The Saudi Ophthalmology Conference, opened by the honourable Hamad Bin Mohamed Al-Thuwaile, Deputy Health Minister, and which continued for 4 days, ended its activities last Thursday.
Dr. Abdul-Illah Bin Abad Al-Tuwerqi, Director of King Khaled Ophthalmology Specialist Hospital, expressed how pleased he was by the success of the conference and presented his gratitude and thanks to His Highness Prince Abdul-Aziz Bin Ahmed Bin Abdul-Aziz for his support of the annual scientific meeting's activities, and to the honourable Health Minister, Engineer Khaled Al-Faleh for safeguarding the conference, as well as thanking the Honourable Deputy Health Minister Mr Hamad Bin Mohamed Al-Thuwaile for attending the conference opening.
He also thanked the Saudi Ophthalmology Society and King Saud University, represented by The Faculty of Medicine, for their efforts toward making the conference a success.
He confirmed that the hospital always strives to organize and participate in scientific conferences. He hoped that the conference would continue to hold its meetings during the coming years, in order to continue offering its scientific benefit to the ophthalmology sector in Saudi.
He also thanked the Saudi Ophthalmology Society and King Saud University, represented by The Faculty of Medicine, for their efforts toward making the conference a success.
He confirmed that the hospital always strives to organize and participate in scientific conferences. He hoped that the conference would continue to hold its meetings during the coming years, in order to continue offering its scientific benefit to the ophthalmology sector in Saudi.
Dr. Abdullah Bin Ghazi Al-Utaiby, Deputy Director at the Saudi Ophthalmology Society, also thanked the supervisory and organizing boards for their efforts toward making the conference a success. He added that this year's meeting provided great scientific benefit to the ophthalmology sector, due to the generous support which the field of ophthalmology receives in Saudi from the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, as well as from the Crown Prince, under the supervision of the Honourable Minister of Health, and the guardian of ophthalmology in Saudi, His Highness Prince Abdul-Aziz Bin Ahmed Bin Abdul-Aziz, Director of the Saudi Ophthalmology Society.
Dr. Al-Utaiby added that the conference this year had advanced to a new level due to the scientific papers presented, more than 190 of which had been accepted, with an attendance of about 1700 participants, including ophthalmology doctors, and optometrists as well as a variety of other specialists.
Dr. Al-Utaiby added that the conference this year had advanced to a new level due to the scientific papers presented, more than 190 of which had been accepted, with an attendance of about 1700 participants, including ophthalmology doctors, and optometrists as well as a variety of other specialists.
The conference's final day of events included 2 seminars during which 8 scientific papers were presented on a variety of topics, such as glaucoma. The events were led by Dr. Deepak Arward, medical managing director at King Khaled Specialist Ophthalmology Hospital, and were chaired by Dr. Essam Othman, Professor of Ophthalmology at the glaucoma division in the medical faculty at King Saud University, who outlined the most important points of the day's seminars.
He requested that drug companies remove the phrase "sterilized drops" from medications specified for glaucoma, and he confirmed that there was no difference in effectiveness between local and imported medicines. He added that the role of hereditary genetics (recessive gene) for glaucoma in children, which is responsible for 5% of all children' cases with the disease, which appears at a relatively high rate in Saudi, had been discussed.
The Seminar recommended giving attention to modern medical technology, including medical photography to diagnose glaucoma, especially in cases of excessive short-sightedness, which usually makes it difficult to identify.