The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz has ordered that five expatriates residing in the Kingdom be awarded the merit medals of 'the third rank,' as each of them had donated blood ten times.

The blood donors are Jaafar Obaid bin Yusif, Mohammad Saed bin Mohammad Abdullah, Naji bin Mohammad Alkhalaf, Mohammad Nazeih bin Zakaria Yasin and Bakr bin Mohammad Bakr.