pelvic problems in women
The activities of the Fifth International Gulf Conference and the nineteenth periodic meeting of the Saudi Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, which was held recently in Jeddah, approved the establishment of the first body concerned with pelvic problems in women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the name of the "Saudi Group of Women''s Urology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery" under the umbrella of the Saudi Society for Women And childbirth.
The group’s board of directors was formed by election and voting method, headed by Dr. Ahmed Al-Badr from King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, with the membership of Prof. Dr. Hassan Abdul-Jabbar from King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Dr. Wael Awad from the National Guard Hospital in Jeddah, Dr. Hazem Al-Mandeel from King Saud University in Riyadh, and Dr. Bandar Hafez from King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah.
This group aims to spread awareness among the Saudi society of the problems of the pelvis among women, hold scientific conferences and lectures, and coordinate research in this field.
The consultant obstetrics and gynecology Dr. Ahmed bin Hammoud Al-Badr said that the most common pelvic problems in women are urinary incontinence, sagging, vaginal prolapse, faecal incontinence and recurrent urinary inflammation, as a local study showed that urinary incontinence among Saudi women occurs at 41%, which is higher than the percentages The global, which is 30%, and this is due to the large number of pregnancies and childbirths in our Saudi society, and it has been observed with the increase in the spread of this problem, but Saudi women still lack sufficient awareness of this problem, its causes, how to treat it, and her knowledge of the existence of a specific specialty concerned with this problem, which is the specialty of urology and gynecology. Pelvic reconstructive.
