The National Conference entitled: “Mujahid Abdelkader Mahad, the Health Sector in Djelfa and the Sixth Province during the Liberation Revolution”, February 20, 2025

Preamble:
The health field was a mainstay of the liberation revolution, and health men, doctors and nurses played a great role in the revolutionary march in saving the lives of many mujahideen, defying the difficulties of the road from the lack of medical equipment, lack of medicines and the ferocity of the enemy, and Dr. Abdelkader Mahad represented a rare model for doctors in Guelfa and the Sixth Province through his great efforts to provide what the liberation revolution needs in the second region of nursing supplies and conduct urgent field surgeries, and his medical activity extended to the Fifth Province.

The sixth province suffered in many of its areas from the weakness of the health sector and the difficulty of securing hospital centers for the Liberation Army due to the nature of its barren land and the vastness of its desert area, and its natural centers are almost counted on the fingers at a time when the French enemy used destructive weapons that are difficult to deal with the injuries of the Mujahideen, especially the result of incendiary bombs and napalm bombs.) The doctor and nurse were defying the impossible and performing surgeries without anesthesia and in centers lacking the simplest means of medical care…

Objectives of the conference
1. Introducing the role and importance of the health sector during the Liberation Revolution.
2. Highlighting the challenges faced by the health sector in the sixth state.
3. Focusing on the health centers in Jolfa and the most prominent doctors and nurses during the Liberation Revolution.
4. Giving an integrated picture of the role played by the mujahid Dr. Abdelkader Mahad during the Liberation Revolution and after the restoration of sovereignty.
5. Justifying the forms of integration between the historical states in the health field.

Themes of the conference
1. The health sector in the sixth state (health centers and health administrations).
2. Health in Jolfa during the Liberation War (second and third regions).
3. Mujahid Abdelkader Mahad and his role in the health field during the Liberation Revolution.
4. Abdelkader Mahad and his service to the health sector on the eve of the restoration of national sovereignty.
5. Manifestations of integration in the health field between the first, sixth and fifth historical wilayat).