A medicine I sent to the organ transplant localization workshop: The country is on the verge of the end of the war
Gastroenterologists: high incidence of hepatitis B and C viruses.
Gastrointestinal and liver disease specialists have warned of the high rate of hepatitis B and C virus infection, describing the disease as dangerous and requiring state and societal interventions in terms of detection in blood samples and delays in treatment. Health services are causing disastrous consequences, stressing that viral hepatitis elimination programs require universal health coverage for all infected people in order to save lives.
Different countries, while the number of people infected with the virus has reached one million people who die from viral hepatitis, and 10% of the world know that they are infected with viral hepatitis, and 9.5 million people are undergoing treatment for hepatitis.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Malik Aqar Air spoke on Sunday at the Coral Hotel, during a workshop on localizing organ transplants in the country, organized by the Sudanese Association for Liver Transplant Care and Localization in Sudan in Port Sudan, saying that the country is on the verge of ending the war and needs activities that indicate its willingness to work in development projects.
Aqar affirmed his support for the work of the association and promised to adopt the recommendations of the workshop, in order to localize organ transplants.
For his part, the President of the Society, Dr. Muhammad Al-Sharif, said that the workshop aimed to discuss the working papers that discuss, present and address the issue, stressing that the importance of the workshop is part of the plans and efforts of the Society. contribute to the development of national capacities in organ transplantation and strengthening global cooperation with a number of counterpart societies, with the participation of a group of interested specialists and officials, in addition to the symbols of health work in the country, as well as doctors from the country. inside and outside Sudan.
The federal health ministry has said in previous statements that the high rate of hepatitis C virus infection and its control would require $170 million.
It is worth noting that Sudan experienced liver transplantation for the first time.
The association organized the workshop with a wide participation of doctors and scientific delegations from India, Egypt and several countries, and confirmed the success of two liver transplant operations at Alia Hospital of the Medical Corps before the war.
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