The First batch of Saudi medical team left this morning King Khalid International Airport for Pakistan to oversee the two Saudi field hospitals ordered by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Aziz to provide medical and humanitarian services to the people affected by the massive floods in Pakistan. The Two field hospitals are comprised of 200 beds with operation rooms, Laboratory and pharmacy, An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a Radiology Unit. The ministry of Health has provided the medical teams with all medical equipments, medical supplies and medications that will assist the medical team in providing the best health care services to the affected persons of the recent floods, said Mansour Nasir Al-Hawasi, Deputy Minister of Health for Executive Affairs in a statement to The Saudi Press Agency. He added that the departed Saudi medical team included a number of specialties' and health professionals. The Second batch of the Saudi Medical Team will be leaving for Pakistan on Thursday, he said while seeing off the First Batch of the Saudi medical team accompanied by Kitab Eid Alotiabi, Director General of the Armed Forces' medical services department and Dr. Saad Al Mehrej from the National Guards' health Affairs.
