- AL-HOFUF: The head of the Health Affairs Department in Al-Ahsa has slammed a member of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) after he allegedly tried to stop men and women employees mixing at a local medical center, Al-Watan Arabic daily reported.
Hussein Al-Ruwaili criticized the commission member’s actions after he illegally entered the center in the Al-Khaldeya district south of the city, accompanied by a police guard.
He said that the center is investigating the incident and trying to identify the man so that action is taken against him. Officials at the health center complained that the commission member did not follow appropriate procedures.
Al-Ruwaili said that the Health Affairs Department is liaising with the commission office in Al-Ahsa, adding that this was the first such incident recorded in the area.

