Saudi Arabia: Disability group extends service to foreign children

Cairo: The board of the Saudi Children with Disability Association, led by Prince Sultan Bin Salman, has agreed to extend the rehabilitation and care services to foreign children, according to an official.

“The Association’s technical rehabilitation committee has set a number of conditions for accepting non-Saudi children,” the group’s executive Dr. Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Tamimi said in a press statement.

These conditions include accepting children with mobility handicaps like toddlers with Down Syndrome and those who underwent bone fracture surgery.

Admitted children are from newborns up to 12 years.

“The child should be able to hear and see with an IQ rate of about 50 per cent,” Al Tamimi said.

Exempted from the 50 per cent condition are children under the age of four as they will have access to full service from the association until their intelligence level can be assessed when they reach the age of four, he added.

The association’s service to non-Saudi children is made available from today at all its branches in return for token fees commensurate with levels of all children, according to the charity.

The number of those children is set at a maximum 20 per cent of the association’s total capacity.