of the Saudi Society of General Surgery

Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Governor of the Eastern Province, the Saudi Society for General Surgery organizes the eleventh scientific conference in the period from 21-23 Rajab 1438 AH (April 18-20, 2017 AD) at the Le Meridien Al-Khobar Hotel in the Eastern Province.

On this occasion, the Chairman of the Supervisory Committee organizing the conference, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Society for General Surgery, Dr. Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad Salih Al-Taf, expressed his happiness for the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Governor of the Eastern Region of the eleventh scientific conference of the Saudi Society for General Surgery, extending his thanks to His Highness for his sponsorship of this The important event that contributes to improving the level and quality of health services in our dear country.

And d. Abdul Malik Al-Taf that the Saudi Society for General Surgery is striving with the rest of the nation''s health institutions in the path of achieving the Kingdom''s ambitious 2030 vision, and is working to contribute to the improvement of the level and quality of health services, in order to achieve the aspirations of the leadership in an "effective and innovative health sector that enables improvement of efficiency, effectiveness, quality and productivity." At all levels of service provision.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Society for General Surgery indicated that the conference will discuss the concept of improving recovery after surgery for the first time with the aim of introducing this concept to the Kingdom and keeping pace with some developed countries in applying this concept to activate surgical health services and improve efficiency, effectiveness, quality and productivity at the level of health service and service and productivity of different sectors of By improving recovery and getting workers back to work more quickly, it results in great economic benefit as well. In its second axis, the conference will discuss techniques and methods of surgery with simple interventions that work side by side with the focus of the first conference to achieve the aforementioned goals. The conference will be accompanied by several workshops aimed at increasing the scientific and professional skills of surgeons.

Dr. Abdul-Malik Al-Taf said that this specialized scientific conference is characterized by the participation of a number of prominent surgeons, including heads of surgical scientific societies in several countries, including Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan, in addition to the president of the European Society of Endoscopic Surgery.

He revealed that the author will have the participation of international speakers from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, South Korea, the Netherlands and Egypt, in addition to prominent speakers from different parts of the Kingdom in various specialties of general surgery.

It is mentioned that the Saudi Society for General Surgery includes in its membership professionals in the field of general surgery from doctors and specialists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and aims to develop scientific thought in the field of general surgery specialization and work to develop and revitalize it, achieve scientific communication between members and provide scientific advice in the field of specialization, in addition to Work to develop the scientific and professional performance of the Society''s members, surgeons, trainees, and students.