Dubai: Saudi Arabia's Crown prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, asked authorities to move a boy who was the lone survivor of an accident that killed his entire family, on Al Jreen road, to the National Guard Hospital in Jeddah.
The 18-month-old's parents, five-year-old sister and grandmother died in the crash.
The child's uncle was quoted by Arabiya.net as saying that Prince Khalid Bin Ayyaf, head of the Saudi National Guard, called and informed him of the Crown prince's order to move the baby to the National Guard Hospital after many healthcare facilities failed to accommodate him.
The child, Ali Al Zahrani, suffered a brain injury and a skull fracture. He was in a comma for 19 days in King Fahad hospital in Al Bahah. So far he has undergone a head operation. He has been taken off the ventilator and his condition is said to be stable enough for the move.
The family was on its way home from a wedding in another governorate when the accident occured, according to Al Zahrani's uncle.
- With inputs from Hams Saleh, a freelance journalist based in the UAE
