المملكة: Diabetes, electronic addiction and psychological crises are major challenges
The Kingdom is a model in responding to global health crises
Mothers and children are the pillar of families and societies
There are many health challenges, including chronic and infectious diseases
6 dangerous complications resulting from diabetes
Smart devices made children vulnerable to e -games addiction
Electronic smoking via Al -Feb destroys DNA
The entry of 7 Saudi hospitals in the “Brand Finance” list reflects the development
Diabetes, electronic games addiction and mental health challenges .. The most prominent risks facing society on World Health Day
The establishment of the organization came so that everyone everywhere can reach the highest level of health and luxury, as well as stimulating work to address the health challenges that the planet is exposed to today or those that we will be exposed to tomorrow.
On the occasion of the International Day of Health, she met “today” Secretary General of the Arab Hospitals Union, Professor of Public Health, a consultant of family medicine and community, Professor Tawfiq Ahmed Khojah, to highlight the health challenges facing the world and ways of prevention.
The following is the text of the dialogue:
First of all .. What is the importance that the International Day of Health constitutes?
World Health Day, which is celebrated on April 7 of each year, aims to raise awareness about decisive health issues
Professor Tawfiq Khoja
And encouraging pre -emptive health measures, as the World Health Day is an important opportunity to unify global efforts to improve human health and build a healthy and sustainable future for all, and every year is chosen for global health topic, focusing on a field that raises concern, and has priority in the WHO scale.
In conjunction with today, the World Health Organization launches a full -year campaign on maternal and newborn health, under the title “A health start for a promising future”, how do you see the importance of this campaign?
Mothers and children’s health is the pillar of families and health societies, which helps to ensure a future future for all, and women and families everywhere need high -quality care that support them physically and emotionally, before birth, during and after, the importance of the campaign is great as it contributes to enhancing the health of mothers and their children, and providing them with health care according to high health quality, and providing healthy information useful for pregnant women related to pregnancy, childbirth and post -birth. In addition, the campaign achieves some goals globally, including ensuring obtaining health services and care that enhance the advancement of women’s health, attention to the health needs of women in remote areas, enhance and strengthen health education and awareness programs directed to women in the stages of pregnancy, setting mechanisms and programs that enhance the mental health of women in the stage of pregnancy and childbirth.
There are many health challenges regarding the aspect of public health, including chronic and infectious diseases, as the world is witnessing a noticeable increase in the spread of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, in addition to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases.
These diseases constitute a major challenge to the health authorities in addressing them and limiting their spread, and there is mental health, with increasing stress and psychological challenges in daily life, many people in the world societies face mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, and this undoubtedly requires providing effective psychological health services and educating societies about the importance of mental health care.
In addition to that, there are challenges to increase obesity and malnutrition rates, as a result of an increased risk of chronic diseases and associated health problems, so it is necessary to adopt health policies that encourage a healthy lifestyle and enhance proper nutrition.
In addition to the above, there are also transit health challenges, as epidemics and epidemiological diseases that suddenly show an international challenge that requires everyone to have international cooperation and coordination to confront them and limit their spread, and we do not forget in this aspect Kovid – 19 which occupied all countries of the world and caused millions of deaths until they appeared thanks to God and his generosity of vaccinations devoted to facing the causing virus that contributed to protecting humanity from the disease Its complications, and lessons learned from Corona were great and contributed to activating all health systems and enhancing global efforts to address diseases.
Health challenge in the Kingdom
Yes .. Diabetes in our country is still a major challenge, and I mean here the second type, and until the image is clear, the type 2 diabetes is one of the types of diabetes that leads to a high level of glucose in the blood, and the result of resistance in the cells of the body of the insulin hormone or insufficient insulin is insulted in the pancreas, as a result of several factors, the most important of which is weight gain and the absence of exercise,
The truth associated with diabetes is that its risks not only depend on the disease, but there are dangerous complications that result from it, including the six, which are:
⁃ Nerve “neuropathy” nerves, as a result of the continuous rise in the blood glucose level, leads to damage to the capillaries walls that nourish the nerve, causing damage to the nerves, which is called diabetes neuropathy “diabetic nerve disease”.
⁃ Kidney damage, when a person develops diabetes and high blood pressure, the patient becomes more vulnerable to kidney damage, as renal insufficiency in diabetics is also associated with neuropathy or nerve damage.
⁃ Eye damage to the retinopathy, as diabetics can develop complications in vision and eye, through retinal disorder or cataracts, as a result of high blood glucose, and an increase in pressure in the eyeball, which leads to damage to the optic nerve.
⁃ Coronary heart disease, diabetes is damaged the blood vessel wall, which causes fat accumulation in the walls and damages and narrows the blood vessels. As a result, blood supply decreases to the heart muscle and blood pressure increases, which leads to sudden heart attacks.
⁃ Stroke, complications of type 2 diabetes can also be a stroke that occurs as a result of high blood sugar levels.
⁃ High blood pressure, as type 2 diabetes leads to high blood pressure that leads to severe eye damage or kidney damage.
The Internet .. a healthy challenge
The Family Affairs Council revealed that more than 98% of children at the age of “10-14” years, and that more than 99% of young children at the age of 15-19 years use the Internet a lot, what do you think?
Technology has played an important role in building the personality of children and adolescents, as technologies and smart devices in their lives formed great importance, and made them vulnerable to addiction to electronic games and the inability to abandon them, and this resulted in the injury and exposure of children to many diseases, including selfishness and aggression, the negative impact in the child’s sleep, isolation from others, violence and bullying, chronic psychological and neurological disorders, the inability to communicate with others, and the risk of others Disorders that are related to obesity and heart disease, as well as back pain and wrist, eye stress, and headache.
Also, some researchers have noticed the existence of negative effects on the behavior of children and adolescents in terms of the reflection of the methods of violence and negative behaviors that do not belong to our great Islamic values, our authentic Arab customs and traditions, which necessitated the existence of extensive academic studies on this phenomenon that deserves follow -up, analysis, criticism and interpretation of psychological and behavioral effects on the child and adolescent.
Here, I stress the importance of the family’s role in proper guidance and the appropriate contribution to raising awareness against the negative damages resulting from the use of electronic games for long periods and its clear impact on the behavior of the child and adolescents, which can be replaced by the useful and appropriate electronic entertainment to build a good generation that can be relied upon to implement the visions, aspirations and hopes of a distinguished society in the future.
The danger of electronic cigarettes “Al -Feb”
All types of cigarettes, including electronic “Al -Feb”, poses a great danger to human health, and the effect of this is not limited to the smoker, but rather includes those around it. They inhale the smoke of cigarettes, which is called “negative smoking”, and the risk increases more on children and people with asthma and chest allergies.
A study revealed that the electronic smoking via VAPE destroys its DNA for its users in a similar manner for cancer smokers, and researchers at the University of London College found that e -cigarette users and cigarette smokers have similar changes in DNA. The cells in their mouths, while linking these changes to the future development of lung cancer in smokers, and from here it is clear to us that the risks of electronic or regular cigarettes are large and dangerous to the body.
The completion of Saudi hospitals
What is your comment about the entry of 7 Saudi hospitals on the “Brand Finance” list of the best 250 world hospitals for 2025?
This achievement, praise be to God, reflects the rapid development of health infrastructure, advanced medical techniques, and scientific research, in order to achieve the targets of Vision 2030 in building a global competitive health system, and our dear country continues – thanks to God – achieving its global achievements in the health sector, as the program of transforming the health sector in public health is concerned with all its components, and worked to facilitate access to health services and raise their quality, through the development and improvement of hospitals and centers Health care and ambulance services and promoting a healthy digital transformation, focusing on prevention before treatment, and maintaining human health inside and outside hospital.
Also, the health successes achieved by the Kingdom made it a destination for treatment seekers from abroad, and this indicates something, as it indicates the success of Saudi hospitals in reaching international levels in service, care and the results of patients, so everything that was achieved came thanks to God and the interest of the rulers and the follow -up of officials and all the health cadres that work with all vigor and activity.
The Kingdom’s health efforts towards the guests of Rahman
Large numbers arrive at millions during the seasons of Ramadan, Umrah and Hajj, how do you see the efforts made by the Kingdom to serve them?
The efforts made by the government of the Kingdom throughout the year in the service of the guests of the Most Merciful and not in the two season of Umrah and Hajj only deny them only.
I do not fail to note the role of the wise leadership in this giving country that pursues an informed policy that contributed and contributes throughout the year to the success of the seasons of Ramadan, Umrah and Hajj, which has an absolute priority for this generous country, which is given in order to provide the utmost comfort, protection and safety for the guests of Rahman.
Health and artificial intelligence
In light of the great development witnessed in the health field in the world, it has become noticeable that the techniques of artificial intelligence as an effective and pioneering tool in the health system, which helps doctors a lot in performing their tasks better, stronger and faster, artificial intelligence is a means of assistance and will not cancel the role of doctors, and its benefits are many in the speed of completing the tasks and accuracy of access to the required information, ensuring the maximum levels of efficiency and providing care Distinguished for all patients.
Artificial intelligence systems may be used to analyze medical images such as X -rays or MRI, and these tools help diagnose various medical conditions such as cancerous tumors, retinal diseases, pneumonia, etc., along with the diagnosis of heart disease, where deep learning algorithms are used to diagnose heart attacks in the same way that cardiologists use, in addition to using artificial intelligence to analyze the data received from patients who suffer from Chronic diseases, such as: diabetes or heart disease, to predict how their condition develops, as well as the role of surgical robots equipped with artificial intelligence capabilities that help surgeons in performing more accurately, and provides simple surgical intervention options, in addition to that there is an aspect of using artificial intelligence in the drug industry.
Avoid acquired diseases
This is achieved by adopting healthy lifestyles, as this is the first step towards reducing the risk of chronic diseases and improving the quality of life, and this includes eating a healthy, balanced food rich in vegetables and fruits, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding harmful habits such as smoking and excessive intake of sugars, also ensuring periodic examination and early detection, especially in the event of a history of satisfactory within the environment of the family, this increases and contributes to improving Opportunities for treatment and reducing complications resulting from chronic diseases and others, as these tests can reveal health problems before exacerbation, which contributes to reducing the financial and medical burden on the health system.
Finally, despite the awareness programs, the circle of some diseases, such as diabetes and obesity, is still expanding, so where is the defect?
The problem is not in awareness programs, but in the absence of adherence to awareness, for example a person who realizes the risk of weight gain and exercises sports and his diet is inevitably weighted will be protected from obesity, but in the event that he ignores the healthy pattern of life and gradually reaches obesity with neglecting weight gain, here it is exposed to the stage of insulin resistance, that is, the stage of diabetes, and in the event that this stage is not corrected also, he increases the chances of developing diabetes. In short, the problem is not in awareness programs, but rather in not being bound by its guidelines and tips, so it is very important that the individual interact with all health awareness programs.
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