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Providing Drinking Water

A project to provide drinking water refrigerators for free water bottles for patients, outpatients, and visitors.

Target Group:

  • All outpatients, visitors, and inpatients in King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (Riyadh – Jeddah – Medina)
  • King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer and Research (KFNCCC&R) in Riyadh

Venue Scope:

  • King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (Riyadh – Jeddah – Medina)
  • King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer and Research (KFNCCC&R) in Riyadh

Financial Scope:

  • The cost of water and operating are SAR 1,043,424 annually.
  • The cost of purchasing 20 refrigerators is SAR 520,000.

Project Justifications:

  • Many patients come directly to the hospital from outside Riyadh, so one of the simplest services is to provide free drinking water.
  • Some types of radiology require patients to drink a lot of water, so we provide free drinking water so as not to burden patients to buy water, especially if they were of low income.
  • Improve experiments on patients, outpatients, and visitors.
  • Provide facilities to patients or outpatients during their presence in the hospital
  • Promote community members' solidarity and cohesion.

Facts and Figures:

  • 12 water box for each refrigerator per day.
  • 264 water box for one refrigerator per month.
  • 3,168 water box for one refrigerator per year.
  • 480 water bottles for each refrigerator per day.
  • 10,560 water bottles for one refrigerator per month.
  • 126,720 water bottles for one refrigerator per year.
  • We have (30) water refrigerators in all branches of King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre.
  • 645,079 water bottles were provided in 2020.
  • The number of beneficiaries amounted to 322,539 in 2020.