{"id":222569,"date":"2023-05-27T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T07:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=222569"},"modified":"2023-05-27T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T07:55:22","slug":"kenya-saudi-arabia-seek-to-expand-health-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=222569","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, Saudi Arabia seek to expand health cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kbc.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/saudia.jpeg?fit=1600%2C1066&amp;ssl=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kbc.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/saudia.jpeg?resize=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"saudia\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Kenya Khalid bin Abdullah Al- Salman greets cardiologists at KNH.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NAIROBI, May 27 (NNN-KBC) &#8212; <strong>Saudi Arabia has expressed its commitment to enhance cooperation with Kenya in the health sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Kenya Khalid bin Abdullah Al- Salman said his country will continue to expand further bilateral relationship engagement in the health sector for the benefit of the two nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at Kenyatta National Hospital during an impromptu tour of the cardiology clinic where specialist doctors from Saudi Arabia and KNH successfully operated on 25 patients with heart complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Monday, Kenyatta National Hospital\u2019s Cardiology Clinic Department was a beehive of activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiologist from Saudi Arabia in conjunction with their Kenyan counterparts were attending to free surgery on patients with congenital heart disease at the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambassador Khalid bin Abdullah Al- Salman visited the facility to have a firsthand on the philanthropic gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctors had managed to attend to 25 out of 35 patients with congenital heart disease at the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The free surgery was courtesy of the Saudi Development Bank (SDB) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre. &#8212; NNN-KBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, May 27 (NNN-KBC) &#8212; Saudi Arabia has expressed its commitment to enhance cooperation with Kenya in the health sector. Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Kenya Khalid bin Abdullah Al- Salman said his country will continue to expand further bilateral relationship engagement in the health sector for the benefit of the two nations. He was speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222571,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569\/revisions\/222571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}