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KSrelief Launches 3 Health Projects in Sudan

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has inaugurated three health projects in Port Sudan. SPA
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has inaugurated three health projects in Port Sudan. SPA
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KSrelief Launches 3 Health Projects in Sudan

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has inaugurated three health projects in Port Sudan. SPA
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has inaugurated three health projects in Port Sudan. SPA

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has inaugurated three health projects in Port Sudan in the presence of Saudi Ambassador to Sudan Ali bin Hassan Jafar, Sudanese Minister of Health Dr. Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, Sovereignty Council member Lieutenant-General Bahri Ibrahim Jaber Ibrahim, and a KSrelief team.

The first project aims to support Al-Abyadh Specialist Hospital for Children with an oxygen station to generate and distribute oxygen, benefiting 25,000 individuals.

The second project seeks to support government hospitals affiliated with the Sudanese Health Ministry with a dialysis machine, benefiting 3,960 individuals.

Under the third project, medical equipment will be provided to children’s hospitals affiliated with the Patient Support Fund, with the goal of reducing deaths and filling the major shortage of medical equipment in Kasla Hospital and Al-Obeid Hospital, benefiting 200,000 individuals directly and indirectly.

These efforts come within the humanitarian and relief projects the Kingdom extends to needy countries and peoples around the world through its humanitarian arm, KSrelief.

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Taiwan’s Representative to Saudi Arabia: 260,000 Pagers Exported in Two Years

Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Taiwan’s Representative to Saudi Arabia: 260,000 Pagers Exported in Two Years

Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Taiwan is investigating who is responsible for modifying the pagers that were turned into explosives in the hands of the Lebanese people, including members of Hezbollah.

Taiwan’s representative to Saudi Arabia Samee Chang told Asharq Al-Awsat that 260,000 pagers were exported from his country between 2022 and 2024, and 16 percent of them were sent to the United States and Europe.

He expressed his regret that the pagers were planted with explosives that were used in the attack in Lebanon last month, clarifying that the devices were not directly exported from Taiwan to Lebanon.

He explained that the components of the device are made of material that is not liable to explode.

Apollo Gold, the Taiwanese company that exported the pagers between 2022 and 2024, has never received any complaints that its devices have caused harm or exploded.

The attack in Lebanon has raised several questions and they are being probed by authorities in Taiwan, he went on to say.

One thing is for certain, the devices were not harmful in the shape they were exported from the country, stressed Chang.

Asked about whether the attack may harm Taiwan’s economy, he replied that his country’s industry sector has a strong reputation that will be difficult to undermine given the trust it has from clients.

The size of the sector and Taiwan’s investments cannot be measured by a small number of pagers, as they only make up a mere fraction in the country’s trade relations with countries all over the world, he stressed.

Separately, Chang revealed that Taiwan was considering cooperation with Saudi Arabia in the chip industry, saying he was optimistic over the broad potential for cooperation in the technology sector.

There are no limits to the cooperation between them, he added.

Taiwan constantly wants to maintain the relations and discuss opportunities for joint investments, he stated.

Taiwan was among the first countries to leap to cooperate with Saudi Arabia in all fields to help the Kingdom achieve its Vision 2030 that is spearheaded by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Chang said.