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Doha
Qatar University (QU), in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), virtually hosted Qatar Health 2022 and second Qatar Public Health Conference in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2022, recently.
The theme of the conference was ‘Preparing for the 2022 World Cup and the Response to Pandemics in Qatar – A Multidisciplinary Team Approach’.
The event included several sessions that emphasised Qatar’s focus on providing quality care during mass gatherings and pandemic response through a multidisciplinary team approach.
Over the three days of the event, local and international experts presented more than 75 posters on advanced topics. A research team, formed in collaboration between QU College of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) and Monash University in Australia, won the best poster award for their research ‘Cost-Effectiveness of Non-Statin Lipid-Modifying Agents for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease among Patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus’.
The QU-CPH team comprised Dr Daoud Al-Badriyeh, QU-CPH Associate Professor of Health Economics and Outcomes Research; Dina Abushanab, MPharm, an alumnus of QU-CPH; and the QU-CPH Teaching Assistant Myriam Eljaam, MPharm.
Dr Ousama Rachid, QU-CPH Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, along with seven alumni of the QU-CPH, including Sarra Benammar, who presented the work, in collaboration with HMC Ambulance Service (HMCAS), won both first and second places in the best oral presentation awards.
Their research papers were titled ‘Intravenous fluids in hot pre-hospital environments: Thermal and physical stability of normal saline after exposure to simulated stress conditions’ and ‘Monitoring temperature and humidity in ambulance service rapid-response vehicles and paramedics medication bags: a pilot study’, respectively.
Dr Rachid and his team have been working closely with the HMCAS to investigate and characterize the environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity that may have an impact on the quality of the medications used in out-of-hospital Emergency Medical Settings (EMS), including ambulance vehicles in the field scenes. This is especially important in countries of hot and arid climate such as Qatar and the GCC region, where temperatures may rise above 50°C and humidity may reach over 70 percent.
Dr Rachid said: “The data presented in the two awarded studies in the conference will help in the understanding of the patterns of temperature and humidity variations throughout the four seasons and their impact on the integrity and stability of life-saving medications used in EMS. This project is believed to direct the development of new guidelines of storage, shipping and handling of medications within the operations of the Ambulance Service in Qatar and similar countries of hot climate.”
Doha
Qatar University (QU), in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), virtually hosted Qatar Health 2022 and second Qatar Public Health Conference in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2022, recently.
The theme of the conference was ‘Preparing for the 2022 World Cup and the Response to Pandemics in Qatar – A Multidisciplinary Team Approach’.
The event included several sessions that emphasised Qatar’s focus on providing quality care during mass gatherings and pandemic response through a multidisciplinary team approach.
Over the three days of the event, local and international experts presented more than 75 posters on advanced topics. A research team, formed in collaboration between QU College of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) and Monash University in Australia, won the best poster award for their research ‘Cost-Effectiveness of Non-Statin Lipid-Modifying Agents for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease among Patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus’.
The QU-CPH team comprised Dr Daoud Al-Badriyeh, QU-CPH Associate Professor of Health Economics and Outcomes Research; Dina Abushanab, MPharm, an alumnus of QU-CPH; and the QU-CPH Teaching Assistant Myriam Eljaam, MPharm.
Dr Ousama Rachid, QU-CPH Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, along with seven alumni of the QU-CPH, including Sarra Benammar, who presented the work, in collaboration with HMC Ambulance Service (HMCAS), won both first and second places in the best oral presentation awards.
Their research papers were titled ‘Intravenous fluids in hot pre-hospital environments: Thermal and physical stability of normal saline after exposure to simulated stress conditions’ and ‘Monitoring temperature and humidity in ambulance service rapid-response vehicles and paramedics medication bags: a pilot study’, respectively.
Dr Rachid and his team have been working closely with the HMCAS to investigate and characterize the environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity that may have an impact on the quality of the medications used in out-of-hospital Emergency Medical Settings (EMS), including ambulance vehicles in the field scenes. This is especially important in countries of hot and arid climate such as Qatar and the GCC region, where temperatures may rise above 50°C and humidity may reach over 70 percent.
Dr Rachid said: “The data presented in the two awarded studies in the conference will help in the understanding of the patterns of temperature and humidity variations throughout the four seasons and their impact on the integrity and stability of life-saving medications used in EMS. This project is believed to direct the development of new guidelines of storage, shipping and handling of medications within the operations of the Ambulance Service in Qatar and similar countries of hot climate.”
