GRAND OPENING CEREMONY

• 2015/03/24

GRAND OPENING CEREMONY

Grand Opening Ceremony for the Medical Reference and Education Center:In the aftermath of October 12th 2002 a part of YKIP’s charter was to provide and to equip a medical reference and education center (MREC) housed at Udayana University Medical Faculty. Dr. Carlo Fornizetti described our Mission and Vision at YKIP as follows.

• To improve the lives of all those who live in Bali as a tribute to those who were killed, injured or lost their livelihood as a consequence of the terrorist attack of October 12th, 2002.
• · Our Vision is of a better Bali for all including an improvement in medical facilities on the island.
• · YKIP’s Medical Training Committee has held several meetings with the Dean of the Medical Faculty of Udayana University and his staff and a broad agreement has been reached to create a Medical Reference and Education Centre.

The Medical Faculty of Udayana University, which is the main University of Bali, graduates an average of 100 students per year.

• The campus is based in the centre of Denpasar and is divided between 32 Institutions, of clinical and non-clinical disciplines.
• There are already four active post-graduate schools In the Medical Faculty.
• There was no Medical Library.
• The Medical Faculty’s overall activity is based on a limited budget, and assistance from YKIP and its donors would be welcome.Dr. Fornizetti went on to say that the new Medical Reference and Education Center is equipped, thanks to our sponsors, with the most advanced electronic resources to enable users of the Center to access prime information 24 hours a day using a dedicated line server. The electronic library enables users to download medical books and magazines and store them.Professor Suata, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Udayana University thanked Mr. Mark Weingard from the Annika Lynden Foundation – the major sponsor, and YKIP for funding the Medical Reference & Education Centre (MREC) It had taken some time for the plans to be carried out for this important facility for the Institution of Education. It provides students with better access to information in Medical Science since the MREC is equipped with comprehensive facilities such as online Medical References, latest edition of books, including the donation of 10 Computers with internet access.

  Mark Weingard from the Annika Linden Foundation officially opened the Medical Reference and Education Center. He said he could think of no better way of honoring the memory of Annika and all the other victims who had died in the bombing.

  Attending

  Udayana University

  The Dean of Medical Faculty, Udayana University: Prof dr. K. Suata Sp.Mk.Ph.D The Dean Assistance 1: dr. I.G.N. Anom Murdhana The Dean Assistance 2: dr. Nyoman Arcana, Sp.Biok The Director of Wangaya Hospital: dr. Setiawan Department Heads in Faculty of Medicine Udayana University

  Annika Linden Foundation

  Mark Weingard

  YKIP

  David Magson – Chairperson Dr. Carlo Fornizetti – Project Leader Wiwie Harris – Head of Admin Totok Sudarmanto – Treasurer Sylvia Novrianti – Secretary Elizabeth Magson – Member