Covid-19: calls for the resumption of medical activities
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- 15 Mar 2022
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Pr. Makrelouf who is also vice-president of the Algerian Association of Clinical Biology, organizer of the 8th international congress from March 13 to 14, underlined the importance of resuming "effectively" the various medical activities, in particular those related to chronic diseases, after the decline in cases of Covid-19 contamination, and to ensure the "good follow-up" of patients impacted by the virus for management of the various symptoms they have experienced.
The speaker also indicated that the Coronavirus pandemic was among the "most important" topics discussed at this year's congress, welcoming in this regard the efforts made by medical personnel in general, and those of biological laboratories in particular.
For Pr. Makrelouf, clinical biology includes five specialties, namely biochemistry, immunology, parasitology, hematology and microbiology, adding that the management of training in these specialties is guaranteed by the faculties of medicine. and pharmacy at the national level. The specialty of clinical biology, he specifies, is subject to recognized international standards, with compliance with certain internal rules specific to each country.
Regarding the effects of the pandemic on clinical biology laboratories, the specialist indicated that despite the constraints and shortcomings suffered by the laboratories when the virus appeared, the public authorities have made up for these shortcomings thanks to the importation, since 2020, of the most modern analysis and screening devices, despite the strong global demand for this equipment, which, according to him, has contributed to the performance of PCR tests in 130 laboratories in the public sectors and private, in addition to antigenic analyzes which are carried out in a very short period of time.
The pandemic, underlines Pr. Makrelouf, has served as a lesson for the medical and paramedical bodies who have, in addition, benefited from unprecedented experience and training.
For his part, the head of the Center for Hemobiology and Blood Transfusion at the CHU Mustapha Pacha, Issam Frigaa indicated that the conference had devoted, given the seriousness of the epidemiological situation, 4 interventions on the subject of the use of modern techniques that make it possible to classify rare haemorrhagic diseases, with a view to more efficient treatment and even lower costs.
Two interventions, moreover, evoked the technique of blood transfusion to the fetus to prevent it from antibodies due to blood incompatibility between spouses. Professor Frigaa reported 297 cases taken care of in this direction, in coordination with obstetricians and gynecologists.
A three-year experience of monitoring external medical analyzes at the level of the Hematology department at the CHU Mustafa Pasha was also presented.
The Ministry of Health had sent, in 2020 then in 2021, an instruction to health establishments summoning them to suspend the management of several chronic diseases due to the increase in the number of cases of contamination with Covid-19, and to ensure the continuity of medical services in surgery, medical emergencies, gynecology, pediatrics, neurosurgery and cardiology only. Read More...
