By Lamya Hamad, IOL Staff
CAIRO, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) - The Eighth Conference of the Islamic
Organization for Medical Sciences wrapped up here Tuesday, December 14, by
endorsing the draft of the first international ethical guideline of medical
sciences from an Islamic perspective.
Titled �The International Islamic Code for Medical and Health Ethics,� the
code�s draft will be reviewed, edited and then issued in its final form by the
Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS).
The code idea dates back to 1981 when the IOMS took the initiative of adopting
the Islamic Document for Medical Ethics in a Kuwait conference �to keep human
knowledge on the proper track prescribed by God as He declared Man as His
viceroy on this planet.�
It is, in effect, the brainchild of Dr. Hassan Hathout, a leading board member
of the IOMS.
The four-day conference, opened Saturday, December 11, was organized by the
IOMS in co-operation with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (ISESCO), the Council for International Organizations of Medical
Sciences (CIOMS), Ajman University Network and the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The Cairo-based World Health Organization�s Eastern Mediterranean Regional
Office played host to the conference.
The event brought together a host of Muslim figures, including Sheikh Yusuf
Al-Qaradawi, Haytham Al-Khayat, a WHO advisor and an IOMS�s board member, and
Head of WHO�s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office Dr. Hussein Al-Gaza'ry.
Curricula
In order to further develop and empower the code to put it into practice, 14
recommendations were issued at the closing session.
Chief among which was a call to the ministers of education, the deans of
medical schools in the Arab and Muslim world to integrate the yet-to-be
approved code into their curricula.
Another proposal called for posting the planned code on the web sites of all
medical institutions that pay due attention to ethics.
The code is not only for professionals but for �the people, the family and
society,� Dr. Mu'men S. Hadidi, head of the National Institute of Forensic
Medicine in Jordan, told the gathering.
The WHO�s Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office is further implored to work in
tandem with the ministries of health in the region to set up ad hoc committees
to follow up issues pertaining to medical and health ethics.
Additionally, the IOMS has been urged first to prepare a workshop to explore
how can the new code come into fruition and second to distribute copies of the
code to all health-care professionals.
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Dr. Hussein Al-Gaza'ry addresses the gathering
Dr. Abd Al-Rahman El-Awady, IOMS head, further suggested establishing an
Islamic fund to support medical research in the Muslim world.
For his part, head of the Ajman University Network, Dr. Saed Salman, called for
holding a conference on the ethical issues related to the pharmaceutical
industry and drug research.
The conference has further discussed the doctor-patient relationship including
medical practices, obligations and responsibilities, as well as biomedical
research involving human subjects and the Islamic ruling on pressing medical
questions.
The physicians and scholars have also touched on various sensitive issues,
including surrogate mothers, determining a baby�s sex and euthanasia.
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