The College of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, held a scientific symposium entitled “Sustainability in Hospitals, Building a Healthy Future.”
The lecture was attended by Dr. Ahmed Abdel Hussein Al-Ibrahimi, a lecturer at Al-Ameed University, College of Medicine, and the director of the Oncology Center at Al-Kafeel Hospital.
And Assistant Lecturer Farah Jawad Kadhim, teaching at the University of Karbala, Biomedical Engineering.
The symposium aimed to define the concept of sustainability, which is one of the modern concepts that has spread recently and appeared for reasons related to industrial development and the large population inflation that has begun to threaten natural resources. The symposium also addressed the most important standards of sustainability in hospitals, including choosing the location of the land, using daylighting and natural heating, as well as insulation. Comprehensive thermal management, waste management and rationalization of energy consumption.
The lecturers pointed out at the end of the symposium that sustainability is not a term applied to environmental matters only, and is not limited to specific governments and companies, nor is it necessarily limited to high-cost technology, but rather sustainability is more comprehensive and simpler, as it is a thought and a way of life.
