{"id":13779,"date":"2019-11-25T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gia-Lobzhanidzes-greeting.pdf"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T15:54:46","slug":"gia-lobzhanidzes-greeting-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/gia-lobzhanidzes-greeting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gia Lobzhanidze&rsquo;s greeting"},"author":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gia-Lobzhanidzes-greeting.pdf'>Gia Lobzhanidze's greeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remarks of Prof. Gia Lobzhanidze to the WMA General Assembly<br \/>\nTbilisi, 25 October 2019<br \/>\nMr. Deputy Chairman of Parliament, Mr. President of the World Medical Association, Mr. Chairperson of<br \/>\nCouncil, Mr. Secretary General, dear members of Presidium, dear colleagues, dear guests,<br \/>\nIt is a great honor to greet you in the name of Directors\u2019 Board and members of the Georgian Medical<br \/>\nAssociation, we are happy to host the WMA General Assembly.<br \/>\nI would like to remind you that the GMA became the member of WMA in 2002, in Washington and this<br \/>\nwas a very important step for us. I want to thank again the American Medical Association for their help<br \/>\nand support. After joining WMA, we maximally try to take part in every GA.<br \/>\nThe Georgian Medical Association is the first non-governmental professional organization that was<br \/>\nregistered in Georgia on the 5th<br \/>\nof May, 1989. We turned 30 years old this year.<br \/>\nMy friends and I are proud that we have completed a lot of important projects. We are cooperating with<br \/>\nthe government and have worked on the changes to improve safety of patients, autonomy of doctors and<br \/>\nin general to improve the legal and social conditions of doctors.<br \/>\nWe were the first organization in our region that started a project about healthy life. We organized a lot<br \/>\nof conferences, supported teaching of ethics at the under and postgraduate education level, and<br \/>\nimplementation in everyday clinical and scientific work.<br \/>\nGeorgia is not only the oldest county in the world, but also it is the homeland of Medea, whose name is<br \/>\nthe base of the word \u201cMedicine\u201d.<br \/>\nMedicine was developed in old Georgia, &#8211; \u201chospitals\u201d were established with monasteries and people were<br \/>\nable to get the first aid there. Georgia has a lot of the oldest handwritten medical books.<br \/>\nLast year, the Tbilisi State University and traditional medical education in Georgia turned 100 years old.<br \/>\nThe Tbilisi State University is the leader university in our region and I am sure its potential will grow in the<br \/>\nfuture.<br \/>\nLast year, important changes were made to the Georgian healthcare system, the safety of patients and<br \/>\nthe autonomy of doctors have improved, but lots of more things need to be improved.<br \/>\nI wish all of you a productive GA meeting and I want to advise you to find time and visit the different<br \/>\nbeautiful regions of Georgia.<br \/>\nI wish you success in your professional and personal life.<br \/>\nThank you for your attention!<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Gia Lobzhanidze&rsquo;s greeting Remarks of Prof. Gia Lobzhanidze to the WMA General Assembly Tbilisi, 25 October 2019 Mr. Deputy Chairman of Parliament, Mr. President of the World Medical Association, Mr. Chairperson of Council, Mr. Secretary General, dear members of Presidium, dear colleagues, dear guests, It is a great honor to greet you in the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"file","mime_type":"application\/pdf","media_details":{},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gia-Lobzhanidzes-greeting.pdf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13779"}]}}