The Ministry of Health and Population organized a dialogue session entitled “The benefits of applied research in improving health care.” As part of the activities of the second edition of the World Conference on Population, Health and Human Development (PHDC’24), which is held under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, under the slogan “Human Development for a Sustainable Future,” in the New Administrative Capital.
The session included everything related to applied research conducted at the General Authority of Hospitals and educational institutes to improve health care, as applied research seeks to solve practical problems and enhance the tangible benefits of the current body of knowledge, address and improve challenges, and provide practical and effective solutions.
Present during the session were Dr. Bassem Zarif, consultant cardiologist at the National Heart Institute, Dr. Muhammad Salim, consultant cardiologist at the National Institute, Dr. Naglaa Hassan, consultant ophthalmology and surgery at the Memorial Ophthalmology Institute, and Dr. Sami Abdel Ati, PhD in cardiology.
He confirmed Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, stressed the importance of applied research in improving health care in terms of training medical staff on the coordinates of heart failure and the coordinates of eye diseases (gene therapy or blindness in children), and working to pay attention to and develop applied research.
Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Abdel Ghaffar, Chairman of the General Authority for Hospitals and Educational Institutes, began his speech by thanking Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, for his continuous support for the development and modernization of applied research. He also mentioned the importance of training medical teams in applied research, for the benefit of patients with insufficiency. Heart failure and blindness in children. He stressed the need to work on educating patients, improving the quality of care for patients with heart failure, and reducing blindness in children.
For his part, Dr. Bassem Zarif, consultant cardiologist at the National Heart Institute, said that valve implantation operations The TAVI method for high-precision surgical patients has been working successfully in the recent period, in order to quickly save patients with heart failure.
Dr. Muhammad Salim, consultant cardiologist at the National Heart Institute, discussed the impact of the National Interventional Catheterization Initiative in saving the lives of residents. Egyptians, its importance, work on it, and the development of surgeries in the recent period.
For her part, Dr. Naglaa Hassan, Ophthalmology Consultant at the Memorial Ophthalmology Institute, reported the coordinates of gene therapy for retinal dystrophy and the importance of working to educate society about early blindness in children, and how to deal with it and prevent it. Disease.
For his part, Dr. Ayman Al-Ghunaimi, Ophthalmology and Surgery Consultant, discussed the role of the Memorial Ophthalmology Institute in enabling ophthalmology and ophthalmology research, transforming societies, educating society about the prevention of eye diseases, and working to train doctors for all eye surgeries in order to develop and modernize surgeries. ; To reach global rates in combating blindness in children.
