The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host on October 27-29, 2009 the first Arab gulf conference on the safety of patients under the patronage of Prince Khalid al-Faisal, the Governor of Makkah region. The conference will be attended by a number of regional and international organizations from the various parts of the world. Dr Tawfiq Khoja, the director general of the executive bureau of the council of the GCC health ministers, said the organization of the conference comes within the framework of the scientific conferences approved by the GCC health ministers.