{"id":5073,"date":"2013-03-10T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ostomyasiasouthpacific.org.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2024-11-01T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T07:29:01","slug":"vice-presidents-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ostomyasiasouthpacific.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/10\/vice-presidents-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5073\" class=\"elementor elementor-5073\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c1e2b94 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5c1e2b94\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3bb39738 elementor-widget elementor-widget-breadcrumbs\" data-id=\"3bb39738\" 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President of TOWCNA is Ms Po-Jui Yu. She is an ET &amp;amp; is also lecturer in School of Nursing in National Taiwan University. She also is a President of Taiwan Ostomy Association. Ms Elaine Chug, Regional Business Manger, from Coloplast Hong Kong was also present for this dinner. There were many old friends whom I knew from my previous trip to Taiwan in September\/ October 2012.It was a nice feeling &amp;amp;\u00a0renewal of friendship. <\/p><p>We travelled to Tainan which is city in South of Taiwan. I had a lecture\u00a0in\u00a0Patient Club\u00a0of Kaoshiung Medical University Hospital (Kaohsiung city\u00a0 about an hour driving distance from Tainan), Topic: &amp;quot;Living with Stoma&amp;quot;. There were about 30-35 patients &amp;amp; care givers. Ms Amy Mei-Chuan Lin who was head nurse &amp;amp;\u00a0an ET running a stoma clinic in that hospital translated my lecture in local language. Prof. of Surgery Dr Jaw-Yuan Wang\u00a0\u00a0also attended my lecture &amp;amp; told at the end how much surgeons need to know about the needs of the ostomates. Mr Patrick Wong from Coloplat HK so as Ms. Teresa Lee\u00a0,manger Coloplast Taiwan and her local team was also present.<\/p><p>\u00a0I had very good response in 2nd meeting in \u00a0Patient Club in Changhua Christian Hospital (Central of Taiwan Near Taichung city 90 mins. drive from Taichung city), Topic: &#8220;Living with stoma&#8221;\u00a0 for ostomates\u00a0 where Prof. Dr Chen HOD of Division of \u00a0Colorectal surgery, him self translated my lecture. He was very pleased on the response from patients &amp;amp; care givers at the end of lecture. He also commented that there are many aspects of Ostomate&#8217;s life he understood that day.There were about 80 ostomates and care givers who attended that meeting.<\/p><p>Entire Taiwan team of Coloplast lead by\u00a0Ms. Teresa Lee, Manager for Taiwan\u00a0deserves an applaud &amp;amp; congratulations from me for making all arrangements for me to have a very comfortable stay in Taiwan. Most important aspect is that they are\u00a0friendly &amp;amp; kind in nature.<\/p><p>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 14th to 16th March2013<\/p><p>Then I travelled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13th march 2013. Ms Fiona Tai of Coloplast Hong Kong &amp;amp; Ms Pui San Lim ( Coloplast ) of UITM which a distrubutors of Coloplast in Malaysia looked after me in KL.<\/p><p>\u00a0Ms Teresa Lee, Manager Coloplast Taiwan\u00a0was also present for Coloproctolgy meeting in KL with ET from Taipei who also gave a very good account of stoma care in Taiwan in English.<\/p><p>I had good meeting in KL and presentations went well &amp;amp; were received well by almost 100 nurses &amp;amp; few doctors in Associate specialist meeting of division of Coloproctology Surgeons meeting. My lectures were and Psycho social issues of Ostomates Stoma care Training in Asia.\u00a0 Mrs Mariam had organised this meeting..I had long chat with Mrs Revathy Ramamurthy, an ET and\u00a0 a Metron in Government Hospital in KL.\u00a0during my stay in KL.<\/p><p>Mrs Mariam, Vice President , MOSA, An ET &amp;amp; President of Malaysian ET Nurses Association ( METNA ), Metron\u00a0of University Of Malay Medical Center ( UMMC )\u00a0told me that MOSA have by now 70 members.!! Coloproctology surgical meeting had 400 surgeons attending the scientific lectures. I attended few of them on 16th ( 2nd day ), It was of very high quality seminar.<br \/><br \/>I met few of my old friends ( Colorectal surgeons from Malaysia , India &amp;amp; Sri Lanka (Dr Kemal Deen ). He also has promised to organise training workshop in Sri Lanka under \u201cLions For Stoma Care &amp;quot; in last week of December 2013 \/ first week of January 2014. He knows Mr Eric Chan , Coloplast HK\u00a0well &amp;amp; I met Coloplast distributor from Sri Lanka on the\u00a0last Day of the conference. Dr Ms\u00a0April, Colorectal Surgeon\u00a0from UMMC wanted me to give a lecture on Irrigation but I declined on being given only 10 mins. for the same and I did not have the presentation as I had declined to give talk on the subject long before the conferance.<\/p><p>Mrs Pui San Lim, Coloplast manager from UITM, Malaysia \u00a0&amp;amp; her team looked after me very well a d were always looking for how to make me more comfortable during my stay in KL. Singapore : 17th to 19th March 2013 In Singapore it was very productive visit. Mrs Lynette\u00a0 Lai, manager, Coloplast Singapore and her team must have really worked hard to arrange all these meetings at different hospitals and at Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) with Ostomates and CEO and other support staff at SCS.\u00a0 15 ostomates were trained for Visitor training which lasted for over 3 hrs 30 mins and certificate that were given to ostomates who attended this training, had signature of CEO of SCS along with mine.This was a big achievement for ASPOA. CEO Mr\u00a0Albert Ching\u00a0 and\u00a0 Ms Lucy Lim, Manager\u00a0Cancer Support Services, Programme &amp;amp; Services Division,\u00a0along with a surgeon\u00a0Dr Kevin Sng\u00a0&amp;amp;\u00a02ETs from Changi General Hospital (CGH) and 1\u00a0National University Hospital (NUH) attended along with ET Ms Ong Choo Eng from Singapore General\u00a0Hospital (SGH).This was an interactive session.<\/p><p>We had very good breakfast meeting next day at SCS with Mr Albert Ching\u00a0, CEO and his team. It was almost for two hrs that we discussed various aspects on how to go about forming National ostomates organisation under SCS &amp;amp; he has agreed to extend all the help and<br \/>resources of SCS to do that. We also had discussion about needy ostomates &amp;amp; how SCS can help taking\u00a0advantage of newly launched\u00a0package of Ostomy products ( lauched by Coloplast at Half the price)\u00a0for needy patients including receiving donations from different companies.<\/p><p>After that meeting I am convinced that National organisation will be formed soon. Mr Shiv Raj Kapor and Mr Teo , both ostomates from SGH support group,\u00a0also were very happy about the out come of the meeting with SCS. It appears that Mr Teo will be the President and Mr Shiv Raj Kapoor will be secretory of National Ostomy Association of Singapore under SCS.<\/p><p>\u00a0I met three colorectal surgeons from three different hospitals in Singapore.\u00a0 Dr Tan Kok Yang of Khoo Teck Paut Hospital (KTPH), Dr Kevin Kaity Sng &amp;amp; Mrs Nur Madalinah ,Senior Staff nurse of Changi General Hospital (CGH)\u00a0&amp;amp;\u00a0Dr Cheong Wai Kit ,HOD Division of Colorectal Surgery of National University Health System, Singapore (NUHS )\u00a0&amp;amp; discussed with them on\u00a0how to start\u00a0local hospital support group in their hospital\u00a0which will\u00a0join in National association under SCS &amp;amp; all have agreed to lend full support from them. I also met Ms Dincy Lim Chair person\u00a0&amp;amp; her team of support group in Tan Tock Seng Hospital\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(TTSH). She had some reservations about National organisation but eventually came around about this idea after our meeting &amp;amp; discussions. In fact she organised a lovely dinner for me &amp;amp; Lynette &amp;amp; one of my surgeon friend from her hospital ( Dr Sameer Junnarkar specialised in Liver &amp;amp; pancreatic surgery )\u00a0in the elite club of Singapore where bigwigs of Singapore are the members. It was a very nice evening.<\/p><p>I must thank Mrs \u00a0Lynette Lai,\u00a0as she was with me both the days all the time inspite the fact that her eldest son was running high fever &amp;amp; her inlaws had to\u00a0look after him while she was with me all this time.<\/p><p>\u00a0Mr Patric Wong, Senior\u00a0Manager, Asian Emerging markets of Coloplast \u00a0Hongkong and his\u00a0teams in all these countries are fantastic &amp;amp; very good Human beings who want to help ostomates for better life\u00a0with &#8211; out\u00a0expecting financial gain through business. He has passed on\u00a0his values to his team members to help ostomates in all these countries extremely well and successfully.<br \/>\u00a0Talk to you some time in near future.<br \/>Thanks and regards,<br \/>Harikesh.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-639d737f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"639d737f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c0e707 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5c0e707\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-small\">Share this Post<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2de0dae3 elementor-share-buttons--view-icon elementor-share-buttons--shape-circle elementor-share-buttons--skin-gradient elementor-grid-0 elementor-share-buttons--color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"2de0dae3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"share-buttons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid\" role=\"list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_facebook\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Share on facebook\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_x-twitter\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Share on x-twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-x-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-grid-item\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-share-btn elementor-share-btn_email\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Share on email\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-share-btn__icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fas fa-envelope\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28fe045b elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"28fe045b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<!-- PAGE VISITS COUNTER - BASE+POS. -->\n<div id=\"strcpv-page-counter\">N\/A<\/div>\n<style>\n#strcpv-page-counter {\ntext-align: right;\n}\n<\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38237522 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"38237522\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67f004cb elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"67f004cb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President&#8217;s Message Report of my trip to South East Asian Countries in March 2013\u00a0Taiwan : 9th to 13th March 2013 \u00a0I arrived in Taipei on 9th March snd same evening I had dinner with committee members of TOWCNA ( Taiwan Ostomy Wound Continence Nurse Association ) . 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