News Archive

We would like to congratulate our rehabilitation consultant physician, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lydia Abdul Latif who was recently appointed as head for the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, effective February 17th, 2016 and Mdm. Mariam Nasir as the Chief Nursing Officer effective March 1st, 2016.

Congratulations once again! May this appointment will further improve our quality of service in respective fields and contribute to lead UMMC in achieving its vision and mission as well as sustaining UMMC as the leader in the medical education.

UMMC launched its state-of-the-art facility today. The launched was officiated by the Minister of Higher Education, The Honorable Dato'''' Seri Idris Jusoh. The launched marked UMMC as the one and only organization in Malaysia that offers a two room solution for patients. This hi-tech facility enables the operation room to be used by other patients for MRI and CT Scans while a concurrent operation is in process. This technology also enables the patient on going the operation procedure to be scanned on site without transferring the patient. UMMC-CIGMIT is also one of the Public-Private Partnership Project under the Government of Malaysia.

The Closing ceremony for the students of the College of Health Sciences was held today in University Malaya.

The 2016 World Parkinson Day was celebrated today in UMMC. The event was officiated by the Director of UMMC. Also present at the event were the Dean for the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Madya Dr. Nazirah Hasnan (Clinical) and YBhg. Dato'' Tan Ching Nam, the President of the Parkinson Disease Association.

UMMC was chosen by PDRM for their charity visit in conjunction with the 209 Police Day. The visit was held at the Pedantic Oncology Ward (Ward 5PA) lead by Persatuan Keluarga Polis (PERKEP). Thank you Datuk Amar Singh and delegates on the visit and gifts presented to our patients. PDRM also donated 3 wheelchairs for the benefit of our patients. May this move initiates more visits and donations by other organizations for the benefit of our patients

The Department of Sports Medicine under Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd. Nahar Azmi Mohamed and team had successfully initiated the World Physical Activity Day 2016 Celebration. This program under Dr. Samihah Abdul Karim''''s committee had left good feedbacks from our staffs.

A 2.5 km walkathon was joined by almost 200 staffs. The walkathon was officiated by our Deputy Director (Management), Mr. Iskandar Ahmad. This event was also joined by our Deputy Director (Professional) Ms. Harbans Kaur.

Thank you to our main sponsors that ensures this event was a success.

Congratulations to the Sports Medicine Department in organising such an event!

MARCH 31st, 2016