Dear friends and colleagues

On behalf of the Trustees of the Egyptian Medical Society in UK I would like to send our sincere condolences to all the members and their families both Coptic and Muslim for the sudden death and loss of HH Pope Shenouda III.
The late Pope Shenouda was not only the Pope of the Copts, but the father of ALL Egyptians. HH was an Egyptian icon who will never be forgotten. 
HH great loss has come in very difficult time when Egypt desperately needs great patriotic wise people like Pope Shenouda to heal and unite the country and take it forward for a much better future.

May God bless his soul.

Regards 
Hesham Kaddour
President
EMS-UK

 Notes for Meeting 

Dear Friends and Members of the Egyptian Medical Society- UK

I am calling for Extra Ordinary General Meeting on the 28 of April 2012 to be held in the Royal Society of Medicine 6pm in place of AGM which could not be held duo to lack of the necessary quorum, the meeting will be followed by key note speaker of a renown Egyptian Journalist and Broadcaster, who will be guest of honour

Agenda 

1. Annual report of the President Mr. Hesham  Kaddour
2. Account report by the treasurer Dr. Lilia Abu Zekry 
3. Election of new trustees by secret ballet organise by the Vice Chairman Mr. M. Latif 

Please indicate by mail or phone or letter that you will be able to attended, if you can’t send proxy to me/ Hesham or Mr M latif clearly stating your name giving the proxy to any of the three official to vote in your behave 

Any eligible member invited to put his name forward for the election of the trustees, please those who are interested send you name indicating your interest to serve the society as would be trustee, please insure that your name is send either to Magdy Ishak or Mr. Latif or Mr. Kaddour 

Kind regards 

Magdy Ishak FRCS. CCIM. FRSM

Dear members,

On behalf of the trustees; I am pleased to inform you that your society has been registered as a charity. You can access the details from the Charity Commission for England and Wales under the name Egyptian Medical Society (UK). You will see the importance of being a registered charity. In addition to all the benefits; I want to stress two important points;

· We are allowed to provide direct aid and support in the medical field to Egypt, so we can buy and donate equipment to Egyptian hospitals and other medical institutions free of VAT payment both on equipment and cost of transport.

· We can claim back 22% on all donations e.g. we’ve raised this year £100,000 so we can claim back £22,000 from HMT. Also the donor can claim back up to 18% tax relief on his/her donation.

I am very grateful to you for your support during the period of hard work to achieve these magnificent changes in the status of the society. I am also indebted to all the trustees for their tireless efforts and hard work to make the change possible.

May I also take this opportunity to inform you of what we have been doing on you behalf this year;

1. We have started sending doctors to hospitals in Egypt, outside of Cairo to operate and teach the local doctors. We have had some teething problems in that respect, but we are aiming to iron them out in future visits.

2. We have set up management training and quality control systems to certain NGOs in healthcare fields.

3. We have donated funds to the Children Cancer hospital in Egypt, direct to named patient treatment.

4. We are supporting Professor Sir Magdy Yacoub in his great efforts to set up a centre of excellence in Aswan for children with major heart disease.

5. Also, we are trying to find ways to help and support the UK members, especially the younger generation. So, if you have any views or ideas, I will be grateful if you could send them to Hesham or to me.

Kind regards

Magdy Ishak