FIRST INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONFERENCE OF COUNTRIES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN ON REHABILITATION THERAPIES ORGANISED BY THE ACCADEMIA INTERNAZIONALE MELITENSE IN FORT ST. ANGELO – MALTA – UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF THE GRAND MASTER OF THE ORDER OF MALTA AND OF THE PRESIDENT OF MALTA

On the international political plane, the word "peace" is perhaps the most widely used. For the Sovereign Military Order of Malta it must be supported and promoted by joint actions. It is for this reason that, on the initiative of the Order's Grand Chancellor, Amb. Carlo Marullo di Condojanni, Rector of the International Academy, a scientific conference was held in Fort St. Angelo, Malta, on 11 and 12 December next. Doctors and experts of international renown from the Mediterranean area will be speaking at the conference, coordinated by Prof. Salvatore Giaquinto and organised by the Order of Malta within the framework of the multidisciplinary activities of the Academy directed by Prof. Paolo Caucci von Saucken. Participants in the medical conference, the theme of which is "Rehabilitation without Frontiers", from Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia will cooperate in drafting joint scientific programmes in which the Mediterranean Window of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) will also be present.

In line with the humanitarian and hospitaller activity of the Order of Malta, in the vanguard of European countries in treating paraplegics and hemiplegics in its own health structures, the most advanced research into rehabilitation was studied and compared during the conference. Present and future rehabilitation strategies, joint projects for enhancing the value of the human being, scientific experiences of the different medical approaches and those of the different religious and socio-political areas will all be on the agenda.

The development of scientific progress in the service of the sick, the treatment of the sick to relieve their suffering and hospital care in the respect of the dignity of the person were the pillars of this conference, to help demolish political and cultural barriers, to foster peace and fraternity and to programme a more extensive and efficient humanitarian and medical action.

The special position of Malta and the traditional and consolidated experience of the Order in the hospitaller and health world can prove to be a symbolic but effective communications bridge for exchanging experiences - and not only scientific - between the countries of the Mediterranean area, backed by their respective academic and industrial worlds and great medical tradition and culture. Hence the establishment of a permanent centre in Fort St. Angelo, part of the Order of Malta's programmes, for studies and research and where experts can exchange information and receive hospitality.

The conference was opened, in the presence of the Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Fra' Andrew Bertie, and the President of Malta, Guido de Marco, with the welcome addresses of the Prime Minister of Malta, Edward Fenech Adami, and of the Grand Chancellor of the Order, Amb. Count Carlo Marullo di Condojanni, Rector of the International Academy. Roger Ellul-Micallef, Rector of the University of Malta, submitted a paper during the conference. Speakers in the sessions, coordinated by Prof. Salvatore Giaquinto, Head Physician of the S. Raffaele Tosinvest Nursing Home, will be: Mohammed A.R. El-Abd for Egypt, Khalil Abadi for Jordan, Xanti Michail and Nicholas Christodoulou for Greece, Haim Ring for Israel, Khaled El Makhtar for the Lebanon, and Jorge Lains for Portugal.

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