Private medical college planned

RIYADH, 19 March — Efforts are under way to establish a private medical college in Riyadh in cooperation with Dar Al-Faisal University — an affiliate of King Faisal Charitable Foundation — and the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Canada. Dr. Abdullah Al-Dhalaan, executive director for academic affairs and higher studies at Dar Al-Faisal, told Arab News that a committee has been set up to study the establishment of the new college at King Faisal Specialist Hospital.