Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ordered the building of a medical city affiliated to the Arab Gulf University in Bahrain as a gift in the name of the Saudi people to the peoples of Bahrain and the GCC countries with a sum of one billion Saudi riyals. This was stated to Saudi Press Agency by president of the university Dr. Khalid bin Abdulrahman Alo'ohali who said that the university named the medical city as "King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Medical City."