22Jun2005 Prince Naif Orders Treatment of Palestinian Child

Riyadh, 22 June 2005

Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz, the Interior Minister and the General Supervisor of the Saudi Committee for the Palestinian Peoples' Relief, has ordered the treatment of Mahmood Anwar Al-Asa, a Palestinian child, in one of Saudi Arabia's specialist hospitals to treat an increase in the blood pressure in his eyes.

The Advisor of the Interior Minister and the Chairman of the Committee, Sa'aed Al-Orabi Al-Harthi, said this directive was in response to a call from the boy's mother to the Committee to help treat her son who is at risk of blindness.

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