RIYADH: A team of 30 doctors and para medical staff toiled for 10 hours yesterday to separate a pair of Iraqi conjoined twins who were joined at the lower thorax. “The twins, who also shared a liver, were successfully separated this evening, and they are responding well to the post-operation treatment,” Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, who led the team at the King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), said yesterday.
RIYADH: Finance ministers and governors of central banks from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) pledged here yesterday to unify their position against the global financial crisis that is hampering the smooth operation of banks and stock markets in the region. The ministerial-level meeting called for coordinated efforts to shore up confidence of Gulf institutions and individuals. “The finance ministers discussed the mechanisms of coordination to protect the economies of the Gulf states,” said GCC Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Al-Attiyah. The emergency meeting’s main agenda was to discuss coordination of GCC states’ responses to a global downturn that threatens to stop the region’s six-year economic boom.
They include a GCC infection control conference and an infection control course designed and conducted by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). The five-day events, to be opened in Riyadh on Oct. 17, will be attended by a panel of international experts as well as delegates from the Kingdom’s medical world.
The Luxembourg-based EU’s General Court struck down an order freezing the funds of Al-Qadi, suspected of links with Al-Qaeda, saying that his rights had been violated.