A Saudi professor and consultant in obstetrics and gynecology warned of the challenges facing women, represented by the high rates of maternal mortality due to pregnancy, which reached 14 cases per 100,000 people in the Kingdom and the Arab Gulf states, as well as the spread of osteoporosis at increasing rates in the countries of the region, not only among women over Age fifty but in younger ages.
Professor Hassan Saleh Jamal, Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences at King Abdulaziz University, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, stressed that breast cancer is one of the diseases that affect women''s health in the Gulf and the Arab world, and Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait top the incidence rates for this. Disease, while cervical cancer kills more than 600 women every day in all parts of the world.
Professor Jamal''s warning came in a press statement on the occasion of the Fifth International Gulf Conference on Obstetrics and Gynecology, which will start its activities next Monday under the slogan "Scientific innovation in women''s health" in the city of Jeddah and will last for 3 days with the participation of more than 500 doctors, doctors and researchers from inside and outside the Kingdom. Four of the largest global health organizations are the World Health Organization, the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the British Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Arab League, where 70 international speakers will speak over a period of 13 sessions on everything related to women''s health and the challenges they face.
Professor Jamal called for strengthening health care programs for Gulf women, increasing financial allocations and training programs needed to achieve this purpose.
He stressed that there are challenges that are difficult to ignore, which impede the safe path of women in life and warn of increasing their suffering with diseases that were not spread at the same rates in the past, especially among young women, which pushed Gulf societies to the forefront of countries whose women suffer from these diseases.
He pointed out that 18% of pregnant women in the Gulf countries suffer from gestational diabetes, which is one of the highest rates in the world.
"The Gulf countries have recorded an increase in the obesity problem, which is spread by 60 percent in the countries of the region, especially among women, as the weight of Gulf women increases more than expected during pregnancy by 20 kilograms," Jamal said.
Professor Hassan Gamal called for developing strategies that take into account these important repercussions, and take into consideration devoting greater attention to women''s health specifically.
