Saudi medical team sees patients in Yemen

Sanaa, July 19, SPA -- A Saudi medical team, specialized in cardiac
diseases, started to check patients in Al-Thowarah hospital today,
paving the way for performing some 165 open heart operations for
Yemeni patients.

Dr. Ahmed Qasem Al-Anasi, Manager of the Sanaa-based hospital, said
the surgical operations to be performed over a month come within the
current health cooperation between the two countries.

The team composes 34 specialists, led by Dr. Huwaida bint Obeid
Al-Githami, Head of Heart Surgery Department at Prince Sultan bin
Abdulaziz Center.

This is the second visit of its kind by a Saudi medical team to Yemen
following a three-week-long visit in 2005.