A scientific symposium was held on Monday morning, 1/29, in the Ibn al-Haytham Hall in the College of Science. The lecturer at the College of Pharmacy, Doctor Moataz Al-Sabah, specializing in cardiovascular diseases, and the teaching staff at the College of Pharmacy, were about counterfeiting in the medical media on social networking sites and the promotion of fake medical news and treatments and their role in endangering lives. Citizens are at real risk and cause death
The symposium emphasized that the goal of spreading this fake medical news and treatments is essentially the life of the citizen and undermining the efforts of the health authorities and their cadres in the country to deliver the correct information and provide the appropriate medical service.
For his part, Al-Sabah stressed that medicine is living in a period of (evidence-based medicine), which is the consensus of specialized experts in the world to use globally agreed upon methods of diagnosis, treatment, and medications that are binding on all medical service providers, and that social networking sites, technology, and artificial intelligence can be misused and transformed into tools. Useful as killing tools for weak souls and those seeking illegal income
The symposium ended with recommendations to the attendees to carry this message to everyone, including relatives and friends throughout society, stating that it is the duty of every person to (verify any medical information or medical treatment published by unknown persons who claim to be specialists) to verify the specialized persons, such as doctors and pharmacists, and to refer to the health authorities in the country. Each in his area of this information. The symposium also urged attendees to cooperate with the security authorities in the country in informing about the promoters of unlicensed medicines and questionable substances so that these authorities can carry out their assigned role in order for the citizen to enjoy a safe and reassuring life.