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- Aside from medical care, the Saudi Amal Volunteer Program will provide training and educational programs, and offer economic empowerment for people in Syria
RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center launched three volunteer medical programs in Damascus on Thursday.
The programs cover cochlear implants, auditory rehabilitation, pediatric tumors, and osteoporosis and are part of the Saudi Amal Volunteer Program to help the Syrian people, which began Feb. 5 and will run until Feb. 12.
Within the first 48 hours, medical volunteers had successfully performed 22 oncology surgeries, 12 cochlear implant surgeries, four pediatric surgeries, five pediatric orthopedic surgeries, and six orthopedic and joint replacement surgeries.
Aside from medical care, the Saudi Amal Volunteer Program will also provide training and educational programs, and offer economic empowerment for people in need in several Syrian cities. More than 3,000 volunteers have signed up to help.