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Under the auspices of Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, Dr. Saeed Allam, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, inaugurated today the educational seminar held on the occasion of World Diabetes Awareness Day, preventive and diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic measures for disease cases, and the most important advice for diabetics. The seminar was attended by a group of deans and vice deans of faculties, faculty members, employees, and students in the conference hall at the Faculty of Nursing.
In his speech, Dr. Saeed Allam stressed the university’s keenness to organize educational seminars within the framework of the university’s active participation in the presidential initiative “A New Beginning to Build the Egyptian Person,” which is concerned with building the person in all aspects of life in general and in the fields of health and education in particular. He pointed out that today’s celebration included lectures to introduce diabetes, its causes, symptoms and complications, and the preventive and therapeutic measures for the disease. He recommended that students exercise, maintain their weight, avoid bad eating habits, and follow a safe, healthy lifestyle through healthy food and physical activity, avoid tobacco use, early detection and periodic examinations to detect diabetes, and healthy and therapeutic treatment in the pre-diabetes stage.
For her part, Dr. Nefertiti Hassan Zaki, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, pointed out the importance of raising awareness of diabetes, given the presence of millions of people suffering from this disease, which has had a negative impact on their physical health, to acknowledge the urgent need to continue efforts to improve human health and provide access to treatment and health education. She explained that Alexandria University, in light of the United Nations General Assembly’s declaration that November 14 of each year is World Diabetes Day, is raising the necessary awareness through its scientific cadres and the participation of all societal parties by implementing several activities to spread awareness and health culture related to this disease.
Dr. Gihan Desouky, Professor of Internal and Surgical Nursing Department at the Faculty of Nursing, explained that diabetes is one of the most widespread chronic diseases in the world, with more than 500 million people affected, which negatively affects public health and causes a huge burden on health and economic systems. According to the latest official statistics, Egypt has the highest number of diabetics among Arab countries, reaching 10.9 million people in 2021.
The seminar included presentations by Dr. Iman Youssef, Professor of Internal Medicine and Diabetes and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Education and Student Affairs, and Dr. Salwa El-Badri, Head of the Department of Internal and Surgical Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, to introduce diabetes and how to control it. In the same context, several medical units were organized to measure blood pressure, sugar, height and weight in various faculties of the university with the aim of early detection of blood pressure, diabetes and obesity among students.