Jeddah Health Affairs Directorate stated that 20,647 surgeries were conducted in the surgery sections of its hospitals during the first half of this year. One-day surgery centers performed 5,313 surgeries during the same period.
The surgeries included all kinds of minor and major operations, in addition to emergency and scheduled operations. Moreover, the majority of these surgeries were major and advanced; requiring qualified and trained teams to perform them. Furthermore, the surgeries performed covered many specialties. They included: neurosurgeries, heart surgeries, and catheterization for both adults and children, in addition to orthopedic surgeries, plastic surgeries, maxillofacial surgeries, corneal transplants, and many microsurgeries in all medical specialties.