2011 Annual Meeting of the ASIAN HOSPITAL FEDERATION (AHF) Board of Governors 2010



From left to right (sitting down): DR. Dr. Sutoto, Mkes (President of Indonesian Hospital Association), Dato’ Dr. Jacob Thomas (President of Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia), Dr. Adib A. Yahya, MHA (AHF President 2010-2011), Dr. Ruben C. Flores (President of Philippines Hospital Association), Dr. Muki Reksoprodjo, SpOG (International Division, Indonesia Hospital Association).

From left to right (standing): Dr. Fukui Tsuguya (Japan hospital Association), Dr. Tsuneo Sakai (President of Japan Hospital Association), Chih-Hsiung Wu, MD., PhD (Vice President of Taiwan Hospital Association), Dr. Kwang-Tae Kim (Korea Hospital Association), Dr. Lawrence Lai (Senior Advisor, Hong Kong Hospital Authority), Dr. Wasista Budiwaluyo,  MHA (SecGen AHF 2010-2011).



The Annual Meeting of AHF Board Governors just recently held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 19th of October 2011.  The meeting was attended by 7 member -  country i.e.: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan while UAE & Australia were absent. Hosted by the Indonesian Hospital Association in conjunction with the 11th of Indonesia National Seminar and the 24th of Hospital Expo.  More than 800 hospital and healthcare managers  has gathered for the National Seminar from all over Indonesia and more than 400 booths registered in the Expo.

During this year meeting, the Board also has accomplished the election of the next AHF President and President Elect January 2012 to December 2013.  Dr. Owen Curteis from the Australian healthcare was actually elected  as the President Elect 2011-2012 but due to some reason, The Australian Healthcare decided to demission the assigment.  As the result, the Board has voted Dato’ Dr. Jacob Thomas (2012 – 2013) as the next AHF President and Dr. Ruben C. Flores as the AHF President Elect (2012-2013).

As well as Board Meeting, AHF also organised a Symposium with topic: “Hospital Disaster Management – Lesson Learned” and was received ( with ) a very succesfull (response) from the audience.  The Federation is enthusiastic to continue the program activity in future to benefit the members by sharing knowledge and experience in every country.  The AHF President, Dr. Adib A. Yahya, MHA said,” In the Asia-Pacific region, people are severely affected by earthquakes, typhoons, floods, lamdslides, volacanoes, droughts, tsunami, wildfires and other natural hazards.  Asia’s vulnerability is compounded by socio-economic conditions that have steadily increased the impact of disasters.  Demographic changes, urbanization and environmental degradation have reduced the amount of habitable land available, forcing the settlement of hazard-prone, marginal lands, such as flood plains and steep sloves”.  He added,” One of our challenges is to think the unthinkable and reduce our risk of disasters.  We need to invest in disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction work.  Prevention save lives.  If each country focuses on their specialties and shares that with the rest of the region , we’ll be better of.

Note:  The above was lifted from the official post of the AHF.