Advisor at the Saudi Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid, Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah, met here today the Regional Director of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in France, Regis Savioz. Dr. Al-Rabiah briefed Savioz on relief, and humanitarian programs and activities carried out by the Center in 37 countries around the world. During the meeting, they discussed several topics related to relief and humanitarian works, particularly in Yemen and Syria, and common issues in several areas, notably the health domain. King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid provided 215 tons of dates and 3 tons of winter clothes for a number of districts in Shabwa governorate, Yemen today. The aid was received by Shabwa Governor, Naser Al-Qamishi, who praised in a press statement the efforts of the Kingdom and its continued support through King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid for the people of Shabwa and the Yemeni people in general. King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid has provided excellent health and medical services to Yemenis being affected by the crisis where it has carried out a number of health and medical projects both inside Yemen and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in cooperation with the Ministry of Health as well as in Jordan, in particular in the Red Crescent Society's hospital in Amman and in Sudan in cooperation with the Sudanese Red Crescent. The Center sponsors the treatment of the Yemeni wounded and provided them and their companions with care until their return to their homeland safely, in addition to the establishment of medical clinics in Abkh province in the Republic of Djibouti and its operation to provide necessary and emergency medical care to 2554 Yemeni refugees in the camp therein. The Center has also implemented a number of health projects to treat the Yemeni wounded suffering inside Yemen and provide them with full medical care including treatment, rehabilitation and all medical needs by signing contracts with a number of private hospitals in Taiz and Aden governorates at the expense of the Center in addition to providing full medical care for the Yemeni wounded including medical tests and examinations, operations, medicines and all necessary medics as well as ensuring the accommodation and subsistence of their companions and their movements until the recovery of patients before leaving to Yemen in cooperation with the Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; the Saudi military and specialized hospitals; the Supreme Committee for Relief and the Yemeni government represented by the Ministry of Public Health and Population. King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid has also provided medicines, medical supplies, intravenous solutions and dialysis solutions in the governorates of Aden, Hadramaut, Marib, Sa'ada and Taiz where the number of beneficiaries reached 22,500 Yemenis at a time it has supplied the Yemeni Ministry of Public Health and Population with wheelchairs benefiting 371 beneficiaries. The Center has worked to provide Sudanese medical staff inside Yemen to save the lives of the injured and patients according to medical needs in cooperation with the Sudanese Red Crescent Society and Yemeni Ministry of Public Health and Population. It has also provided and enhanced life-saving emergency medical services to Yemen's most vulnerable women and children to reduce morbidity and mortality benefiting 7,500,000 beneficiaries in collaboration with the World Health Organization. Moreover, King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid has provided insecticides and spraying machines to control desert locusts in order to prevent epidemics and maintain food security in the governorates of Hadramaut, Shabwa, Abyan, Dhala, Marib, Jawf and Mahra in coordination with the Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture and Yemeni High Relief Committee represented by the Yemeni Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. The Center has also provided preventive and curative interventions for life-saving of girls and boys under the age of five in addition to pregnant and lactating women as well as provided educational courses on mine risk and psychosocial support services for children and the affected families. The project benefited 2,700,000 beneficiaries in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid has supported water, sanitation and environmental sanitation services and provided drinking water and sanitation for life-saving of the vulnerable of the displaced inside Yemen and for health facilities in the governorates of Aden, Taiz, Sana'a, Lahj and Ibb. The beneficiaries of this project have reached 13,386,790 persons, in cooperation with the United Kingdom's International Medical Authority and Yemeni Minister of Water and Environment.
