Temper tantrums resulting in road accidents and fights account for 80 percent of the injury reports received by the Saudi Red Crescent Society (SRCS) before Iftar at sunset and Suhoor near daybreak, a senior official said. Ahmad Muhammad Al-Sarwani, SRCS Director of Operations, said that during these times Red Crescent ambulances are fully engaged in transporting the injured to hospital or treating them on site. Having to respond to every crisis call, SRCS field staff seldom get a chance to be with their families for Iftar or Suhoor, Al-Sarwani said. But at the Red Crescent Operations Room in Makkah, there was nobody complaining. Instead, staffers Basim Al-Ghamdi, Fahd Al-Malki and Abdullah Shareefi they accept increased workload in Ramadan as an essential service that must be rendered. “We are happy to provide our services to the public when they need us most,” Al-Ghamdi said. Ambulance driver Attiyah Al-Dhibyani said his high-tension work of rushing the injured to hospital as safely and quickly as possible could do with more cooperation from motorists who must grant him those extra vital seconds, whether it's nearing Iftar or Suhoor, that might save a life.
