Saudi Arabia - Dust storm causes 1016 people to seek help at hospitals for asthma and respiratory illnesses

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Dust enters the 1000 patients to hospitals Taif
Awad Kdede - Taif
Sunday, 30/03/2014
Hospitals in Taif during the past 24 hours, more than a thousand medical condition because of the dust wave that swept the province and its centers yesterday, raised in Taif hospitals of readiness to deal with such cases. The media spokesman for the health of Taif Siraj Hemaidan that the number of cases of asthma and respiratory crises as a result of dust during 1016 amounted to 24 hours in the case of all reports received by hospitals for emergency and crisis management of all fourteen hospitals and provided necessary remedial service.


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Re: Saudi Arabia - Dust storm causes 1016 people to seek help at hospitals for asthma and respiratory illnesses

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Health Riyadh directed hospitals to prepare for the reception of emergency due to the wave of dust
SPA - Riyadh 04/01/2014 - 02:00:00


Issued Directorate General of Health Affairs in Riyadh issued a circular to all hospitals to prepare a full and increase the number of doctors and nurses in emergency departments to provide appropriate medical services to patients because of the wave of dust witnessed by all cities and provinces of the region.
The Assistant Director General of Health Affairs in Riyadh for therapeutic medicine, Dr. Nasser Al-Dosari readiness of all hospitals to receive emergency cases of respiratory patients, whether elderly or young children because of what they may play the waves of dust from the increase in the number of auditors from respiratory patients, especially asthmatics, indicating that emergency departments are fully equipped to provide full care for patients.
Dr Al Dosari that the effects of the wave of dust that are large on children, particularly as the dust particles volatiles in the atmosphere and outstanding and which are inhaled with the air passing through the nose, larynx, trachea, bronchi, has stabilized some of them at the forefront of breathing apparatus Supreme especially the nose and throat, while undergoing sizes small ones Vtaatady into the respiratory tract and cane industries and then to the bronchi minute, causing difficulty in breathing or pneumonia.
stressed Dr Al Dosari on people with asthma to take the necessary preventive measures using preventive medicines and away as much as possible about the sensitivity of the stimuli, and not to leave the house for patients with asthma, and respiratory tract in such an atmosphere unless necessary, and follow the doctor's instructions carefully, and use of medications to avoid injury crisis usury.

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