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Pantai Women Health Summit 2014

Gomez (third from right), Safurah (fourth from right) and Rafidah (fifth from right) with the cheque recipient representatives at Pullman Hotel on Oct 14, 2014.

14 Oktober 2014, KUALA LUMPUR: One in 31 women in Malaysia are at risk of contracting breast cancer.

Speaking at the Second Women's Health Summit 2014 on Tuesday, organising chairman Dr Patricia Gomez said the incidence of cancer in the country was increasing at an alarming rate from 32,000 new cases in 2008 to 37,000 in 2012 with the number expected to go up to 56,932 by 2025 if no action is taken.

"With over three million women battling breast cancer today worldwide, it is worrying. If the disease is diagnosed, the chances of survival is good."

In her 20 years of practising and attending to hundreds of patients, she said there was still a need for continuous awareness of the disease.

National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM) principle patron Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz said women should understand their own body and take all measures to improve their well-being.

"While the government is committed to support the agenda of women's health as well as their active representation on corporate boards, Malaysian women must do their part by taking their health seriously," she said.

This year, Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur donated RM40,00 in total (RM10,000 each) in the form of breast prostheses for post-mastectomy patients to National Cancer Society (NCSM), Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malaysia (SCWA), Persatuan Kanser Network Selangor & Federal Territories (KanWork) and NCD Alliance Malaysia.

These NGOs provide emotional, practical and information support to those diagnosed with cancer, their families and friends through its cancer care programmes and services nationwide.

Also present was Ministry of Health family health development division director Puan Dr Safurah Jaafar.

 

Source

‘Breast cancer risk hits one in 31 Malaysian women’
Posted on 14 October 2014 - 09:39pm
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1199166

Congratulations to our special pioneer member

Congratulations to our special pioneer member. 

Her write up as finalist for WOMEN EXCELLENCE award gets special nominee. 

MS SHARIFAH MARIA  ALFAH, A  PROFILE

Managing Director of Usulinc Sdn Bhd and Owner of Foxhill Langkawi Kampung & Homestay Wellness Resort.

Sharifah Maria Alfah is presently Managing Director of Usulinc Sdn. Bhd., managing Foxhill Langkawi Kampung & Homestay Wellness Resort. Prior to embarking on a career change and relocating to Langkawi, Maria was a Senior Management Consultant & Executive Coach bringing with her over 30 years of People Management experience. Her last corporate assignment in Kuala Lumpur was as Trainer/Facilitator for IBM Leadership Program. With legal background and a Masters in Management from Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Manila, she started her career in early 1980s in the field of Human Resource Management & Development (then known as Personnel Management).

She was amongst the veteran HR practitioners who shaped the HR community in Malaysia and was one of the contributors for early growth of the Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management (MIHRM). She is now a Fellow of the Institute. Her contributions to the development of HR management covers a span of organizations, as  Head of HR Divisions, including Hewlett Packard & Seagate Technology (Electronics), Bank Negara Malaysia (Banking) ,ING (then Aetna Universal, – Insurance) and Ranhill Bhd ( Oil & Gas & Constructions). As strategic and management consultant, she had helped organizations   like Takaful& Kurnia (Insurance), Golden Hope (Palm Oil ). As Executive Coach internally and as a Consultant, her aim was to guide her clients in personal life/career strategic planning and self -behavioral modification and improvement. These will cause changes and result in renewed commitments and contributions for the organizations.

After a wake-up call through breast cancer, she made the decision in late 2008 to have a career and life change, to find a more peaceful environment, yet contributing to the Nation’s growth and the enhancement of people relationship. Her experiences are her strength and through some research and strategic planning, she decided to join the growing Tourism and Hospitality Industry. She found a niche that was somehow underdeveloped, that is to provide international guests with a unique experience of the Malaysian culture, understanding of the Malaysian heritage and to touch them with Malaysian warmth and true hospitality.

Purchasing Foxhill from a Dutch couple mid-2009, Maria was able to embark on a second entrepreneurial path in Tourism & Hospitality. She received early recognition of achievement from TripAdvisor. Through guests’ written feedbacks, Foxhill was awarded the Certificate of Excellence for the Year 2012 and 2013. The testimonies became true “free” advertisements that open the door to international bookings and Maria’s measure of personal success is the creation of life long global relationships and returning guests.

Following the dual paths, she continues to provide some counseling, coaching and training (facilitation) when opportunities arose.

Thankful to be where she is, Maria continues to support and befriend other cancer patients and “thrivers” through the KanWork organization, and the handicapped through LICOF (Langkawi Inclusive Community Outreach Foundation) to help them be thriving members society.

“If we think negative thoughts and poverty, we become a magnet that attracts poverty. If we deliberately think of abundance, we will attract abundance and when we think positive, happy thoughts, we attract like-minded, positive, happy people into our lives” – Law of Attraction.