scientific meeting
The Saudi Society for Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the College of Medicine at King Faisal University holds its second annual scientific meeting on 10 and 11 Muharram 1429 AH corresponding to January 19 and 20, 2008 AD in the King Abdulaziz Medical City of the National Guard in Riyadh in cooperation with the medical services of the National Guard and King Saud University in the Guard The National and the Infection Control Council of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
The head of the association, Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Qurashi, explained that the meeting will deal with the bird flu epidemic and the latest information received from the Ministry of Health in this regard. The meeting will also include a session on other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, infectious bacterial diseases, viral diseases, fungal diseases, and immunizations that must be taken to prevent infectious diseases.
The meeting will also deal with how to control and limit the spread of bird flu, resistance and sensitivity to antibiotic microbes, infection control, hand hygiene for workers in the health sectors and their importance in limiting the spread of infectious diseases, diagnosing infectious diseases by modern means, viral diseases, their resistance, treatment, diagnosis, disease vaccinations, their policies and manufacture, and national, regional and global plans for their use. In combating infectious diseases as well as ways to reduce infectious diseases and their spread such as tuberculosis and others.
"The assembly will host more than twenty speakers from inside and outside the Kingdom," he said. . As this scientific meeting is a scientific phenomenon that the society used to establish in order for the specialists in the field of microbiology and infectious diseases to exchange information, research and scientific papers for the benefit of the homeland, the citizen and the resident, and the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States, limiting the spread of the bird flu epidemic and trying to discuss the national policy to develop "The most and shortest way to combat this epidemic is through the experience of many consultants of infectious diseases and microbiology."
The President of the Society expressed his thanks and appreciation to His Royal Highness Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Head of the National Guard for Military Affairs, and also thanked the Executive Director of Medical Services in the National Guard, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabiah, the organizing committee for the meeting, the Society’s branch in Riyadh, Jeddah, Jazan and the Eastern Region, and all those who contribute to the success of the meeting.
