Damascus-SANA
Public health and the reality of the Corona pandemic in Syria are the highlights of what the participants discussed in the scientific symposium organized today by the Faculty of Human Medicine at Damascus University in cooperation with the World Health Organization.
The axes of the symposium dealt with the impact of cancer on public health, acute mysterious hepatitis, re-evaluating the relationship of food lipids to blood lipids and cardiovascular diseases, and integrating mental health with primary care, in addition to the awareness of breast cancer patients about self-examination.
The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Bassam Ibrahim, praised the role of university hospitals in maintaining public health and the quality of medical services provided to patients in the field of diagnosis and treatment, most of which are provided almost free of charge, in addition to the educational services they provide to students of medical colleges at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Dr. Raed Abu Harb, Dean of the College of Human Medicine pointed out that medical education is no longer an education that grants a scientific degree only, but has become a system that qualifies its owner to enter practical life through an appropriate portal that secures health care providers to provide medical services to patients according to solid scientific foundations in proportion to the rates of disease spread locally. And with the resources and capabilities available to benefit the widest segment of patients.
Dr. Akjamal Makhtumova, representative of the World Health Organization in Syria, pointed to the importance of meeting with students and professors of the Faculty of Medicine to discuss public health issues within the current situation in order to enhance and raise the rate of receiving a vaccine against the Corona virus, pointing to the effective role played by medical staff and workers in the health sector to confront the pandemic. During the last period.
Dr. Rana Al-Hajja, Deputy Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization, gave a presentation on the epidemiological situation of the Corona pandemic in the eastern Mediterranean region and globally, and expressed the organization’s fear of a new wave of the virus, as happened in South Africa with the emergence of a new mutant of Omicron, which led to an increase in the number of cases and deaths.
Al-Hajja affirmed the organization’s continued support for the health and medical sector in Syria in order to help deliver the vaccine to the largest number of the population and spread community awareness about this matter, noting in this regard that a campaign to raise awareness of the need to receive the vaccine will be launched in cooperation with the Ministry of Health as of the twenty-second of this month. Until the first week of June.
The symposium was attended by the assistants of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the President of Damascus University, directors of university hospitals, and a crowd of professors and interested people.
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