Doha: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) conducted the first Qatar National Obstetric Ultrasound Training Course to highlight novel technologies and latest techniques in pregnancy-related ultrasound scans.
Over 200 healthcare professionals from HMC, Sidra Medical and Research Centre, Primary Health Care Corporation and other Qatar-based private healthcare organisations took part, including local obstetricians, family physicians, sonographers and allied professionals.
The two-day course was organised by Feto-Maternal Medicine Unit (FMU), Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Women’s Hospital, and featured lectures and demonstrations by experts. It provided a platform for participants to gain advanced knowledge and skills to efficiently understand and perform ultrasound examinations.
The course was led by local, regional and international speakers, including Dr Tim Van Mieghem, Consultant, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, and Dr Ali H Al Ibrahim, Consultant, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dammam Maternity and Children’s Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
Course Chairperson and Senior Consultant, FMU, Dr Najat Khenyab, said: “Ultrasound is central to pregnancy assessment and one of the most useful diagnostic tools in caring for women during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-delivery recovery period.
“It is of utmost importance to us that healthcare practitioners working in the area are provided with the most advanced training, centred on latest research and international best practices.
Course Co-chairperson and Consultant, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dr Sawsan Al Obaidly, said: “Our aim is to enhance the identification rate and stimulate early detection of fetal abnormalities through ultrasound modalities. This will reflect on early referral of patients to FMU, where we will provide proper diagnosis through non-invasive and invasive testing and counsel parents regarding the developmental status of their unborn child,” he said.
The Peninsula
