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The Director of the Children''s Hospital of King Saud Medical City, Dr. Fawaz Al-Qassem, inaugurated the first conference for newborns at the Children''s Hospital in the city, which will be held from 9 to 13 February 2014.
The conference activities include working sessions over two days, and then the training courses will continue until the end of the activities, and the conference sessions are held in the Academic Tower of King Saud Medical City, presented and managed by a group of pediatric professors and consultants from King Saud City and the rest of the hospitals and medical cities in Riyadh.
The conference is chaired by Dr. Latifa Al Mahmoud, a consultant of newborns and the former head of the department, and the organizing and scientific committee is chaired by Dr. Syed Zaki Khader, a consultant of newborns. The conference targets workers in neonatal departments, including doctors, nurses and technicians.
The two-day sessions will discuss common problems at this critical age, such as respiratory problems, digestive system, brain and nerves, congenital heart disease, kidney disease and blood diseases, as well as surgical and metabolic diseases, congenital anomalies, immunodeficiency and infectious diseases in premature and newborn babies.
On the third and fourth days of the activities, the global training course, known as: S. T. A.B.L.E. Program
For his part, the head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Department, Dr. Nabil Al-Adhaidan, emphasized that such conferences are an opportunity to transfer expertise and benefit from the developments of modern medicine, adding that the attendance was very good, especially as it discusses a delicate specialization, and that the specialists in this aspect are limited in number.
The conference will conclude its activities with an practical training course next Thursday, on how to deal with congenital heart problems and hypoxia. This course aims to raise the level of dealing with this critical age group. To be in line with international standards, and participants in these courses get training hours, accredited by the Saudi Commission for Medical Specialties.
