Presseerklärungen

105. DOG-Kongress in Berlin
Nachlese zum 105. Kongress der DOG 

Ansprache von Dr. Dunera R. Ilako (Nairobi, Kenia) ,
Leiterin der Augenklinik der Universität Nairobi

Dr. Dunera R. Ilako (Nairobi, Kenia)
Leiterin der Augenklinik der Universität Nairobi

Mr. President,
members of the society,
Ladies and Gentlemen.

I bring you greetings and sunshine from the continent of Africa. Jamboni, hamjambo! Our African colleagues would have returned the same greeting saying “Jambo!” so I expect you to return and say “Jambo!” – Thank you very much!

We really feel privileged and honoured, I in particular, to stand before you to celebrate with you your 150 years. It’s no mean task! My colleagues before have mentioned the problems of blindness and we all know that most of them are in Asia, most of them again in Africa, sub-Saharan Africa.

As I stand before you here, I represent parts of Africa, East Africa, that has greatly benefited from the relationships that we have had with German organisations. Let me indulge you in that relationship has been existing between us and the Munich eye hospital for close to 30 years. We are slowly heading to a 150 years, which I think is great. And I would love to thank Professor Lund who had started it, Prof. Kampik, who is the current director and who continues to assist and help us let this relationship grow. We all know that among Vision 2020 problems, one of the issues that really concerns us, is human resource development. We have greatly benefited from almost all the German organisations in terms of short-term, long-term relationships with lecturers coming to our institutions and short-term lecturers coming to some of the German universities. One person in this room, that never gives up on us, is Professor Klauß. He is the one, I’m sure, our Central Republican, I’m sure they are here, our African brothers and sisters from Central African Republic, they have been coming to DOG for the last several years and because research is a big part, we’ve not been left behind but we have been assisted in trying to get what Europe can offer and also the kind of diseases that we do have. So we have collaborated with researchers in our areas. I hope this relationship will continue and we really want to wish you a wonderful, wonderful Happy Birthday.

But as we individually have relationships with universities, we’d like that we have our relationship - right now we are trying to create a relationship between South and South, North and South. We have started a networking process between our societies in West Africa and with our societies in South Africa and now our Ophthalmological Society of East Africa, know as OSEA, OSEA has been in existence for at last 28 years or so. We started in 35 years but the relationship has been a little long-going. So as a society as well, we are wondering, if we could develop a link now between OSEA and DOG. So if we could start that linkage, I think the bond will be much stronger and will create a wonderful marriage.
Happy Birthday German Society of Ophthalmology! Thank you.

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