Presseerklärungen

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

Ansprache von Prof. Dr. Rubens Belfort (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
Präsident des Congresso Mundial de Oftalmologia, Mitglied des ICO

Prof. Dr. Rubens Belfort (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
Präsident des Congresso Mundial de Oftalmologia, Mitglied des ICO

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of the Brazilian Council of Ophthalmology and the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology I want to salute you ophthalmologists from Germany for your fantastic pasts, your dynamic present and also for a brilliant future. In Brazil, all over America, all over the world in the last 150 years we all received some of our best education coming from your country, your predecessors, your institutions and societies. And it is most important that you all should be proud of and see you like that and it will and will have to be more and more dependent also on you. Education, practice ophthalmology, research, have never been so important in our field. And we all in the world depend on organised societies, organised institutions and congresses that provide the rich and the right environment for these activities.

As an observer of what goes on in life, in medicine, in ophthalmology in the last many years, I see with pride what goes on in our field. The international congress had been revitalised a lot thanks to Professor Naumann and the group that now has a leadership of the International Council of Ophthalmology. The next congress in Hong Kong is going to be a huge success. We all know how important China is for the world, we all know the huge problems they still have regarding vision and blindness. And your presence there - not only as individuals but as a country, as societies - is essential to improve education. After that, we are going to have a fantastic meeting here in Berlin. And again, as an observer and also as a member of the Committee I see with happiness and pride what goes on under the right leadership of Professor Lang and his high-level committees. After that we are going to meet in Dubai and then in Japan and every two years we continue to have the most important congress under the name of WOC. A congress not only for friends to get together but a congress that will provide the right environment for our profession to go ahead. We are in ophthalmology because we care for vision and it’s important not to make medicine go ahead. The challenge is to make modern medicine available to everybody.

 As an ophthalmologist, as an ophthalmologist from Brazil, I think I can represent every ophthalmologist in the world saying that we all depend a lot on what goes on in Europe and what goes on in Germany and we are proud of continuing to have Germany as one of the leaders in the whole field of vision and prevention of blindness. Thank you very much for the great opportunity to be with you here today to celebrate these fantastic 150 years of your history. Thank you.

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