ADCOD

On 2nd-6th September 2019 the institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (IOEM) had a chance to visit and made a conference with the top person in the Ministry of Health in Lao PDR. This was one of the resolutions of our last (7th) ADCOD meeting in Bangkok. We have a chance to contact Dr. Panom PHONGMANY, Deputy Director General of Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion who attended our 7th ADCOD meeting. He was enthusiastic to help us arranged the course " Basic Occupational Medicine and ASEAN Diagnostic Criteria for Occupational Disease" . After discussing with him we agreed to arrange the 4 days course on this in the conference room of the Department in Ministry of Health, Lao PDR. He arrange doctors in the Department and in the Ministry, the hospitals, University and big men in Ministry of Labor for 50 person. We were also honored by the Director General of Department, Dr. Bounpheng Philavong who gave an opening speech which cover all essential meaning of our ADCOD. This mean that he concerned in our arrangement of this conference. This is our big success about the ADCOD. We also hope to expand the ADCOD conference to other countries in ASEAN in the future.