WONCA News

May, 2016

In Copenhagen in June we are delighted to present: Katherine Rouleau, associate professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto – giving a keynote on Inequality in health and specific patient groups

May, 2016

The winner of the WONCA Global Five Star Doctor Award for 2016 is Dr Atai Anne Deborah Omoruto from Uganda, known to all as Atai. I am sad to advise that Atai passed away in Kampala on May 5, 2016 after a short illness.

May, 2016

Dr Jo Buchanan, president of EURACT reports - a visit to Ukraine. Following the council meeting in Budapest meeting I travelled to Uzghorod in the Ukraine with Pavlo Kolesnyk, at the invitation of Professor Ivan Chopey where I spoke at a national Conference of Family Doctors on the development of Family medicine in Europe.

May, 2016

Dr Sanath Hettige has won the first prize for the best medical invention (2013), for his invention of papaya leaf syrup, tablets and capsules for the treatment of dengue fever and other medical conditions.

May, 2016

May 19. 2016 - World Family Doctor Day. WONCA President, Prof Michael Kidd sends greetings to all colleagues thanking them work they do throughout the year.

April, 2016

World Family Doctor Day is fast approaching. What is your WONCA Member Organization doing on May 19? We already have some proposals for the day from Portugal, the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), and Bangladesh.

April, 2016

This month I want to tell you a little of the recent WONCA Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) conference in Dubai and also provide some feedback on the latest WONCA Executive meeting in Abu Dhabi on 20th and 21st March.

April, 2016

I was in Costa Rica to participate in the 6th Iberoamericana Family and Community Medicine Summit (Cumbre in Spanish), hosted in the capital city, San José, by the Association of Family and Community Medicine of Costa Rica, and our WONCA Iberoamericana CIMF Region, which includes the Spanish speaking nations of Central and South America, as well as Brazil, Portugal and Spain

April, 2016

WONCA has provided a submission to the Commission through the recent public call for contributions issued by the Expert Group of the Commission, and Professor Ruth Wilson (WONCA President North America region) participated in a face-to-face consultation with health professional organisations on 11th April in Geneva.

April, 2016

WHO has just published the document “Communicating radiation risks in paediatric imaging: Information to support health care discussions about benefit and risk”. This document is intended to be a tool for health care providers to communicate about risks associated with paediatric imaging procedures.