The Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmed Al-Awadi, said the Ministry pays great attention to specializing in diseases of the nervous system by establishing units for neurological diseases in all hospitals and launching a stroke extraction program using interventional catheters, which made a quantum leap in the field of stroke treatment in Kuwait.
Minister Al-Awadi was speaking during the opening ceremony of the Sixth Kuwaiti Conference on Nervous System Diseases. The conference, he said, embodies on the ground the extent of the ministry’s efforts to harness all means to achieve distinguished medical values in the fields of research, knowledge and development of health services for citizens and residents, reports Al-Rai daily.
He added that the Ministry’s employees have published more than 100 scientific research papers in the past few years in the most famous scientific journals, which is a source of pride for the Ministry.
For his part, the head of the Kuwaiti Neurological Society, a faculty member in the College of Medicine and the conference chairman, Dr. Jassim Al-Hashel, said in a press statement that the neurological conference is one of the most important and powerful conferences held in the Middle East and North Africa, as it attracts the best doctors around the world.
Al-Hashel explained that there are speakers from the American and European federations who presented 35 lectures and a number of scientific workshops, with the participation of about 1,000 doctors representing 24 countries, with the aim of delivering science to the largest segment of learners.
He stated that the conference will discuss many issues, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, headache diseases and how to treat them, diseases of involuntary movements, convulsions, epilepsy and strokes.
He stressed that Kuwait was ranked among the best countries in the world in providing medical services due to the presence of distinguished and qualified Kuwaiti doctors, in addition to that Kuwait is the first in the Gulf level in scientific research in the fields of nerves.
He pointed out that the Neurology Department at Ibn Sina Hospital annually issues more than 12 scientific papers that are published in international scientific journals, pointing out that graduates of the neurology program, which has existed for eight years in Kuwait, have reached consultants, which is equivalent to what is available in the United States of America.
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