Saudi Arabia presented a leadership award to a Pakistani doctor for hisservices as a team leader in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, *ArabNews reported link*.
Shahzad Ahmad Mumtaz, over the phone from Riyadh, told *Arab News* that theKingdom’s health ministry, in recognition of his services as head of theIntensive Care Unit (ICU) at the King Salman Hospital, had given him aleadership award and appreciation certificate on the country’s national day— September 23.
The Pakistani medic has been working in the Kingdom for the last 18 yearsand hails from Punjab’s Layyah.
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“At the outset of the pandemic, the COVID-19 mortality rate was very highat the King Salman Hospital. That is the reason why I was brought here asthe ICU head to increase the hospital’s capacity to deal with the challengeposed by the pandemic,” he said.
