Honorary Secretary Report for the Year 2005 to 2007

On 2 May 2007, the BGM of OGSHK was held in the Ballroom, Langham Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui and the following cabinet 2007 to 2009 was elected:
President: Dr. LAM Siu Keung;
Vice President Dr. LEUNG Kwok Yin;
Honorary Secretary Dr. AU YEUNG Kam Chuen;
Honorary Treasurer Dr. MOK Ka Ming;
Council members Dr. FOK Lai Ling Nancy, Dr. CHAN Kuen Ting, Dr. CHAN Yuk May May, Dr. WONG Se Hung Wilfred, Dr. LEUNG Tak Yeung.
Dr. Dominic LI remained as ex-officio member.
Prior to the BGM, Professor John Newnham from Australia delivered a lecture on "Fetal origin of adult diseases" and was well attended by members.
Some of the photos taken at the BGM/lecture/dinner were shown.
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Honorary Secretary Report for the Year 2003 to 2005

• BGM and Scientific Meeting on 2 May 2007
• Biennial General Meeting
• Postgraduate Educational Activities
• The Journal of Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Midwifery
• Public Educational Activities
• International and Local Representation
• Members Welfare

The 22nd BGM was held on 10 th June 2003 at Sheraton Hotel. It was attended by 43 members. The following Council was elected to serve for two years.

The 23rd BGM will be held on 3 rd May 2005.

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Scientific Meetings

Organisation of scientific meetings is a major task of the Society. Scientific meetings serve many purposes: scientific exchange, social function and postgraduate education (CME & CNE). In these two years, there were 16 meetings held as shown in the following table. The number of meeting was slightly less than the previous years because of the SARS effect and the economic downturn. A few meetings are under preparation. The Perinatal Conference in 2003 & 2004 organized jointly by The Perinatal Chapter of OGSHK & the Hong Kong Society of Neonatal Medicine (HKSNM) were of the largest scale. The attendance rate of these meetings, both from regular and associate members, was excellent.  

OGSHK Scientific meetings 2003-2005

Forthcoming Meeting (tentative dates)

In the future, we hope to upload the audio +/- video image of the lectures into the Society website, so that members who cannot attend can read through the contents of the talk at a later date. In the meantime, we will upload the PowerPoint slides into our website first (subject to the approval of the speaker).

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Under the capable leadership of Dr Lawrence Tang, chief editor of the HKJOGM, our journal is now coming to the fifth year. Because of the SARS epidemic and other factors, there was some delay in the publication of the journal. The 2003 issue (volume 4) will be published shortly. The journal was well received by our members as well as colleagues from other specialties. We need your support to make it a success. Your articles and comments are welcome.

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Public lectures

During these two years, we have jointly organized lectures for public with the following organizations: Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and Wyeth HK Ltd. The topics included women’s health in particular menopausal problems and HRT, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. On behalf of the Society, we would like to thank all the guest speakers.

Public Health Hotlines

A public health information hotline has been functioning since 1999. The response was good. Pre-recorded message on common obstetrical, gynaecological, breast feeding and baby care problems were always ready for retrieval by dialing 2599 8333. The hotline was collaborated by our Society & Wyeth HK Ltd.

Booklet and VCD

A VCD on Menopause Health 《擁抱更年期，活出我姿采》 was produced in May 2003 with the sponsorship of Eli Lilly Ltd. The contents included physiology and symptoms of menopause; diet and exercises; modalities of treatment and prevention of complications etc. This VCD was released on June 10, 2003 and distributed free to the public. Each of our member also received one copy and additional copies to patient can be ordered.

Media announcements and Interviews

We commissioned a study on the knowledge and worry of birth control methods and oral contraceptive pills of Chinese women which was carried out the study centre of CUHK. A press conference was held on 12 August 2003 and attended by Dr. Dominic Li and Dr. Nancy Fok. Members who are interested in the study can contact the Honorary Secretary for the full report.

The OGSHK also participated actively in other public health related activity like the Johnson and Johnson baby massage competition (8 August 2004), antenatal knowledge survey press conference (2 May 2004). A Menopause Carnival was held on October 17, 2004 to commemorate the World Menopause Day at the HA Headquarters. It was a whole day event with public health talks, talk-show by celebrity and a fashion show for menopause ladies designed by Mr. Tang Tat Chi. A press conference on “New Generation of Menopausal Women Attitude Survey” was held on October 14, 2004 preceded the carnival to arose public interest on the health issues of menopausal woman in this Generation . Results of the survey were archived at the HKU Medical library for public access.

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Donations to AOFOG and FIGO

The Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Hong Kong have made the following donations to AOFOG and FIGO on their plea and request:

USD 5000 to AOFOG Tsunami Fund for the O&G units of hospitals devastated in South East Asia, AOFOG will strictly supervise the use of the funds (total donations from all other O&G societies in Asia amounted to USD 64950 on 9 th March 2005)

USD 5000 to FIGO for acquisition of a permanent headquarter in London (they previously resided in the premise of RCOG)

We hope all of our members will agree and support the two meaningful donations as stated above.

We are one of the supporting societies for the Asian Pacific Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Infertility held in Bangkok from 25-28 November 2004.

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At present, we have 310 members. Welfare benefits would be announced in our Newsletter and updated at our Website: http://www.medicine.org.hk/ogshk. We are in the process of upgrading the Website with the help of Dr. May Chan. We will have our domain name http://www.ogshk.hk (under migration) and that will facilitate the functioning of the society web. There is a public area and a members’ area which require login password. The login name for the members’ area is member and the password is hkogs-ma. Council information, information on international conferences and sponsors from pharmaceuticals etc. will be posted on the web. We sincerely hope all members will make more use of the web page in future. We send application forms to all COS and DOM of public hospitals on a regular basis to recruit new members.

Nomination of members to attend international meetings

The OGSHK will support sponsorship for our members to attend local or international meetings/conferences all the year round. The supporting organizations are mainly from pharmaceutical and nutritional companies.

Medicolegal indemnity

Knowing the sky rocketing increase of medicolegal indemnity for O&G doctors in Hong Kong, meetings were held with representative from HKCOG, HKMA, Medical Protection Society to explore for possible solutions and strategy (dates of meeting: 13 Jan 2004, 25 June 2004 and 17 March 2005). We hope some measures can be taken to rectify the problem.

Certificate course

We had organized a certificate course on gynaecology for the public with the Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong from July to August 2003. The response was very good and that also generated income for the Society.

April 2005

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