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King to open 500-bed hospital in Riyadh

April 20, 2013

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Riyadh, Apr 20: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah will open the 500-bed Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital in Riyadh on April 28, Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah announced here yesterday.

The hospital cost SR 455 million to build and is located on 120,000 square meters.

The minister thanked King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, for helping to complete the project on time.

The hospital was originally named the Eastern Riyadh Hospital, but was subsequently changed to Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz Hospital by King Abdullah in November 2011.

Al-Rabeeah said the hospital is a world-class facility. It is situated in the Al-Rayan district in the east of the capital and consists of five floors and has 15 operating theaters and one for emergency surgeries.

The other facilities are a radiology unit, mammogram screening section, a center for burns, laboratory, blood bank, physiotherapy section, rehabilitation treatment department, and an emergency unit with 102 beds, the largest such section in the region.

Health ministry spokesman Khalid Al-Mirghalani told Arab News yesterday that the facility is one of the city's largest hospitals, and strategically located to serve citizens and residents in the eastern part of Riyadh. It was built and designed according to stringent US standards.

The ground floor of the hospital consists of the main lobby, the administration, medical records, library, classrooms, lecture hall, procurement and finance department, dining halls, laboratories, blood bank, radiology unit, the emergency unit, and the rehabilitation center (physical therapy). The outpatient clinics cover internal medicine, respiratory ailments, pediatrics, gynecology, dentistry, diabetes, urology, dermatology and kidney diseases.

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January 3,2020

Hong Kong, Jan 3: Oil prices soared more than four per cent Friday following claims that the US had killed a top Iranian general, ratcheting up tensions between the foes and fuelling fears of a conflict in the crude-rich region.

The head of Iran's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, was hit in an attack on Baghdad international airport early Friday, according to Hased, a powerful Iraqi paramilitary force linked to Tehran.

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March 24,2020

Riyadh, Mar 24: General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) on Tuesday asked all expatriates in the Kingdom, who have a final exit visa or an exit and reentry visa, to quickly cancel them before their expiry. This is to avoid the prescribed fines for not availing of these visas before their expiry date, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

The new measure was taken following the Saudi government’s suspension of international flights as part of the preventive and precautionary measures to stem the spread of new coronavirus. The Jawazat asked expatriates to verify the validity of such visas and cancel them through Ministry of Interior’s electronic service portals of Absher or Muqeem.

It underlined the need to adhere to the regulations and instructions in order to avoid fines prescribed by law against the violators.

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January 11,2020

Muscat, Jan 11: Oman's Culture and Heritage Minister, Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, took oath as country's Sultan on Saturday following the demise of Qaboos bin Said al-Said, the country's government confirmed on Saturday.

Sputnik quoted a report by sultanate's Al-Roya newspaper as saying that the new Sultan " affirmed the continuation of the country's modernisation and development in various fields."

The development comes after Qaboos bin Said, who had served as the ruler of Oman since 1970, died Friday at the age of 79.

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had condoled Qaboos's demise and remembered him as the "beacon of peace for India and the world". 

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