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Quezon City - Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU) Medical Students were invited to join the committees for the upcoming anniversary to be held in Aloha Hotel next month. Board Members Dr Al-Radjid Jamiri, Dr. Zhamir Umag and Dr Naheeda Mustofa together with OLFU medical students Madz Vincent Ibrahim, Scherazade Ibno, and Shameem Jailani tackled discussions on IMAN's beginnings, reactivation, and future plans to help medical institutions receive appropriate information on Islamic practices (ie patient's burial, hijab concerns) to assist hospital policies and address needs of muslim patients at an international level. Invited guest speakers are Cong. Bai Sandra Sema, AMIN's Cong. Djalia Hataman, NCMF Sec Yasmin Busran-Lao, Atty Edilwasif Baddiri, and DOH ARMM Sec Dr Kadil Sinolinding. Scientific sessions will cover Surgical Cancer and Nutrition, Renal Failure and Dawah. IMAN will also recognize Atty Rasol Mitmug Jr's role as pioneer volunteer legal adviser during t...

Members of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Medical Association of the Philippines (IMAN) met with a number of Muslim Medical students in University of the Philippines Manila last September 28, 2014. Aside from introducing the organization to the new breeds of future physicians, IMAN also officially invited the students to attend the 7 th   Anniversary and General Assembly of IMAN to be held in November this year. The students were encouraged to actively participate in the development of this growing network of professionals in the medical field and future physicians as well. Suggestions and inputs from the students were also heard and more plans on various activities that the organization can possibly do were also proposed. The short dinner meeting ended with a new hope of strengthening the bonds among Muslim doctors from different fields of expertise, different places of origins, and different cultural backgrounds but united with a single ideology and aspiration to bette...

Join us in this once in a lifetime gathering and Dinner Banquet of Muslim Physician Consultants, Fellows, Residents, and Medical Students of IMAN. REGISTRATION FEES MDs : P1200 Med Students: P700 (Includes Annual Membership Fee and Conference Registration) RSVP 0917.592.9408 Email imanphil07@gmail.com

By Dr. Naheeda Dimacisil-Mustofa Alhamdulillah, despite each of the members' busy schedules as physicians and specialists, summer conventions will always be a wonderful avenue for reconnecting with Muslim doctors especially in the South. Dr Mohammed Abedin, a budding Cardiologist at Amai Pakpak Hospital in Lanao has recently expressed much willingness to serve back his community even through small educational activities such as Lay Fora on cardiovascular diseases. With due collaboration, inshaAllah,  IMAN anticipates to join forces in carrying out this Lanao activity. Dr Abedin who is also a Fellow of the Philippine College of Physicians recently completed his subspecialty training in Makati Medical Center. Subspecialists in Mindanao and the Bangsamoro areas are still lacking, with some areas even depending on well-rounded generalists alone. Meanwhile, one of the first Pulmonologists in Cotabato, Dr Bai Naida Sinsuat, who also heads the ICU management in Cotabato Regional...

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim (In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful) Filipinos, whether Muslims or non-Muslims, were not unaware of the known situation of unrest in Mindanao for decades. As one of those who have experienced seeing fireballs from canyons, attending to evacuees who have lived with their endless hopelessness, and shaking grounds during the Pikit war in Cotabato and Sulu, memories can never fade and sometimes even haunt the already peaceful situation you live in at present. But this experience would just be a drop of sweat to those who have fought in War with bullets on their faces and bleeding wounds ignored with the task to defend their rights, families, and God. Tears, words, prayers may never be enough to forget the pangs of painful torment, distrust, discrimination, belittling,  misjudgements resulting from plain misunderstandings- religious or personal issues. Photos of pregnant women and children dying, husbands unarmed and innocent. But A...