Riyadh, February 24, 2023, SPA -- Riyadh-based King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Association for the Care of Victims of Wars and Disasters to enhance health care services for Syrian refugees and the host community in Akkar province, Lebanon, expected to benefit as many as 100,000 individuals. The agreement, which took place on the sidelines of the third Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum (RIHF3), currently ongoing in Riyadh, aims at providing health care services and psychological, social and nutrition support for refugees and the host community, particularly children and those of special needs and ensuring their access to specialist health centers, developing the national system in the country in terms of health information and data administration, supporting existing national programs such as tuberculosis combating, monitoring and transferring the progress of infectious and communicable diseases to authorities concerned, enhancing personal and public cleanliness, reducing the proliferation of pandemic, infectious and communicable diseases, enhancing methods of health nutrition, providing health and nutrition enlightenment and culture, measuring children’s weight and length, examining the Laron dwarfism syndrome which needs special nutrition treatment, participating in routine vaccine campaigns, and providing free medication for Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in Arsal region and its rural areas. The agreement comes within the framework of KSrelief's ongoing enhancement of the health care system in Lebanon and supporting Syrian refugees, and the needy in the country. --SPA 14:58 LOCAL TIME 11:58 GMT 0010 www.spa.gov.sa/w1858986