The Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA) in Jazan Region has received 2,236 emergency calls since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, routed through its operations center via the emergency number 997 and other electronic channels. Of that total, 1,681 cases were transported to hospitals, according to the authority’s regional figures. The remaining calls in the tally cover the balance of the 2,236 total, which the source did not break down further.
SPA reported the figures on March 25, 2025, from Jizan, citing the SRCA’s regional leadership. The numbers cover the period from the start of Ramadan through the reporting point, giving a picture of how the emergency line and the authority’s electronic intake channels have been used across the region during the month.
SRCA Regional Director-General Dr. Adel Arishi stated that the reports included a variety of medical emergencies, traffic accidents, and general injuries. That description places the call volume across more than one category of incident, rather than a single type of case. How many of the 2,236 calls fell into each of those three categories is not stated in the source.
The 1,681 hospital transports represent the share of cases that required movement to a hospital after the call was received. The difference between the total calls and the transported cases is not explained in the source, and no reason is given for why some calls did not result in a hospital transfer.
The emergency number 997 is the channel the SRCA names first in its account of the intake, with other electronic channels also counted in the total. Which electronic channels were used, and how the calls split between 997 and those channels, is not specified in the source.
The operations center is the point through which the calls were received, according to the authority. The source does not describe the center’s staffing, its hours, or any change to its operations during Ramadan.
Ramadan is the period the figures cover. The source gives the start of the month as the beginning of the count and March 25, 2025, as the reporting date, without stating how many days of the month the 2,236 calls span. Does the total cover the full stretch of Ramadan up to that date, or a shorter window within it?
Jazan Region is the geographic scope of the figures. The source does not break the calls down by governorate, city, or any smaller area within the region, so the distribution of the 2,236 calls across Jazan is not available from the material.
Dr. Adel Arishi is identified as the SRCA Regional Director-General and is the official quoted in the source. His statement covers the types of reports received: medical emergencies, traffic accidents, and general injuries. The source does not include any further remarks from him beyond that description.
The 2,236 total and the 1,681 hospital transports are the two figures the source provides. No response times, no number of ambulances, no number of personnel, and no comparison with any earlier period are included. How the Ramadan figures compare with the same period in previous years is therefore not answerable from this report.
The source does not say whether the call volume is higher or lower than usual, nor whether the authority considers the number within its normal range. It also does not state whether any additional capacity was put in place for Ramadan.
The emergency number 997 is the number the SRCA names for the public to reach its operations center, alongside other electronic channels. The source does not list those channels by name or describe how they work.
Traffic accidents appear among the categories of reports, but the source gives no count for them. The same applies to medical emergencies and general injuries: each is named as a category, and none is given a separate figure. Can the three categories be separated from the 2,236 total using only this report?
The 1,681 cases transported to hospitals are described as cases, not calls, which leaves open how many calls corresponded to those transports. The source does not resolve that distinction.
The report is attributed to SPA and carries a Jizan dateline of March 25, 2025, with a local time of 05:55 and a GMT time of 02:55. The item is numbered 0017 in the source’s own listing.
No names of patients, no ages, no locations of incidents, and no outcomes beyond hospital transport are included. The source does not say how many of the transported cases involved traffic accidents as opposed to medical emergencies or general injuries.
The SRCA is the authority named throughout the source, and its Jazan Region operation is the subject. The source does not describe the authority’s wider national call volumes during Ramadan, only the Jazan Region figures.
What the source leaves out is as notable as what it includes: there is no daily breakdown, no hourly breakdown, no list of the electronic channels, no figure for calls that did not lead to transport, and no statement on staffing or fleet size. Each of those gaps is a question the report does not answer.
The two headline numbers remain the core of the account: 2,236 emergency calls received since the start of Ramadan, and 1,681 cases transported to hospitals. Both come from the SRCA in Jazan Region, both are reported by SPA, and both are tied to the emergency number 997 and other electronic channels.
For readers in Jazan, the figures describe how one emergency intake system was used over part of Ramadan. The source does not extend the numbers to any other region, to any other month, or to any comparison period, and it does not project them forward.
How many emergency calls did the SRCA in Jazan Region receive since the start of Ramadan? The Saudi Red Crescent Authority in Jazan Region received a total of 2,236 emergency calls since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, according to SPA. The calls came through the authority’s operations center via the emergency number 997 and other electronic channels. Of that total, 1,681 cases were transported to hospitals. The source does not break the 2,236 calls down by day, by channel, or by location within the region, and it does not state how many days of Ramadan the figure covers.
What types of reports were included in the emergency calls? SRCA Regional Director-General Dr. Adel Arishi stated that the reports included a variety of medical emergencies, traffic accidents, and general injuries. That places the 2,236 calls across more than one category of incident rather than a single type. The source does not give a separate count for medical emergencies, for traffic accidents, or for general injuries, so the share of each category within the total is not available from the report. It also does not say how many of the 1,681 hospital transports came from each category.
How many cases were transported to hospitals? Out of the 2,236 emergency calls received since the start of Ramadan, 1,681 cases were transported to hospitals, according to the SRCA figures reported by SPA. The source describes these as cases rather than calls, and it does not explain the difference between the total calls and the transported cases. No reason is given for why some calls did not result in a hospital transfer, and no outcome is provided for the cases that were not transported. The source also does not list the hospitals involved.
Which channels did the emergency calls come through? The SRCA in Jazan Region received the calls through its operations center via the emergency number 997 and other electronic channels, according to the source. The number 997 is the channel the authority names first, with the other electronic channels counted in the 2,236 total. The source does not list those other electronic channels by name, does not describe how they work, and does not say how the calls split between 997 and the electronic channels. No response times are given for any channel.