RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has distributed 1,050 Ramadan food baskets in Sudan and provided medical care to 474 people in Yemen.
On Saturday, the center handed out 1,050 Ramadan food packages in Wad Banda and Al-Fula, towns located in West Kordofan state, Sudan, as part of the Ramadan Eta’am initiative to provide 156,993 food baskets — together weighing 8,430 tons — in 19 countries, benefiting 901,463 people.
KSrelief was continuing its food distribution and medical aid work through the start of Ramadan and had 653 projects dedicated solely to food security.
In Sudan alone, the center was operating 12 food security and aid programs costing more than $7.8 million.
Mobile clinics have also been set up by KSrelief and between March 16 and 22, the center treated 474 patients in Haradh, a district of the Hajjah Governorate in Yemen located six kilometers from the Saudi border.
The epidemiological control clinic received 134 patients, the nursing department 83, the in-patient clinic 77, the emergency department 11, the reproductive health clinic 10, the education clinic six, the medical referral department four, and the surgery department three people. Medication was given out to around 235 patients.
The center has a total of 684 projects in Yemen, with 318 relating to aid in health, that form part of its mission to become a leading platform for global relief and humanitarian activities.