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news from<br />
committee and the Society are doing its best to cater for the<br />
several hundred participants.<br />
Following the success at the 1 st Euro-Mediterranean<br />
Congress held in Malta in <strong>2006</strong>, preparations are well underway<br />
for the 7th Central European Symposium to be held in Erfurt,<br />
Germany this coming September. Hopefully we will have about<br />
20 delegates representing Hungary this year.<br />
Csaba Van Dulek<br />
Society of Hungarian Radiographers<br />
Switzerland<br />
The Swiss society of Radiological<br />
Technologists has seen a lot of<br />
changes this last year.<br />
In November 2005 it was necessary<br />
to organise an urgent assembly<br />
to elect new board members. The<br />
reason for this was that two members resigned, leaving only<br />
two members on the board, which is not deemed a functional<br />
board by our Statutes. Six new board members were elected,<br />
who also turned out to be very competent in their tasks. Please<br />
visit our website to see what we look like!<br />
We have reorganised our departments/committees in order<br />
to work together in groups of two to three, which will<br />
enable us to share our competences. We are also busy getting<br />
in touch with the official of the BAG (Bundesampt für Gesundheitswesen),<br />
who is responsible for radioprotection in the<br />
medical field in Switzerland.<br />
Our Education committee is working on a new Professional<br />
Profile and a National Curriculum.<br />
From 1 to 3 June <strong>2006</strong> we had our last annual assembly<br />
as an old-fashioned structure, since our members voted for a<br />
new form of organisation of Radiological Technologists. This<br />
means that we will no longer be Regions with Regional committees,<br />
but Sections with delegates. Sections will be more independent<br />
and sufficient. We will continue to have our annual<br />
congress with the Radiologists in June and then we will have<br />
a separate delegate assembly at the beginning of the year.<br />
We are looking forward to a very busy semester, assisting<br />
our Regions to turn into Sections.<br />
Our board is working very closely together with our Central<br />
Secretary Office, who supports us enormously.<br />
On behalf of our society, we would like to congratulate all<br />
newly elected <strong>ISRRT</strong>/ECRRT board members and wish them<br />
a very successful term.<br />
Jolanda Gabriel<br />
obituary<br />
Andrew C.K. Tsui<br />
1927 – <strong>2006</strong><br />
Andrew Tsui started his training in radiography when joined the Hong Kong government Medical<br />
and Health Department at the turn of 1950. After working for a few years in diagnostic<br />
radiography, he was one of the few selected to train in the UK as therapy radiographers and to<br />
start the radiotherapy service in Hong Kong. In 1957, he went again to the Hammersmith Hospital<br />
in the UK to get his fellowship in the then Society of Radiographers. Coming back from training,<br />
Andrew started the School of Radiotherapy in Hong Kong in which was the first teacher.<br />
In early 70’s, together with some colleagues, he started the Hong Kong Radiological Technologist<br />
Association, which is also a founding member of the <strong>ISRRT</strong>. After his early retirement from the<br />
Hong Kong government in 1977, he took up a teaching position in Singapore where he worked for<br />
a year or so before he returned to Hong Kong to start his radiological related business.<br />
Andrew passed away in February this year. He will be missed by many friends in Hong Kong and<br />
around the world and we extend our condolences to his family.<br />
30 <strong>ISRRT</strong> Newsletter
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