Since the day before yesterday, Oran has hosted the 8th International Days of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This medical event is organized by the Disability Observatory of Rehabilitation and Health Ethics (OHRES) and the physical medicine and rehabilitation department of Oran University Hospital.
More than 400 participants including nationally and internationally renowned professionals, specialists from all regions of Algeria, Tunisia, France and England took part in this scientific event.
“Physical and rehabilitation medicine is the perfect example of the holistic specialty that treats not symptoms, but the human in its physical, cognitive, psychological, social and environmental dimensions. It is in this spirit that our congress attempts to cover all the themes respecting this holistic aspect,” explains Professor Khaled Layadi, President of these days, head doctor of the Physical Medicine department at the University Hospital and President of OHRES.
This meeting is intended to be interdisciplinary and interests a wide range of professionals, both doctors and paramedics, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, neuropsychologists and psychologists. “In addition to the exchange of knowledge and skills, the event also aims to enrich and train young people with the hope of making them want to explore more and more the multiple facets of our beautiful specialty” indicates the Professor Layadi. Various themes are on the menu ranging from neuro-rehabilitation, to spasticity, including cerebral palsy, as well as functional rehabilitation for neurological pathologies such as: stroke, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and lesions. medullaries. The objective is also to emphasize the needs still to be developed in Algeria both in terms of equipment and financing in order to optimize the provision of care to Algerian patients.
This congress is also an opportunity for participants to formulate a plea in favor of this specialty which needs recognition from those responsible for the health sector, whether local or national. The specialty needs more resources (equipment, personnel) at the level of care structures in the different wilayas.
The need to have a rehabilitation center in large cities is also strongly expressed due to the alarming increase in pathologies generating disability (stroke, Parkinson’s disease, MS, age-related pathologies, etc.) and road accidents which cause either death, or even severe physical, psychological and cognitive disabilities with repercussions on the individual, family, social level and on the cost of care.
