King Abdullah Medical Center in Jeddah – www.moh.gov.sa
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On the day that Egypt announced their first imported MERS case from Saudi Arabia (see Crofsblog Report), KSA’s new Minister of Health - Adel bin Mohammed Faqih – announced this morning in a press release the allocation of three hospitals for the treatment of MERS; one in Riyadh, one in Jeddah, and one in the Eastern Region.
This comes as part of the shake up in the Saudi response to the growing MERS epidemic, which has seen a substantial increase in cases over the past three weeks.
The announcement was tweeted a couple of hours ago from the Saudi MOH twitter account, but we now have additional details from the following Al Riyadh newspaper report:
«Health» three specialty medical centers to confront «Corona»
Saturday 04/26/2014
Jeddah - SPA: Health Minister-designate Adel Fakih, today announced the allocation of three medical centers in Riyadh, Jeddah and the eastern region, as centers specialized to cope with the virus, "Corona" in the Kingdom, within the ministry's plan urgent to contain the current situation concerning the syndrome Middle East respiratory "Corona."
The jurist in a press release today, that complex of King Abdullah Medical Center in Jeddah will be the main center of Coruna, because of the potential medical enjoyed by the center, and to its inclusion of modern equipment in addition to the hospital, Prince Mohammed bin Abdul Aziz in Riyadh, and a complex Dammam Medical Center in the eastern region.
He added, "This step comes as part of the emergency plan designed to contain the spread of the virus and will be followed, God willing, a number of medical procedures preventive and curative, where will these centers play an active role in our plan to counter the virus Corona," as HE stressed that the ministry was considering all possible options to address this the challenge of public health.
And contain medical complexes that have been allocated as centers specialized Corona to 146 beds for intensive care, and all of these complexes equipped rooms isolate equipped with the latest hardware necessary medical and laboratory laboratory as well as outpatient clinics, and will be announced later for specialized medical centers for Corona in other parts of the Kingdom.
