Epidemiological Monitoring Department to be set up in Kingdom

Riyadh, 15 Feb 08

Assistant Undersecretary of Health Ministry for Preventive Medicine, Dr. Khaled Al-Zahrani, said that the Ministry's Agency is currently in the process of establishing Epidemiological Monitoring Department to discover the epidemiological situation before its wide spreading any region.

In a press statement, he pointed out that this department will be separated from Department of Infectious Diseases aiming to strengthen epidemiological surveillance.

Dr. Al-Zahrani revealed that the ministry is implementing a new vision of dispatching awareness ambassadors to health centers, indicating that the idea was implemented in Hajj by dispatching 200 awareness ambassadors to guide establishments to enlighten pilgrims.