The College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, organized an electronic scientific workshop entitled (Radiation, Environment and Human Health) on (Google Meet) program in the presence of a number of teachers and graduate students.
The workshop aimed to fully introduce radiation and its natural and industrial sources and its uses in medicine and industry The workshop also includes the effects of radiation on the cell and how to affect it by explaining the meaning of random and inevitable effects and the stages of the cellular effect of radiation and diseases that appear as a result of exposure to the limits above the permissible of it The workshop also included how to prevent the effects of radiation on the body . The workshop included two main axes, the first is an introduction to radiation and its natural and industrial sources and its uses in medicine, industry and agriculture and its units of measurement, while the second axis included a discussion of the effects of radiation on human health, random and inevitable effects, stages of cellular effect of radiation and diseases that appear as a result of exposure to the above-permissible limits of radiation. .
The lecturers in the workshop recommended reducing the time of exposure to radiation sources as much as possible to reduce receiving radiation doses and leaving the largest possible distance between workers and the radiation source, such as staying away from X-ray tubes and wearing special clothes to prevent the risk of radiation used in the treatment of diseases such as alpha, beta and gamma rays, and X-rays, and the need to use protective tools such as shields, protective curtains, lead aprons, lead jackets, glass glasses, protective screens, etc., and adherence to the principles and laws of protecting workers in The field of health care (doctors, nurses, technicians and others) in health institutions, such as considering the area of use of radiation as an area subject to supervision and control, and the obligation to measure the percentage of radiation every 3 months or 6 periodically, and to adhere to the maximum safe limit of nuclear radiation that must not be exceeded by a person is 5 rem per day, and the REM is the unit of measurement of absorbed radiation, which is equivalent to one trangen of X-rays.