the rock to develop medicine in the Kingdom
At the beginning of the eighth season of the "weekly" cultural salon, its founder and host Dr. Abdul Mohsin Al-Qahtani hosted one of the pioneers of gynecology and children in the Kingdom, Professor Hassan Saleh Jamal, to present a presentation of his life full of events and activities, in an evening moderated by the journalist Meshaal Al-Harthi.
Al-Harithi started the evening by congratulating the attendees on the new Hijri year, and with the new weekly season we are opening it by hosting a professor, may God bless him with long experience, rich experience and extensive scientific career, so welcome Professor Dr. Hassan Saleh Jamal, Professor of Gynecology and Childbirth at the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, and the former Dean of the College for two terms.
Meshaal pointed out that the guest was keen to have a fingerprint in the nation''s edifice by making a lot of efforts, winning many certificates and prizes, and registering his name in the most important encyclopedias in his field of specialization, and presented to the Medicine Library many books in Arabic and English, including: Towards a safe pregnancy and a safe birth Sex education and culture, and others.
Then Dr. Al-Qahtani presented his welcoming speech, which he started by praising the family of the guest Al Jamal, known for elegance, culture and politeness, and they brought to the homeland many writers and scholars, including our guest, as he is a scholar of literature, but he did not leave his clinic but rather continued the scientific and cultural giving together, which made him happy in the hearts of many .
Then the guest started his speech by indicating that he was born in Mecca near the Haram and grew up in a neighborhood called “Sarhat Al-Fall”. He studied in the circles of the Haram and enrolled in the model elementary school that was then without seats or tables, and then moved to study at the Al-Thaghr School in the inner section of it, where he learned the system. And discipline and rules of behavior, then high school in the Aziziyah School in Makkah, after which he moved with his brother Dr. Tariq studied medicine in Egypt, where he joined Ain Shams University, and he felt in Egypt a familiarity because the Egyptian people are simple and friendly, and we Saudis love us and resemble us in many customs, and then his academic career was on a scholarship in Britain, and he obtained several diplomas and fellowships equivalent to a doctorate.
Dr. Hassan Gamal continued his talk about his practical career that he started as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, which was then emerging, then assistant professor, vice representative of the college, dean, professor, and chairman of the board of directors of the university hospital, and during these stages there were major challenges, including moving the hospital to its headquarters The new and the giant, including the establishment of the Saudi Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and its international recognition by the international "Goo" organization, from two Arab countries only among 85 global countries.
The guest concluded his speech by touching on the death of his father, which was an influential event in his life, and referred to the many honors he had received in the Kingdom, Egypt, Britain and Japan, then thanked his wife and children who had borne the trouble of his scientific and scientific journey and his distance from them most of the time between works and travels.
Then the door for dialogue and interventions was opened, in which: Muhammad Zuwaid Al-Otaibi, Saeed Farha Al-Ghamdi, Amin Rashid Farsi and Dr. Yusef Al-Aref, Abdul Wahhab Abu Zanada, Abdul-Mumin Al-Qain, Abdullah Al-Nasser, and Abdullah Al-Alawi.
As usual for the week, a certificate of honor was presented to the guest presented by His Excellency Dr. Adnan Wazzan, and a certificate of honor to the director of the evening presented by Professor Tariq Saleh Jamal.
