Luanda - Angola is since Thursday taking part in the 12th Pan-African Regional Congress of Military Physicians to address scientific topics, such as acting in specialised assistance and management of preventive, environmental and veterinary medicine, among others.
According to a statement issued by the Angolan Embassy in Egypt, the three-day meeting will also offer training in the treatment of field trauma, by sharing experiences and expectations during lectures, discussions and seminars, organised by the International Committee of Military Medicine.
The military doctors will share experiences on the lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic, and the modalities and services in tertiary military hospitals, disaster management, trauma and field surgery.
The programme also includes scientific pharmaceutical research, the development of military educational nursing facilities, health and epidemiology, immunisations and chemoprophylaxis for the prevention of infectious diseases.
The forum will also hear about the Initiative of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt to combat the causes of blindness, the qualities of working as a UN Peacekeeping Force, the participation of women in peacekeeping forces and a lecture on the strategy to dealing with Covid-19 - the changes in the incidence of infectious diseases in China during this pandemic and its imported variants.
Angola is represented by the Military Health Service specialists André Maria Chimuco and Fernando Kuatoco.
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