to specialize in endoscopy

Dr. Basma Mohamed Amin Fallatah is the first Saudi surgery in the field of laparoscopic and obesity surgery and this specialization through which the doctor performs many operations such as laparoscopes and is done through a small opening on the skin above or below the navel through which the abdomen is inflated with carbon dioxide to a degree Certain (blowing s a space and space to watch and perform the surgical procedure)

Then an endoscopy and vision camera for the digestive system is ed through what the camera transmits on a TV screen that can be followed with the naked eye (and you can imagine the reader’s brother the size of information and the diagnosis that can be obtained by this unique means) and resort to the work of diagnostic laparoscopy in certain cases determined by the doctor who follows the case, Or to take a sample from a specific area of ​​the liver or from a tumor in any area within the peritoneum of the abdomen. The use of the endoscope for therapeutic views has reached a very advanced level. It can be said that almost any operation can be performed using the traditional open method through the endoscope by creating additional incisions through which special surgical instruments are ed (such as normal surgical tools, but they are specially made that can be used through small openings, scissors. Tweezers cutters and connectors ....) The truth had it not been that God Almighty guided us to develop these tools and manufacture them in a way that can be used through these openings, because we would have had the development and convenience of performing endoscopic operations. Among the operations carried out by the owners of this specialization are obesity operations, such as gastric banding, which take place with ease. And eradicate tumors of the digestive system in different places such as colon, stomach, liver, and pancreas tumors, which were required to make a long surgical incision from the bottom of the chest bone, through the navel to the lower abdomen, but, thanks to God, most of these operations can be done by making four small holes (one hole 1 cm) With one additional opening not exceeding 3-4 cm on the side determined by the surgeon on the abdomen to extract the tumor from it, as well as the process of arthroscopy and its treatment, the most famous of which is the previous knee arthroscopy through a large incision on the knee that is not without problems after the operation of the patient. Now, the knee arthroscopy has become easily the patient can go on the same day after the effects of anesthesia have gone home, and it is sufficient to perform the arthroscopy of two openings, each of which does not exceed half a centimeter on the knee, and through which the endoscopy is performed, as well as surgical work if necessary from the inside with the tools designated for entry to the knee cavity from Through them.

Fellowship and scientific research

Dr. Basma Fallatah is the first Saudi surgery holder of a fellowship in Endoscopic Gastroenterology and Obesity from Claude Bonard University in Lyon / France «About her medical achievement being the first among Saudi women in her medical specialization Dr. Basma Mohamed Fallatah says« Before recounting my career, I would like to thank the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques The two honorable King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, may God protect him, who allowed missions for all doctors and doctors to specialize in various countries of the world in order to serve our dear country. Among the honors I am proud of are the Fellowship of the French Society of Obesity Surgery, the membership of the World Association of Obesity Surgery and the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery

Family support

Regarding the beginning of her relationship with medicine and the specialty that she chose, Dr. Basma Fallatah says: “My father, may God have mercy on him, and my mother, Aisha Mallawi, may God prolong her life, are those who encouraged me and helped me to enter medical school and started my love for surgery since the fourth year in the medical college and decided to complete my career in this specialization, I got He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from King Faisal University in Dammam, “she adds,” then she joined the King Fahd Military Medical Complex in Dhahran, joined the Saudi Authority’s program for specialization in general surgery, and finished the program in 2004. In the same period, she obtained the Arab Board in General Surgery. She worked as a specialist For the first year, I joined the French Fellowship Program for Endoscopic Gastroenterology and Obesity in September 2006 in the city of Lyon at the Edouard Hospital under the supervision of a well-known surgeon (John Pollys) in this field at the level of France and is a reference for these cases. The fellowship was successfully completed in October 2008 and then I was offered a job A first specialist in the same hospital and I prepared two important papers that were published in international medical references and I was the first Saudi woman to obtain this job in France, where only the French were allowed to study I am not on this job then returned to Saudi Arabia in November 2009 saturated with experiences

Dr. Basma Fallatah is the first Saudi surgery to hold a fellowship in Endoscopic Gastroenterology and Obesity from Claude Bonard University in Lyon / France «about her medical achievement being the first among Saudi women in her medical specialty to serve the nation and citizens and she joined the military medical complex as a consultant general surgery and endoscopic surgery device Digestive and obesity »..

External calls

Dr. Basma Fallatah''s career did not stop there as she says »In July 2010, I received an invitation from the Saudi Attaché in France and I was honored by the Minister of Higher Education Dr. Al-Anqari for excellence during the study period, and in May 2011 I was appointed as the head of the surgical unit with the assignment, thank God I did About 200 endoscopic procedures including obesity (gastric bypass and gagging) operations, stomach valve operations to treat reflux, colon operations for treating sigmoid colon cyst, tumor eradication, and spleen eradication. By God’s grace, several scientific papers were presented at international conferences. Last but not least, I extend all love and appreciation to my beloved husband, Anas Fattah, for what he provided and still provides to my sister in God, Dr. Sondos Al-Saleh, the words fail to thank her and to my great professor Dr. Yahya Ashqan, vascular consultant at the Military Medical Complex and head of the Saudi Society for Vascular Surgery in the Eastern Province, from whom my colleagues and I learned a lot in medicine and life, with all respect and appreciation. «