The strengthening ties between Jamaica 🇯🇲 and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 proceed to drive significant collaborations, the newest being a life-altering medical intervention for conjoined twins Azaria and Azora Elson. After months of uncertainty, their mom, Iesha McMurray, now has hope as her daughters put together to journey to King Abdullah Specialist Youngsters’s Hospital in Riyadh for a separation surgical procedure.
This growth follows the intervention of the Ministry of International Affairs and International Commerce, which facilitated discussions with the College Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), the place the twins have been receiving care. Everlasting Secretary Ambassador Sealy Monteith performed a key function within the collaborative course of, working alongside International Minister @kaminajsmith to strengthen diplomatic ties and coordinate efforts that made this initiative attainable.
Throughout a go to to UHWI on March 13, Saudi Ambassador to Jamaica, Dr. Waleed bin Abdulrahman Alhamoudi recommended Minister Johnson Smith for her management in fostering the sturdy bilateral relationship that paved the best way for this humanitarian effort.
Minister Johnson Smith expressed deep appreciation for Saudi Arabia’s generosity and acknowledged the Jamaican medical group, led by Dr. Celia Christie, for his or her dedication to the twins’ care.
Dr. Christie has additionally been invited by Saudi authorities to current at a convention on the twins’ remedy, additional strengthening medical collaboration between each nations.
This surgical procedure is made attainable via the Saudi Programme for Separating Conjoined Twins. The specialised look after the twins is estimated to price over US $4 million.
