JEDDAH, 22 June 2007 — Two weeks remain until the World Health Survey that is taking place in Saudi Arabia for the first time finishes. The survey began four weeks ago, according to the Ministry of Health, and included 5283 families or 50 percent of the randomly chosen 10900 families. “The survey aims to give a clear picture of the health of the Saudi population as well as the most common genetic diseases in the country,” said Ghazi Jilani, assistant deputy health minister for research and planning. Some 147 teams are collecting information for the survey. A number of officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) are training workers under the supervision of the Health Ministry on using the Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) to enter the results of the survey after the field work is done.
