In brief [Archives:2007/1070/Local News]
SANA'A
400 free medical treatments
July 21 ) Concluding Friday, the 15th charitable medical camp for finding blindness and eye diseases resulted in treating 400 cases and carrying out 76 surgeries. The camp was organized by Al-Nibras Helath Association at the medical center in Bani Hout in the Capital Secretariat. Ten doctors and specialist physicians participated in the camp along with 20 personnel throughout four days of continuous work. The care included prescribing treatments, providing medicines, spectacles, and awareness sessions.
Five all-girls technical institutes to be established
July 22 ) Minister of Technical and Vocational Training Dr. Ibrahim Hajri confirmed that his Ministry is currently studying to establish five technical and vocational institutes just for girls. The institutes will be in different governorates and will be designed in order to empower women and provide them with better opportunities for generating income.
DHAMAR
Otma flora preservation
July 21 ) Otma is one of the hill stations in Dhamar where rare plants and rich flora is found. The General Authority for Environmental Protection has set up a plan to create preservation in Otama for wild and rare plants in order to be used scientifically and for tourism purposes. The authority has already submitted sketches for the natural preservation to the Ministry of Tourism in order to seek investors to fund this project and give it the attention it deserves.
3 million cubic meters of rainwater reserved
July 21 ) Thirty of the dams and reservoirs in Dhamar are storing around 3 million and 732 thousand cubic meters of rain water. This is 60 % additional capacity for the dams which can store up to five million and a half cubic meters of water. Currently there are 67 dams and reservoirs under construction with a total cost of a billion and half Yemeni Riyals.
HUDEIDAH
The second Eritrean refugees' relief campaign
July 21 ) The second Eritrean refugees' relief campaign concluded this week at Hudeidah governorate. The campaign was carried out by Shiekh Eid bin Mohammad Al Thani, a Qatari Prince, and in cooperation with Al-Rushed Yemeni Charity. It included distribution of supplies to 1200 refugees from Eritrea as well as providing a medical health care for them. The campaign also sponsored digging two wells for drinking water.
Tihama Valley witnesses an increase of water level
July 21 ) Because of the continuous rainfall between in the period of July 3-18, the level of rain fall has reached 22405 millimeters and the flood flow has reached 48 million, 932 thousand, and 908 cubic meters.
Wadi Moor in Tihama Valley has taken up the first place in rain level as the flood flow reached 23 million, 253 thousand cubic meters.
ADEN
Confiscating more than 6 tons of expired foodstuff
July 20 ) During the first quarter of this year, the environmental health office in Aden has confiscated six tons and 360 kilograms of expired foodstuffs in addition to 670 bundles of food products violating the standard health requirements. Simultaneously the general works office collected fines against hygiene and cleanliness standards reaching YR 650 thousands for the first quarter of 2007. The environmental health authority has been active this year as it has carried out 62 spraying campaigns to eradicate mosquitoes and cleaned 121potential breeding locations so far.
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