communities of Saudi Arabia have Picked news story about the first case of death due to «digital drugs» abuse although the kingdom raised the alert level since last week, to limit the access of these drugs to the online community, but the Ministry of Health approved its inability due to the possibility of access of the information from this type in record time. The ministry refused to confirm the urgency to confirm the news or not, because «the large number of hospitals and health centers».
The spokesman of the ministry, Dr. Khalid Marghalani said that It is not easy to report on the case of death pointing to the existence of 20 healthy regions, with 284 Hospital, next to several health centers.
In turn, the counselor of General Secretariat of the National Commission for Drug Control psychological consultant Dr. Nizar Saleh told « Alhayat », that «the digital sound effects is one of the older - new techniques, which depends on the sending sound vibrations to both ears at different frequencies, in order to influence the listener, especially with use of ear headphones ».
Director of Alamal Mental Health center in Dammam Dr. Mohammed Al-Zahrani told « Alhayat »: «we did not receive any state». He pointed out that preparations «it does not exist yet», pointing out that it needs to «information, which i didn't receive personally», pointing out that they did not report the effects of this type in the brain, and how to cure it.
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Head of Unit of Psychiatry at King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah international expert of the United Nations in the treatment of addiction, Dr. Mona Alsaraf, explained that «the assertion of death of any case supposed to a kind of digital addiction drug types is difficult». It pointed out that she cannot figure out the cause of death was from the addiction itself, or symptoms that accompanied the addict as convulsions or epilepsy.
"Shura" member bode to decrease communications and Internet prices soon
chairman of the Committee on Transport and Communications in the Shura Council, Dr. Saadoun al-Sadoun carried good news for citizens to reduce call and «Internet» prices, which is «the highest worldwide». Sadoun said in response to the observations of the Committee members to report of Communications and Information Technology Commission,also the commission seeks to reduce the price of telecommunications companies, which in turn will contribute to lower prices, which is the highest in the world.
In addition, members of the Saudi Shura Council discussed the dilemma of administrative and financial corruption in government agencies, and opinions varied during the meeting about the strongest cause of corruption, as some of them blamed the offices of internal audit within the authorities, while others went to the failure of management institute in the reform of the administrative and planning process for more than 50 years, wondering about the beneficiary of the delay in the establishment of the performance measurement center, which has been approved since 2007.
Shura session began with dropping a proposal to link the internal audit departments in government agencies Diwan of public scrutiny by 77 members before being studied well , and the supporters of the proposal couldn't convince the naysayers even by the appropriateness of the study
Major General Nasser Al-Otaibi said that: the proposal is a source of administrative reform to dry up the sources of corruption, and his long experience in government work to prove that the internal audit is the entity that should be monitored, and its integration with surveillance Diwan is a must.
Members agreed with the view of Otaibi of the need for internal control government agencies independence, to guarantee the neutrality and objectivity of their work away from the pressures of its officials.
Members described the programs of the current administration Institute as it is weak and insufficient, considering that the number of its outputs are very few compared to government jobs, and the intensity of criticism increased from members Khadr al-Qurashi, Abdullah Aljgyeman, despite the fact that the first said that he would refrain from criticizing the Institute for absence of any information in the report. Qurashi was surprised from «elongating» in the implementation of the Council of Ministers decision in 1429, to establish the governmental independence and the performance center.