First Saudi health conference set in March

MAKKAH: The first Saudi and fourth GCC conference on promoting health is to be held at the InterContinental Jeddah on March 15-17 with a number of specialists from the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries expected to participate. Representatives from the British pharmaceutical, biological, and health care company, GlaxoSmithKline, will also attend the 3-day conference that is being jointly organized by the GCC and the Saudi Society for Community Medicine (SSCM).

The conference is to be sponsored by Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, chairman of the Arab Gulf Program for UN Development Organizations (AGFUND) and SSCM’s honorary chairman.

Dr. Tawfiq bin Ahmad Khoja, director general of the Executive Bureau of GCC Health Ministers and chairman of the conference, said the meeting will focus on raising health awareness, encouraging healthy lifestyles, combating smoking, stressing the role of health insurance companies and highlighting chronic diseases etc.

He said that about 50 scientific papers would be delivered at the conference and that a number of workshops are to be concurrently held. Khoja said the Health Specializations Authority has granted all medical doctors, nurses and technicians permission to attend the conference.

More about 1st Saudi and 4th Gulf Scientific Meeting for Health Promotion

Organizer: Saudi Society of Family and Community Medicine in Cooperation with Health Ministers’ Council for Cooperation Council States
Period: 3
From: 15-03-2010 To: 17-03-2010
Location: Hilton Hall, Jeddah Hilton Hotel
City: Jeddah

Classification: Entertainment
Under Auspices: Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, President of Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND)

Contacts:
Phone: 0096616511775
Fax: 0096616511746
Mobile: 00966504699931
Email: drmhmod@gmail.com
Event URL: http://www.ssfcm.org