King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, on Monday issued directives to extend assistance to Burkina Faso to enable the country to make additional serum available for the treatment of meningitis and vaccination against the disease. The gesture of King Abdullah comes in response to a message from Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso, expressing appreciation for the assistance extended by the Kingdom to confront the menace of meningitis in his country. President Compaore said his country was in need of additional serum for carrying out the required vaccination campaigns. Earlier the Kingdom made 500,000 vaccination units against meningitis available to the African nation. They were sent from Riyadh to Burkina Faso and delivered by the Saudi embassy there to the concerned officials.
