By RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN, ARAB NEWS STAFF
Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, approved an immediate supply of medicines to Sierra Leone, Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah announced in Riyadh yesterday.
The minister said according to the directive, the Ministry of Health would send a consignment of 20 tons of medicines that would comprise 50 types of pharmaceuticals.
The dispatch will include tablets, capsules, injections, nasal and mouth sprays, body lotions, syrups, antibiotics and salt.
“This is a clear sign of the magnanimity of the crown prince, who spontaneously feels for the deserving Arabs and Muslims throughout the world,” the minister said, adding that such gestures portray the true Islamic teachings that advocate solidarity among Muslims.
“This is a great gesture which indicates the humanitarian sentiments of the crown prince, who really wanted to help people who are currently in need of medicines,” Dr. Sa’ad Ali Al-Garni, consultant of vascular surgery at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, told Arab News yesterday.
Al-Garni, who had just returned from Sierra Leone, said the world Muslim community would definitely appreciate this generosity to help sick people. “The people are really in need of more medicines to lead a healthy life,” the consultant noted.
Al-Garni headed a medical team from Physicians Across Continents (PAC) comprising 30 medics and paramedics.
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Categories: Africa, Saudi Arabia, Western Africa
Let us hope and pray that there are ‘no strings attached’ to this humanitarian aid.
We may recall that General Zia ul Haq offered Gambia a hospital, but with the ‘strings attached’ that Gambia should kick out all teachers, doctors and Missionaries of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. The then Gambian Prime Minister refused this ‘generous offer’ saying that when the members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at came to build schools and hospitals they did not make any conditions.
In Senegal I have stayed in a 5 star hotel ‘donated by King Fahd’. While I have no proof about this it is interesting to notice that the construction of the hotel co-incided with the expulsion of foreign personnel of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at from that country.
May Allah reward the Saudi generosity (if there are no negative ‘strings attached’).