University of Bahrain Holds A Forum In Cooperation with Songkla University of Thailand
A number of medical professionals discussed “ways to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” in the second part of a forum organized by UOB in cooperation with Prince Songkla University in the Kingdom of Thailand on Wednesday July 22, 2020. The forum focused on exchanging clinical experiences and challenges that faced the health sector in the light of the pandemic at both the global and local levels.
The participants, in the presence of more than 200 observers, reviewed the difficulties and challenges facing medical teams while performing their duties in the pandemic, in addition to the medical and therapeutic experience gained by the medical teams during this period.
Three medical professionals contributed to the online visual forum. The Acting Dean for Hospital Affairs at the College of Medicine, Prince Songkla University in the Kingdom of Thailand, Dr. Sarunyou Chaucri, spoke about the affected cases he treated, how he treated them, and the most important difficulties he and his team encountered during the treatment process. The Assistant Dean for Academic Services at the College of Sciences at Prince Songkla University in the Kingdom of Thailand, Dr. Warsch Taweebrida, presented a rubber mask that he invented which medical teams made use of to conduct clinical examinations and treatment. Jamila Al-Mukhaimer, Assistant Professor at the College of Health Sciences and Sports at the University of Bahrain, discussed the professional and therapeutic experiences that doctors had acquired in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the pandemic.
This forum comes within the framework of an agreement between the University of Bahrain and Prince Songkla University, aimed to strengthen individual contacts between scholars, students and employees in both universities, strengthen links of teaching, research and cultural activities, to provide opportunities for exchange between employees and students, and develop and encourage joint research, seminars, conferences and workshops, in addition to assisting each other in obtaining external funding from external sources, and develop joint study programs.
The University of Bahrain signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Prince Songkla University in the Kingdom of Thailand in April of 2017 to promote joint cooperation and to increase the effectiveness of the Confucius Institute, which is active in teaching the Chinese language at the University of Bahrain. Prince Songkla University is a public university established in 1967 as the first university in southern Thailand, and it is composed of five campuses that include thirty nine colleges and academic institutes, four hospitals, and more than forty scientific research centers. It offers 287 academic programs at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels to a body of more than forty thousand students.
