Healthcare | Tuesday 12 May, 2020 3:29 am

Ministry of Defense Builds Two Mobile Hospitals to Support Health Efforts

In line with the leadership's directives to harness all capabilities to safeguard the health of citizens and expatriates, the Ministry of Defense, represented by the General Department for Medical Services of the Armed Forces, has built two mobile hospitals with 100-bed capacity in Makkah to...

More Details

Healthcare | Saturday 9 May, 2020 1:24 am

Ministry of Health Announces WhatsApp Service for its Contact Center 937

The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced WhatsApp service for its contact center 937 in its first stage. The service will only be provided on Chat Pot (interactive chat) through WhatsApp number 920005937.MOH stated that at the beginning of the conversation, the following services will be shown:...

More Details

Healthcare | Wednesday 6 May, 2020 1:17 pm

Pfizer and BioNTech Dose First Participants in the U.S. as Part of Global COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development Program

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced today that the first participants have been dosed in the U.S. in the Phase 1/2 clinical trial for the BNT162 vaccine program to prevent COVID-19. The trial is part of a global development program, and the dosing of the first cohort in...

More Details

Healthcare | Wednesday 6 May, 2020 6:46 am

Minister of Health: Deaths Rate with Coronavirus in Saudi Arabia is very Low

Minister of Health Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has confirmed that the death rate with the Coronavirus in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is very low, as the global deaths rate reached 7 percent, while less than 0,7 percent in Saudi Arabia.His Excellency said in a speech that reads as follows:First of all, I...

More Details

Healthcare | Sunday 3 May, 2020 2:17 am

KSA Ministry of Health Leads Advance Clinical Studies, on 4 Innovative Techniques for Coronavirus Treatment

The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) conducts advanced clinical studies, in seven different centers, at the several hospitals, across the Kingdom, to combat novel Coronavirus.The process have been launched, coincidently, at King Faisal Specialist...

More Details

Healthcare | Thursday 30 April, 2020 12:05 pm

Julphar resumes sales of products in KSA

Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries PSC (Julphar), one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the Middle East and Africa, has announced that the company’s exports to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will resume again. The announcement comes after the successful inspection of Julphar’s...

More Details

Healthcare | Tuesday 28 April, 2020 3:15 pm

KACST, Weqaya Launch Initiative to Study Genetic Factors Behind Symptoms Variation of COVID-19 Cases

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), in partnership with the Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Weqaya), have launched an initiative to study and determine the genetic factors that cause variation of symptoms of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) among Saudis, as part ...

More Details

Healthcare | Tuesday 28 April, 2020 7:28 am

Nahdi Medical and Ismail Ali Abudawood Trading Co. donate revenues from the sale of health and medical products to Zmzm Association

Nahdi Medical, the leading Saudi pharmaceutical retailer, has collaborated with Ismail Ali Abudawood Trading Co. in a campaign during which Nahdi guests buying Procter and Gamble (P&G) products will see part of their payments going to charity. Ismail Ali Abudawood Trading Co....

More Details

Healthcare | Sunday 26 April, 2020 3:06 am

Saudi G20 Presidency Welcomes the Launch of “Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator” Initiative

The Saudi G20 Presidency welcomes the launch of “Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator”, a landmark, global and timely collaboration for the accelerated development, production and equitable access to new COVID-19 tools.The ACT Accelerator initiative will be a global platform for action to ...

More Details

Healthcare | Sunday 26 April, 2020 3:05 am

The first largest virtual world dental conference concludes with thousands of medical participants around the world attending

The Saudi Dental Society has conducted the first and largest virtual  Dental Conference around the world, with senior lecturers from the most prestigious universities in the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia were contacted to give continuous lectures for 11 hours a day ...

More Details