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09:59, 08-Aug-2018
Saudi Arabia stops all medical treatment programs in Canada
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09:37, 11-Aug-2018
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Saudi Arabia has stopped all medical treatment programs in Canada, and is coordinating for the transfer of all Saudi patients from Canadian hospitals to other hospitals outside Canada, the Saudi Press Agency reported citing Dr. Fahd bin Ibrahim Al Tamimi, Saudi Health Attaché in the United States of America and Canada.
The purpose of this move is to "ensure the safety of Saudi patients who receive treatment in Canada with their companions, and to complete their treatment elsewhere," said Al Tamimi in a press statement.
Saudi Arabia has also frozen new trade and investment with Canada, and expelled the Canadian ambassador early on Monday, in a stern gesture of retaliation after Ottawa urged it to free arrested civil society activists.