JEDDAH: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) will host the 8th International Nursing Symposium: titled Nurses Transforming Healthcare Monday and Tuesday at the Hilton Hotel, Jeddah.
The symposium is co-hosted with the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN).
The symposium reflects the role of nursing in shaping health care practice, policy, research and education. It brings together international, national and regional nursing and health care leaders from across the Middle East. It also provides a learning and networking environment that will assist attendees to enhance their knowledge, skills and clinical practice in providing extraordinary care for all patients, families and the wider community.
The core themes of the symposium include: Transformational leadership, education and professional development, research and evidence-based practice, transforming bedside practice and technology transforming practice.
Nurse leaders, researchers, educators, clinical experts, bedside nurses and nursing students from Saudi Arabia and from neighboring countries across the Middle East are encouraged to participate.
As a Magnet Accredited institution, King Faisal Specialist Hospital is committed to raising the standards of nursing in the region to better serve the needs of the population. Currently at Jeddah’s King Faisal Specialist Hospital, 14 percent (160 nurses) of the workforce are Saudi. Saudi nurses also occupy 25 percent of the senior nursing positions the facility.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital hosts 8th International ‘Nurses Transforming Healthcare’ Symposium
King Faisal Specialist Hospital hosts 8th International ‘Nurses Transforming Healthcare’ Symposium
Saudi surgeons train Indonesian doctors in maxillofacial, thyroid surgery
- Saudi team is embedded with a general hospital in eastern Indonesian city of Makassar
- During their stay in Indonesia, they performed free maxillofacial, thyroid surgery on 60 patients
JAKARTA: A 19-member surgical team from Saudi Arabia has trained Indonesian doctors in oral, maxillofacial and thyroid surgery under a King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center program to expand access to advanced medical procedures in eastern Indonesia.
The Saudi medics were embedded with their Indonesian colleagues at the Wahidin Sudirohusodo Central General Hospital in Makassar, South Sulawesi province.
“KSrelief’s medical team consisted of surgeons and consultants, so doctors from our hospital had the opportunity to directly observe surgical procedures done by the Saudi doctors that have never been performed here,” Aulia Yamin, spokesperson of the Makassar hospital, told Arab News on Tuesday.
“There were also in-depth discussions on diagnosis and plans for surgery for highly complex cases.”
The KSrelief team was in Indonesia in late December, during which Saudi doctors performed free maxillofacial and thyroid surgery on 60 patients, she added.
The transfer of knowledge by KSrelief also supported Indonesia’s health system transformation plan, which seeks to improve access and quality of services in all regional government hospitals, particularly in eastern Indonesia.
“Makassar is the primary transportation and health referral hub for eastern Indonesia, which means there’s a high number of cases requiring maxillofacial and thyroid surgeries,” Yamin said.
“We hope that this collaboration can continue in the future for other cases, so that more Indonesians can benefit from the program.”
The KSrelief program had also included guest lectures by the Saudi doctors, covering facial and jaw reconstruction as well as updated and new approaches to paranoid gland surgery.
“We’re really thankful to the very hard work that we saw here. The (Indonesian) team was with us day and night and throughout very long surgeries and very complex surgeries,” Prof. Basem T. Jamal, who led the KSrelief team in Makassar, said in a video statement.
“And not only was it supporting the medical effort, but there was always interest in expressing and exchanging knowledge and experiences, and it was really really, a very rich experience for all of us.”
KSrelief has conducted similar programs in other parts of Indonesia, including in Medan, North Sumatra in 2024 that focused on training Indonesian doctors in advanced cardiac procedures on adults and children.
