A Saudi obstetrician and gynecologist has warned women over the age of fifty years of exposure to some serious diseases after menopause, and the occurrence of some physiological and psychological changes in them, unless they visit clinics specialized in that area at an early date.
Hessa bint Saleh Al-Duhami, a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist at the Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh, said: The menopause in women over the age of fifty increases their exposure to heart disease, osteoporosis, incontinence, and cystitis, with other problems related to the nature of the marital relationship. Indicating that the women''s clinics in most local hospitals focus in their work on diagnosing a woman''s sick condition at the time of its occurrence and then treating it without considering the issue of protecting the patient from an early date.
In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, she explained that the Security Forces Hospital established the first specialized clinic for menopause and osteoporosis in women in the Kingdom in 1997, and since that time to date, it has provided accurate preventive health services to about 15,000 Saudi women who have menopause, under the supervision of specialized female medical staff. In gynecology.
Dr. Al-Dahami indicated that the obstetrics and gynecology clinic at the Security Forces Hospital is concerned with providing treatment services for pregnancy, infertility, menstrual disorders, incontinence, and tumors, while the menopause clinic is a preventive clinic in the first place, providing preventive service first and then treating the patient.
