The College of Medicine organizes an awareness workshop on the importance of the green cover and its positive impact on public health The workshop reviews: The green cover in Baghdad College of Medicine as a model In accordance with the government program and its goals of achieving sustainable development that preserves wild ecosystems and combating desertification, the College of Medicine at the University of Baghdad, under the patronage of the Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Ameen Al-Alwani, organized an awareness workshop on the importance of green spaces, this morning, Tuesday, the twelfth of March. In the college's graduate hall. The workshop, which was presented by Mr. Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs, Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Basil Ismail, Mr. Assistant Dean for Administrative Affairs, Dr. Oday Taher Al-Hashemi, and Mr. Head of the Graduate Studies Division, Professor Dr. Ghassan Thabet, was attended by a number of the college’s members, including teachers and employees. The workshop was held with the aim of raising collective awareness of the importance of green cover and the afforestation process, which contributes to improving the environment and reducing temperatures, in addition to providing recreational spaces that help reduce the phenomenon of global warming resulting from the lack of cultivated areas and the increase in carbon dioxide emissions. The workshop also reviewed the effects of desertification on the environment, and provided examples of models from universities and colleges that still maintain their green cover, especially the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, which also consists of choosing specific types of trees known to provide large areas of shade without negative effects on the soil and water. In the same context of interest in National Planting Day, which comes within the directives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and which coincides with the initiative of the Prime Minister to plant five million trees and palm trees, the College of Medicine organized multiple activities, represented by a planting campaign in the college gardens, and disseminating educational posters in the corridors. The college and its main gates. It is noteworthy that, during the current academic year, the college carried out many sustainability campaigns for gardens and the planting of permanent trees and seasonal plants, with the generous efforts of the college dean and the Voluntary Works Committee, with the active participation of all teaching, professional, and student groups, to move forward in protecting the natural environment and climate.
