“The national monitoring program will help health authorities to keep an eye on infectious diseases as and when they are reported from any part of the Kingdom and help detect epidemics,” Dr. Khalid Al-Marghalani, MoH spokesman, said in a statement to the Saudi Gazette, Sunday.
The program, which is part of a scheme to promote the preventive health medicine, will also cover immunization of citizens and residents as well as the storage of vaccines and registering the follow-up date, he said.
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As pilgrims started arriving from all over the world for the annual Haj which is due in the first week of November, authorities and agencies concerned are fully geared to extend them the best services.
The authorities are making use of the latest means of technology to streamline the process of receiving and dispatching pilgrims to their residences.
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Mobily said the program puts at the disposal of its subscribers who wish to use e-government services, many services such as traffic penalty inquires, alert for expiry date of passport, alert for expiry date of foreign worker's residential permit and other important information and alerts for Traffic police, Passport Office and Ministry of Labor.
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A survey on the Internet, which began early this year and was still going on, showed that 115 out of 242 people believed that it could not be rated more than “acceptable,” they said.
A number of the people surveyed believed that the project needed further development in order to be effective. According to the survey, 49 people said the electronic government was good.
The launch of this new service comes within the company’s drive to support and develop mobile phone applications.
According to Mobily, the program puts at the disposal of its subscribers, who wish to use e-government services, many services such as traffic penalty inquires, alert for expiry date of passport, alert for expiry date of foreign worker’s residence permit and other important information, and alerts for the Traffic Police, the Passport Office and the Ministry of Labor.
Read more: SA: New e-govt services for Mobily’s iPhone clients