Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH — A Saudi man in his 60s is complaining about the treatment he received at the Labor and Social Development Ministry's branch in Makkah province. The office has refused to help the elderly Saudi, a cancer patient, pay his accumulated house rent without giving him a reason. Jamaan Al-Jizani told local daily Al-Madina on Sunday that about three months ago he contacted the ministry's branch through the Social Development office in Jeddah to help him pay his outstanding house rent but the office has since been delaying his paperwork. He said the office referred him to two charity organizations of which one has bluntly refused to help him while the second procrastinated on his request. I am now threatened to be kicked out of my apartment because I could not pay the rent, which have now reached SR13,500, he said. Jizani said the Nama (Development) Charity Organization investigated his social status and after many weeks informed him verbally that it was unable to help him without telling him why. The organization gave no reason for its refusal to help me. I have nowhere to go. My only income is the social security assistance, he said. Jizani said he was suffering from the prostate cancer and many other illnesses and asked the Ministry of Labor and Social Development to consider his case humanely. Khaled Aba Al-Khail, the ministry's spokesman, said the charity organizations should help citizens who are in need of help after investigating their cases. The ministry will punish the organizations that refuse to assist citizens by a number of measures, including the stoppage of the annual financial grant, dissolution of their board of directors or any other legal procedures, he said. The spokesman promised to help resolve the citizen's problem.