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29 Research from Five Countries at the Conference of Sulaimani Polytechnic University to Improve the Health Reality of Kurdistan

The specialists of Sulaimani Polytechnic University with their peers from the rest of the Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Bahrain, Iran, Malaysia and Britain discussed ways to promote the health situation in the Region through the discussion of 29 scientific researches.
The conference was held at the conference hall in Faruq Medical City, in collaboration with Country Durham and Darlington, NHS, Leicester University, under the slogan we are all together to improve Kurdistan health sectors).
The Dean of the Technical College of Health, Dr. Mohammed Babaker Mina, said that the conference is a new opportunity to motivate researchers of the college and the university to improve their abilities and absorb the outputs of their research activities and to introduce them as well as encourage them to exchange experiences with their Kurdish, Iraqi and foreign peers. Researchers from the SPU, and other Kurdish universities as well as other researchers from Iraq, Bahrain, Iran, Malaysia and Britain, divided into three sectors: medical, health, society and pure science
For his part, President of the SPU Dr. Alan Faraidoon said,The conference reflects the keenness of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Kurdistan and the SPU to address the problems and challenges facing the local community and contribute to its development through the establishment of a series of scientific activities local, regional and global that contribute to , he said. The participation of Iraqi and foreign researchers in the conference demonstrates the status of the SPU in the regional and global academic community.
According to the researcher Dr. Dana Abdlmajeed Said that the conference is a good opportunity to exchange experiences with foreign researchers and to keep abreast of developments in various health and medical fields. He explained that his research deals with how to use antibiotics correctly in the treatment of burns.
For his part, the researcher Dr. Yousif Mahmoud Awsej, from DURHAM University Hospital in Britain, said that the conference an opportunity to find out the problems and challenges of the health situation in the Kurdistan Region and the possibility of contributing to address them, as well as to identify the Kurdish researchers pointing out that the research presented to explore the bile duct and extract gravel from them in the Nadorian way.
On the other hand, the researcher Dr. Donald John of the University of Leicester -UK, said that his participation in the conference comes as a complement to his supervision of a group of graduate students of Kurds noting that more than 300 Kurdish students completed their studies at the University of Leicester.
John explained that the research presented to the conference addresses the impact of vitamin D deficiency of cardiovascular disease, stressing that vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of heart disease, especially stroke.
The British researcher said that medical research revealed the lack of vitamin D in many of the population of the Kurdistan Region, expressing that University of Leicester welcomed the cooperation with the health and academic Kurdistan and exchange experiences with them.
The conference was attended by a large group of specialists and interested parties crowded conference room, including the former Minister of Health Kurdistan, d. Tahir Hawrami, as well as assistants to the President of the University of Sulaymaniyah Technical, Dr. Suran Saeed, d. Dana Ahmed.
The conference was sponsored by Farouq Medical City (FMC), Farouq Holding Group, SHENYE, RedPoint and LD DIDACTIC.