The Sepsis-Alive Course, second of its kind in the world was concluded at the KMC-run Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) where training was provided to the doctors and surgeons from government and private sector hospitals.
The training was aimed at helping the medical practitioners of the third world and developing countries to serve the humanity in more effective way.
The course was held in Karachi Medical & Dental College and ASH in collaboration with European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and Pakistan Society of Critical Care Medicine from 18th to 20th November 2019.
Principal KMDC Prof Dr Mehmood Haider has called the performance of course's participants as satisfactory while he expressed hope that this would pave the way for more advancement in the provision of health care and especially intensive care facilities to patients at local level.
On the first and second day international faculty members from UK, South Africa, Austria, Serbia, Netherlands and Uganda along with local experts gave lectures to physicians, surgeons and acute care specialists on common diseases like typhoid, TB, malaria, cholera along with their management. The experts also gave answers to the questions asked by the trainees during these sessions.
The foreign faculty members said that previously this course was held in Uganda only and now the second one held in Karachi.
The participants of the course said that this course proved beneficial for physicians to do their work in a more improved way.
The inaugural session was held at the Ishtiaq Auditorium of KMDC. Number of speakers from abroad including the faculty members, House Officers and students participated in the course during which experts delivered lecture on SEPSIS cure and management.
This train the trainer's course was aimed at improving the knowledge of health care workers in low and middle-income countries on the management and prevention of acute infection diseases leading to SEPSIS - the result of a massive immune response to bacterial infection that gets into the blood. Sepsis is a medical emergency that becomes fatal or life-changing for many of the individuals who develop this "blood poisoning."
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019