Nursing and laboratory events and training workshops on hemophilia began in the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University on March 7th in cooperation with the Syrian Association for Patients with Hemophilia and the World Federation of Hemophilia.
Dr. Wael Mualla, the President of Damascus University, said that the session was held in the framework of the comprehensive alliance agreement for development between Damascus University and the World Federation of Hemophilia made in 2008 , which was meant to both develop the infrastructure for the care of those suffering from hemophilia in Syria and to establish a national consultation center specializing in this and other hemorrhagic diseases.
Dr. Mualla also declared the importance of such training sessions, conferences, and scientific symposiums in preparing nursing trainees and laboratory technicians, which must lead to significant development of services in this important medical field, to the exchange of information and experiences, to benefit from the presented studies, and to access to the latest scientific findings in this field.
In turn, Dr. Tahani Ali, the President of the Syrian Association for Patients with Hemophilia, spoke on the objectives of the association founded in 2006, which are: to provide social care for those suffering from hemophilia and their families, both psychologically and materially, to conduct seminars to raise awareness and to educate the families, to prepare medical and educational courses, and to prevent and reduce the occurrences of disability caused by complications from hemophilia and hemorrhagic diseases through the provision of adequate treatment in a timely manner in addition to genetic consultation to reduce the growing incidents of this disease in general.
Then Dr. Ibrahim Beit al-Mal, the WHO representative in Syria, and Dr. Assad Haffar, the representative from the World Federation of Hemophilia, talked about the significance of this session, noting the importance of cooperation with specialized centers for the treatment of hemophilia and hemorrhagic diseases in developing countries through the World Federation of Hemophilia and the presence of a multidisciplinary medical panel to deal with this disease.
