Newborns being screened for 16 diseases In Saudi Arabia

According to statistics that have been recently done by the Ministry of Health, the Kingdom has the highest rate of disability-causing diseases at birth, as the ratio is one to 1,000, while in other countries, like the US, Germany and Australia, the ratio is 1 to 4,000, and in Japan 1 in 7,000. Therefore now in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Program for Early Screening for the Newborn, managed by the Prince Salman Center for Disability Research and sponsored by the Ministry of Health, screens newborns for 16 different diseases and helps scientists and researchers in their research to remedy many hereditary diseases.

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