The Arab Medical Union organizes a “scientific webinar” to raise awareness and prevent “hepatitis”
The Arab Institute for Sustainable Professional Development (Motamed), affiliated with the Arab Medical Union, and the Egyptian Society for Infection Control are organizing a free “scientific webinar” on the occasion of the World Day for the Elimination of Hepatitis.
He will lecture at the “Webinar” from an accredited institute, which will be held today, Saturday, via “Zoom technology” on the Internet. Dr. Maha Fathi, Secretary General of the Egyptian Society for Infection Control, and Scientific Curriculum for the Professional Diploma in Infection Control at an accredited institute, and Dr. Walaa Khater, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine, Member of the Scientific Council for the Diploma in Infection Control.
A statement issued by the “Accredited” Institute said that the webinar is an accredited institute, which includes how to prevent hepatitis in health care, and protect the patient and health service providers from exposure to hepatitis infection.
The World Health Organization chose July 28 of each year. Because it coincides with the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Barouk Bolmberg, who is credited with discovering the hepatitis B virus and developing a test to diagnose it and a vaccine against it.
On this occasion, the global organization launched a campaign entitled “One Life, One Liver,” to highlight the importance of protecting the liver to live a long and healthy life and to preserve other vital organs such as the heart, brain, and kidneys that depend on the liver to perform their functions.
The organization said in a statement: Your liver silently performs more than 500 vital functions daily in order to enable you to survive, but infection with viral hepatitis is also silent, as its symptoms do not appear except in advanced stages of the disease.
She added that although there are many different types of hepatitis viruses from A to E, hepatitis B and C are the most concerning, and they cause approximately 8,000 new infections daily, the majority of which go undetected
World Hepatitis Day is an opportunity to strengthen national and international efforts to combat hepatitis, action and the participation of individuals, partners and the public, and encourage the need to maximize the global response as stated in the World Health Organization’s global report on hepatitis for 2017.
Dr. Osama Raslan, Secretary General of the Arab Doctors Union, stressed the importance of the scientific webinar organized by an accredited institute in cooperation with the Egyptian Society for Infection Control, on the occasion of the World Day for the Elimination of Hepatitis.
“Raslan” pointed out that the health scientific days held by the Union contribute to spreading health awareness among members of society and actually implementing the rule “prevention is better than cure.”