As part of its social responsibility towards our sons and daughters in schools, the hospital undertakes many annual initiatives to support school activities, conduct awareness visits, and provide material and moral support to sponsor initiatives and lectures within schools in Jeddah Governorate in order to communicate correct concepts about health care and preventive medicine that are instilled with young people to be a building block for a conscious and healthy family in the future.
During the year, the hospital received a number of visits from schools within the program of the cultural forum of the Emirate of Makkah, How to be a role model? To raise awareness about the importance of self-care, and through these visits, a number of internal programs were presented to children about the correct concepts of health care at home and at school, and internal visits to a number of clinics and operating rooms to provide an initial concept that helps to understand and know the extent of the effort made by the hospital and doctors to provide health care services in addition to seeing many modern medical devices and how they are used to detect diseases, as well as implementing simplified recreational activities.
Awareness lectures were also presented on the role of the doctor, the importance of studying medical specialties and their reflection on meeting the needs of the internal labor market and the magnitude of the humanitarian role of the doctor in removing the pain of patients and bringing happiness to the patient’s family and loved ones. In addition to reviewing the achievements that have been recorded in the names of Saudi male and female doctors around the world and motivating male and female students to choose the medical field as a scientific and study path that suits the needs and demands of the labor market.
Social responsibility is an ongoing commitment
Health awareness and better care for the future generation
It is noteworthy that within the knowledge measurement standard that the hospital follows within the awareness programs it provides to our sons and daughters in schools, and within a questionnaire survey, it was found that the knowledge rate of male and female students after the implementation of these visits increased to 80% for males and 88% for females, double (40% before implementing the visits and awareness program), about their knowledge of common transmissible diseases and how the possibility of transmission can be eliminated by up to 95% by following simple health procedures such as proper hand washing.
At the end of the programs and visits, and in a questionnaire conducted by the hospital, the participants reported that the hospital’s support and implementation of health awareness programs, raising health awareness and cultivating the right concepts helped to improve their lives and correct concepts among their families and relatives, and hoped that the hospital would continue to intensify and increase these activities, which express the humanitarian message and the leading role provided by the health sector towards the community.
