REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NUSA DUA -- International delegations have started arriving in Bali to attend the 41st International Committee on Military Medicine World Congress on Monday that will be held at Bali Nusa Dua Center (BNDCC), Bali, on May 17-22.
"From 98 countries, there are currently 58 delegations arriving to attend the ICMM," Army Chief of Staff of the Ninth Regional Military Command (Kodam IX) Udayana Brigadier General Hadi Kusnan said here on Sunday (17/5).
The delegations comprised high military officials and military doctors who will attend the conference that will be hosted by The Indonesian Ministry of Defence and the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM), in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Surgeon General of Indonesian Defence Force and Indonesian Military Medicine Association (IMMA).
Topics of interest will consist of health aspects of protecting the health condition of armed forces personnel, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, chemical-biological-radiological and nuclear, emerging infection diseases and re-emerging diseases in specific military population, environmental and preventive medicines, emergency management of battlefield injuries, military health Education and training, military health promotion and rehabilitation.
The conference was scheduled to be opened by Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Monday at 9:30 a.m. local time, followed by a general lecture by Minister of Defence General (ret.) Ryamizard Ryacudu.
The congress will also invite local, regional, and international speakers and academicians to share their knowledge and experiences in various fields of military medicine in a plenary meeting, a workshop, round tables and poster sessions.
The plenary sessions will discuss some topics such as Ebola Hemorrhagic Disease as a Novel Virus in Emerging and re-emerging Infectious Disease, Peace Keeping Force in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operation, Chemical Biologic Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Hazards in Military Personnel and Combat Casualties Care and War Surgery.
Doctors from the World Health Organization (WHO) such as Dr. Eric Bertherat and some military doctors from United States, France, China, United Kingdom and Thailand will present their paper on the Ebola topic.
ICMM was established in 1921, after World War I, to increase the cooperation between the health services of the Armed Forces Medical Services. It is an internationally recognized organization located in Belgium.
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