The Minister of Health, Dr Osama Shobokshi, on Tuesday inaugurated a Conference on “Medical Practice from the Islamic Perspective.”
The Riyadh-based King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre organised the two-day Conference. A number of physicians from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad, and a number of Islamic scholars will participate in the Conference.
Addressing the Conference’s inaugural session, Dr Abdel-Halim Kattan, Head of the Conference’s scientific and organizing committee, said that participants of the Conference would review medical practice from the Islamic perspective as compared with medical practice in non-Muslim societies.
Dr Hussein Al-Jazaeri, East Mediterranean Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that Islam advocates excellent moral behaviour and treatment of others kindly and politely, irrespective of their religion or colour. He criticized weak relations between physicians and patients, and the establishment of relations on a material basis.
In an address on the occasion, the Minister of Health, Dr Osama Shobokshi, stressed the importance of the role played by physicians in services of their societies. He highlighted the significance of the Conference, and said that its participants would review a number of medical, scientific and Islamic topics.
30 papers, presented by specialists from the U.S., Canada, Egypt, Pakistan, Syria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will be discussed at the Conference. The official language of the Conference will be Arabic, but there will be simultaneous translation into English.
Source: SPA
