On the twenty-ninth day of this September, the Saudi Heart Association celebrates the World Heart Day throughout the Kingdom, as more than a hundred countries around the world celebrate it, according to the World Heart Organization report. This celebration will extend for a week through a variety of activities in schools, markets and cultural centers, in which awareness messages are sent to the community in general and to those with heart diseases, especially about the correct patterns for maintaining a healthy heart, by presenting live competitions, screening films about a healthy heart, ways to preserve it, coloring competitions for children, and distributing some Gifts and souvenirs for the participants and attendees.
Among the activities prepared for this day in the city of Riyadh: open meetings in heart centers, lectures in schools on October 2, 2012 AD, a mass celebration of shoppers in the Granada Mall market on the evening of October 3, 2012 AD, and at Al-Othaim Mall on the evening of October 4, 2012 AD, the red scarf campaign for women in Prince Salman Social Center on October 4, 2012 AD, in which he gives a lecture on pediatric cardiology to Dr. Mashael Al-Obaidan, consultant cardiologist in children, and a lecture on heart disease in women by Dr. Hanan Al-Bakr, consultant cardiology for adults, and a visual presentation on a healthy heart for Dr. Howaida Al-Qathami, Senior Consultant In cardiac surgery, and after that, the lecturers'' questions about heart disease in children and women are answered.
