Saudi-based Pakistani Zia Ullah Khan Dawar won a Medal from the Kingdom’s Ministry of Health in popularity for his service as one of the COVID-19 team’s “captains,” Arab News reported on Monday.
According to the publication, the fitness has been living in the Kingdom for 4 years and has worked on various fitness programs, adding tuberculosis, dengue and malaria.
“Lately it is running with the Ministry of Physical Fitness of the Kingdom in Jeddah as a component of a COVID-19 knowledge monitoring and research team,” the publication said.
Dawar told Arab News that the country’s ministry of fitness had awarded awards to medical personnel in popularity for a hundred days of service in the opposite fight against the virus and that he was one of the foreign doctors to win the award.
“I am very proud to gain popularity for my services. I came here from northern Waziristan, so it’s still not an honor for me for my region and for Pakistan,” he said.
“We were running on a cell computer, which is complicated and complicated work,” Dawar said, adding, “Every time a positive case was reported, we had to move to the site without delay and do whatever it took.”