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The 1st. Arab International Conference for People with DiabetesMovenpick and Novotel Hotels, Heliopolis, Cairo 26-29 March 2002
Lets Live for the future, Not just for today, so lets all share and participate
IntroductionTeam
Work and Partnership Good diabetes care means, in today’s modern
world,
team work.
The
most important member of this team is the patient.
It does not matter what the treatment is or the expertise of the health
professionals, if the patient is not fully involved with the care, the outcome
will be a failure. People with diabetes have to take dozens of
daily decisions that will have a repercussion on their diabetes and lives.
They have to receive the adequate knowledge and training to take these
decisions wisely.
Motivation to take the correct decision is not a character trait.
Motivation comes from knowledge and reasoning of the facts. These Conferences also
offer an invaluable opportunity for all members of the team to understand each
other better, which is an indispensable
requisite for
María L. de Alva
The first actual description of diabetes back to some of 1500 B.C. where the pharaoh doctor has noticed the accumulation of ants around the urine of some people rather than the others. Hess Raa has described it as curable disease, then Gallinious spoke about it in the Roman's books but the accurate description of the disease and its complications came in the book of the president Ibn Sina the law in medicine. Treating diabetes by manipulation of the diet is certainly the oldest form of therapy and has been practiced by the Egyptians 1500 B.C. and this was confirmed when professor George Ebres has discovered an ancient Egyptian papyrus with two meter length and 30 cm width in Upper Egypt in Luxor, this papyrus contained an accurate description of diabetes and its possible ways of therapy by dieting. The most great advance in diabetes was the isolation of Insulin by Abating and Best in 1921, in 1935 Joslin wrote: The goals of appropriate therapy for diabetes. And now Egypt also hosts such unique Forum for People with diabetes to provide vision, and continuous education and awareness for people with diabetesMahmoud Ashraf MohamedConference PresidentOur Conference and Our MissionOur mission here is not just developing a conference but it is a forum establishing a base concept that is people with diabetes can achieve energy to enjoy life and to look to the future with confidence as normal life through the implementation of 'living with diabetes' and there is nothing called patient of diabetes. 'We are all here to join, share and participate life'. This concept will be provided through
Who
Should Attend our Event?
Contact InformationTelephone +2.012.213.1868 (from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm) C MT ; Dr. Mahmoud Ashraf +2.012.334.3950 (24/7) CMT; Eng. Yasser Kamal.
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