Lebanese president to inaugurate 8th Arab surgeons' conference tomorrow

Lebanese President Elias El Hrawi, returning from his trip to Brazil, will inaugurate in Beirut tomorrow the 8th Conference of the Syndicate of Arab Surgeons, which will last for four days. 2,000 Arab surgeons are expected to attend.

Dr. Mohammed Shawky Kamal, secretary general of the Syndicate of Arab Surgeons and Professor of plastic surgery at the faculty of medicine at Ain Shams University stated that the conference will deal with the latest advances about microsurgery. He added that there are about 1,000 papers on the so called "spyglass" bile surgery submitted by the Arab surgeons.