RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has signed an agreement with a civil-society organization to equip intensive-care units (ICUs) for children and adults, emergency departments and surgery sections in seven hospitals in Sudan, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Friday.
The agreement of the project worth SAR5 million was signed by KSrelief Assistant Supervisor General for Operations and Programs Eng. Ahmed bin Ali Al-Baiz at the center’s headquarters in Riyadh.
Under the agreement necessary medical equipment would be provided to seven hospitals in Sudan’s Gezira, Nile River, White Nile and North states.
The equipment includes emergency devices, anesthesia machines, automatic injectors, intensive-care, operating beds, vital-signs monitoring devices and ventilators.
While the agreement would also cover the maintenance of the hospitals which will provide high-quality health service to 7 million people.
The aid is part of Saudi Arabia’s efforts, through its humanitarian arm KSrelief, to support the health sector in Sudan and end the suffering of the Sudanese patients and wounded amid the current humanitarian crisis.
