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An advertisement for Boots from 1911. Boots was established in 1849, by John Boot. [7] After his father's death in 1860, Jesse Boot, aged 10, helped his mother run the family's herbal medicine shop in Nottingham, [8] which was incorporated as Boot and Co. Ltd in 1883, becoming Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd in 1888.
Saudi Arabia, [d] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), [e] is a country in West Asia.Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the 12th-largest in the world. [15]
Map showing the major cities in Saudi Arabia. City Population [1] Comments Abha: 334,290 (2022) Capital city of Asir Ad-Dilam: 39,267 (2022) Al-Abwa: Al Artaweeiyah:
Alshaya is believed to be the oldest company in Kuwait. M.H Alshaya Co. was registered in 1890 and initially established trading links between Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and India. In 1890, M. H. Alshaya Co. was founded in Kuwait as a shipping company, initially trading with British India.
In 2007 the company went on to buy APM in Jordan, [6] Alkan Pharma in Egypt, APM and Al Jazeera Pharma in Saudi Arabia, [6] Thymoorgan in Germany, [3] and Ribosepharm in Germany. [3] It started to acquire Baxter Healthcare Corporation's US generic injectables business, Multi-Source Injectables or MSI, and completed the transaction in May 2011.
After the unification of Saudi Arabia, the kingdom was divided into four provinces: the 'Asir Province, Al Hasa' Province, the Hejaz Province and the Najd Province. [1]King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud issued Royal Order A/92 on March 2, 1992, known as Law of the Provinces, [4] which provided for the division of the kingdom into 13 provinces.
Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies (Arabic: كلية ابن سينا الأهلية للعلوم الطبية) is the first private medical college of higher education under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The college is promoted by Al-Jedani Group of Hospitals, KSA.
A Saudi Red Crescent ambulance in front of the emergency room. In 2002, the Saudi health system was established by a Royal decree to insure the provision of comprehensive health care to the population of Saudi Arabia in a fair minded, affordable manner. In 2004, there were 1,848 primary health care centers and 200 hospitals.