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Terminal chronic kidney failure: Only 1,000 transplants since 1986
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 ALGIERS- Head of the Algerian Association of Nephrology, dialysis and Transplant, Pr. Tahar Rayane said Wednesday here that "only" 1,000 kidney transplants have been carried out since 1986 for Algerian patients with terminal chronic kidney failure, highlighting that this figure should have been the annual average of transplants.
Talking in the El-Moudjahid daily forum, Pr. Rayane noted that 600 kidney transplants have been carried out in Algeria since this date (1986), while 400 were make abroad, adding that regular increase of number of patients with this pathology is "very worrying." |
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Algeria-Serbia: Medical and Pharmaceutical cooperation on the agenda
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 ALGIERS- Algerian-Serbian cooperation in the medical and pharmaceutical field has been at the centre of discussions Wednesday, in Algiers, between Health, Population and Hospital Reform Minister Said Barkat and Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Regional Development Mladan Dinkic.
Both sides stressed the necessity to develop technical cooperation in terms of specialized care and pharmaceutical partnership.
The draft agreement about the conditions for Serbian specialist doctors, ensuring both medical care and training in Algeria, was tackled by the two sides who emphasized the need to finalize it as soon as possible, said Barkat. |
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Public health practitioners keep on strike
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 ALGIERS- Public health practitioners decided Saturday here to keep on strike until their demands are met, threatening of starting again their weekly rallies if dialogue with the ministry doesn't culminate in a solution.
"We will start holding rallies if we don't reach an agreement with the ministry and if our demands are not satisfied," Lyes Merabet and Mohamed Yousfi, respectively heads of the national union of public health practitioners (SNPSP) and the national union of public health specialists (SNPSSP), said at a weekly press briefing.
However, the two unionist leaders greeted the conciliation meetings they held with ministry representatives last week. |
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450 cochlear implant surgeries in 2009 nationwide
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 ALGIERS- A total of 450 cochlear implant surgeries were carried out in the different departments of otolaryngology (ENT) in 2009, while over 600 others are scheduled for 2010, said Thursday Omar Zemirli, head of the ENT Department of Issaad-Hassani Hospital (Beni-Messous, Algiers).
Speaking on the sidelines of a roundtable on cervical paragangliomas, he pointed out that 75 cochlear implant surgeries were carried out over the past two years in his department,
The State has included the need to treat deaf-mute children at an early age among the priorities of the public health sector, so as to prevent from growing up with a disability, he added. |
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One in five people suffer or will suffer from back pain
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 ALGIERS- One in five people suffer or will suffer from back pain, said Saturday in Algiers Professor Sabria Abetroune, head of the rheumatology department at the Lamine Debaghine university hospital. During a conference dedicated to public general practitioners and specialists, Pr. Abetroune stressed that back pain spared no age group and affects particularly the spine and bones. She also noted that awkward movements and obesity, as well as hereditary factors, were some of the causes of this disease. A better coverage of this "disease of the century" requires carrying out extensive clinical examinations, she recommended. |
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Public health practitioners carry on their strike
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ALGIERS- Public health practitioners have decided to carry on their strike despite the meeting of conciliation, held on Thursday and which brought together the secretary general of Health Ministry and the National Union of Public Health Specialists (SNPSSP), announced Saturday here the leaders of the striking unions (SNPSP and SNPSSP).
"We met with the secretary general of the Health Ministry on Thursday, in the presence of representatives of the Civil Service and the Labour Inspectorate. We are happy that we have started dialogue, but we have clearly said that we are not going to end the strike until solutions are provided for the two striking unions," SNPSSP Chairman Mohamed Yousfi told the press. |
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Five kidney transplants at Beni-Messous teaching hospital
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 ALGIERS- Belgian professor Jean-Paul Squifflet voluntarily carried out on Thursday, with the help of an Algerian surgical team, five kidney transplants at Issad Hassani teaching hospital of Beni-Messous for patients aged between 5 and 23 years.
The diseased are children suffering from congenital malformation complicated with kidney reflux disorders.
The transplants were carried out within the framework of medical cooperation between Algeria and Belgium, and as part of the development of the national kidney transplantation programme.
The children, from different provinces, have received kidneys from living donors (parents and relatives). |
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