Conference begin in Jeddah
And it was published in the care on 10 - 04-2011, the Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah Governorate, Dr. Sami bin Muhammad Badawood, inaugurated today the activities of the Fifth Jeddah Conference for the New in Treating Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is organized by King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah over a period of three days. Dr. Badawood stressed the importance of holding such conferences to discuss the issue of diabetes, which has become an obsession and a problem that calls for attention by health workers, pointing out the need for all groups that provide service to patients with diabetes to be familiar with the preventive aspect, being the first line of defense to enlighten community members of the importance of exercise and diet. .
He indicated that the Ministry of Health has paid great attention to diabetes by equipping specialized centers to treat it, and in Jeddah two centers, one in the north and the other in the process of completing it, highlighting the media role in clarifying ways to prevent the disease and how to deal with it for the injured and treating that by practicing sports and health and food organization, calling on the participants In the conference come out with medical and scientific recommendations that serve a large group of members of our society.
While the General Supervisor of King Abdulaziz Hospital in Jeddah, Dr. Muhammad bin Faisal Al-Mubarak, explained that the hospital’s organization of the conference in a row confirms the importance of diabetes topics, as diabetes affects a large segment of people, as everyone must understand that the patient is no longer just like the previous recipient, but rather a partner In making decisions, we must focus on the educational aspect of the patient.
The head of the scientific committee of the conference and the medical director of King Abdulaziz Hospital, Dr. Nasser Al-Juhani, stated for his part that the conference includes a series of lectures and workshops on the latest findings of modern medicine in treating and diagnosing diabetes mellitus and methods of preventing and treating complications of diabetes such as peripheral neuropathy, coronary and cerebral arteriosclerosis. And blood pressure and increase the proportion of harmful fats in the body, methods of prevention and control of obesity and methods of healthy nutrition, and the effects of positive bariatric surgeries on obesity complications such as diabetes, blood pressure and the increase associated with them.
He pointed out that the conference will discuss in its scientific sessions the latest findings of modern medicine in the treatment of diabetes, such as the use of incretins, oxytide injections, the latest emerging technologies in insulin pumps, modern methods of measuring blood glucose levels at home for children and adults, modern treatment of diabetic foot to avoid ulcers and amputation of the feet as well as Specialists discuss the latest findings of modern medicine in treating thyroid diseases such as lethargy and hyperthyroidism, benign and malignant thyroid tumors in children and adults, and thyroid diseases in pregnant women, in addition to explaining the latest medicines used to treat bone diseases such as osteoporosis, which is given as a once intravenous injection One yearly, osteomalacia, causes and methods of diagnosing and treating short stature, indications for using growth hormone, causes and treatment of excess milk hormone, menstrual disorders, polycystic ovaries in women, adrenal gland diseases (supra-renal) such as adrenal gland and treatment of pituitary diseases in the brain.
