinic 27 patients, and the internal medicine clinic 122 patients with diabetes, hypertension and asthma.

Several others were treated for various ailments, including 285 children.

In Yemen, KSrelief delivered the third batch of dialysis machines and medical supplies to the Ministry of Public Health and Population office in Marib governorate on Saturday.

The batch, weighing approximately 30 tonnes, is to support the dialysis centers at two hospitals in the Marib and Harib areas, the SPA reported.

Dr. Ahmed Saleh Al-Abadi, health director in Marib, praised ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ for supporting medical programs in Yemen for more than a decade.