JEDDAH - More than 30 thousand tons of medical waste are produced in the Kingdom each year, Adel Badib, the Managing Director of SEBCO Environment, pointed out during the launching of the National Saudi Program to Treat Medical Waste here on Monday.

A swine flu victim was not detected by thermal scanners as he passed through Dubai International Airport, an Emirates Airlines
spokesman has confirmed.

CAIRO, May 18, 2009 (AFP) - A four-year-old girl on Monday died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, bringing to 27 the number of deaths from the disease in Egypt, the health ministry said.

NEW DELHI, May 16, 2009 (AFP) - India on Saturday confirmed its first swine flu case after a 23-year-old man who had flown to Hyderabad from New York tested positive for the virus.

AMMAN - The Kingdom continues to be free of the new A series H1N1 influenza (swine flu), the Health Ministry said on Saturday, stressing that it will maintain procedures adopted to avert an outbreak in the country.

DOHA: A majority of the participants in an online survey conducted by Al Sharq said they were not satisfied with the preventive health services in Qatar.

JEDDAH: Umrah visas are not being issued to pilgrims from Egypt and Malaysia as a precautionary measure to tackle swine flu, said an official from the company that handles pilgrims in the Kingdom.

A passenger on a flight from Dubai has been confirmed as India’s first case of swine flu. The 23-year-old technology worker flew from New York to Dubai and took a transit flight to Hyderabad in India, where health inspectors took him in for monitoring.

ABU DHABI — The Shaikh Khalifa Medical City aims to be the first hospital in the Middle East to receive Magnet accreditation, an internationally-recognised award for nursing excellence and leadership.

The swine flu scare seems to have prompted several holiday makers from Qatar either to drop their travel plans this summer or change destinations, according to travel industry sources.