KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 (Bernama) -- Malaysian doctor Datuk Dr N. Arumugam has made the country proud by being elected as president (elect) of the World Medical Association (WMA).
Dr Arumugam, who is the immediate past-president of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), defeated nominees from Hungary and Belgium over two rounds of close voting by delegates from the national medical associations during the WMA's General Assembly in Santiago, Chile, recently.
"I feel this is indeed a great honour for Malaysia on the world medical stage," MMA President Datuk Dr Teoh Siang Chin said in a statement Monday.
Dr Teoh said Dr Arumugam would assume the post of president-elect immediately and would be installed at the WMA General Assembly in South Africa next year.
Dr Arumugam would hold the post for a year and would lead the WMA delegation to the annual World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting in Geneva, he added.
Formed 1948, the WMA represents about five million physicians from more than 90 countries.
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