The Prime Minister, Ali Faleh Al-Zidi, directed today, Saturday, that patients with Type 1 diabetes up to the age of 22 be included in the social protection salary, while emphasizing the importance of providing the necessary health and social care for children suffering from this disease, and offering support to them and their families.
The media office of the Prime Minister stated in a statement received by the News Video Agency that Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zidi received a number of children suffering from diabetes, as part of the Diabetes Friends Association, coinciding with World Diabetes Day, which falls on November 14 each year, and directed that those suffering from Type 1 diabetes, up to the age of 22, be included in the "social protection allowance."
The Prime Minister also instructed, according to the statement, the "Ministry of Health to secure and distribute diabetes testing devices for free among the affected children in all provinces, ensuring ease of monitoring their health status and helping to relieve the burdens on their families."
The Prime Minister also directed "to include the families of children suffering from Type 1 diabetes who do not have housing, in the National Initiative, as part of the Million Residential Land Project, allowing them to benefit from the residential lands provided by the initiative, like other deserving families."
The Prime Minister emphasized "the importance of providing the necessary health and social care for children suffering from this disease, supporting them and their families, and working to overcome the difficulties they face," stressing the "need to enhance community awareness of diabetes and to provide the necessities for dealing with it, enabling those affected to continue their lives normally."
The statement continued that "the children presented - during the meeting - a number of awareness activities related to diabetes, which included messages calling for spreading the culture of dealing with the disease and illustrating ways to coexist with it, as it is a health condition that can be adapted to while continuing life normally."