- JEDDAH: The Zamzam Welfare Society for Voluntary Health Services has succeeded in bringing back the smile to Al-Amin, a 33-year-old Sudanese expatriate, who received second and third degree burns while rescuing his wife and children from a house fire.
Al-Amin is back to his normal life after spending three months in bed. He thanked the society and the welfare-loving people in the Kingdom profusely for contributing to his treatment from the burns that affected his social and professional life.
The society, with the help of a number of Saudi philanthropists, paid for Al-Amin's treatment in a private hospital in Jeddah.
According to the Civil Defense, there were 1,801 fires in Jeddah in three months — 720 in October, 491 in November and 590 in December.
They said about 45.76 percent of the fires were started in garbage bins.
According to the figures of the Civil Defense, there were 107 house fires (constituting 18.14 percent of all fires), 31 shop fires (5.25 percent), 66 car fires (11.19 percent) and two fires each in educational institutions and gas stations.
