Minutes of the board meeting Feb 2024

CCMA February 17, 2024 Board Meeting Minutes

 

Attendees:

Dr. Nagi Ross

Dr. Yasser Botros

Dr. Yousry Soliman

Dr. Ashraf Ghali

Dr. Michael Mohareb

 

1. Prior meeting minutes approved.

 

2. Discussed CRA requirement that board members be “at arm’s length” from each other. Clarified that this is the case as we have no common financial interests between board members. This should be readily apparent from the information provided to CRA up to this point. Can further clarify at their discretion.

 

3. Discussed Board structure and elections including previous meeting’s suggestions and requirement to submit to CRA our current plans. Given the COVID pandemic impaired ability to meet and delayed Board activities over a 2-3yr period, the vote from those present at today’s meeting was:

-delay Board election for another 2yrs at which point every year, we will have 2 of the 7 poisitions up for reelection resulting in terms that run 3-4yrs with 50% Board membership turning over every 3yrs.

-reviewed current Board positions:

Chair – Father Angelos Saad

President – Father John Botrous

Treasurer – Dr. Nagi Ross

Chief Operating Officer – Dr Nagi Ross

Secretary – Dr Michael Mohareb

Vice President – Dr. Yasser Botros

Vice President – Dr. Hani Sawires

Vice President - Dr. Ashraf Ghali

 

4. Discussed request by His Grace Bishop Joseph’s service in sub-Saharan Africa for medical mission, specifically to Botswana. Currently, we do not have members available for a trip in the coming 6-12mos but will advertise it to the group en large as an opportunity for a solo or small group exploratory mission first. Will revisit this service later next year.

 

5. Reviewed the overview of the financial statement for 2023 indicating a modest surplus from 2023 donations. Also, reviewed expenses of the group for hospitals we have traveled to and worked at while group members pay for their own travel/accommodations.

 

6. Reviewed relationship with the Canadian Coptic Physicians Group based in Oakville which liaises with Raga’a Hospital in Egypt for assisting with donations primarily for kidney and liver transplant operations. Reviewed that given prior history in Egypt of sub-ethical organ donation practices, that our group would draft a letter for due diligence to help confirm that these donations are performed as per WHO standards such as the Declaration of Istanbul (which is available online). We will review the letter amongst the group before submitting, but for the meantime, ongoing donation support would continue.

Mission no 13 to Egypt

We are pleased to confirm that our 13th mission trip to Egypt in May/June this year , is in its final steps of preparation.

Sites to be visited:

Anba Takla Alexandria

27, 28&29th

Al Hyat Hospital Cairo May 30&31st

Al adra om el noor, Cairo May 30th &31st

Menouf ” Harmal”H

June3rd-5th

Gaza visit”contingency” security situation

We still welcome health care professionals of all specialties to join

Particularly ;

Anaesthetists

ENT

Nurses

Dentists

Family medicine

May the lord help our cause

Conclusion of the eleventh mission trip to Egypt

We are delighted to conclude our 11th mission trip since 2017 , with great success and outcome.

With 145 General surgery, Gynaecology, ENT procedures and three open heart surgeries at Anba Takla cardiac centre in Alexandria , we achieved a lot of service along with numerous medical consultation from Psychiatry, Rheumatology and Pediatric.

We like to thank again every and each one participants , volunteers and donors for the great effort and heart of service shown by all.

We will arrange for another such trip in May 2024 to Egypt , the exact dates will be determined soon.

We also invite people interested to join into a similar trip to Malawi / Botswana sometime in the spring of 2024 .

Please for those interested to join such a mission post your name directly to Dr Ihab Louis, Nervana Melika or to myself so as to finalize such a first trip to the deep African continent under the see of His grace Bishop Joseph of South Africa .

May the lord bless you all and accept all your giving.

Minutes of Board meeting

ССМА BOARD MEETING August 13, 2023

PRESENT

Father Angelos Saad

Dr Nagi Ross

Dr. Yousry Soliman

Dr. Ashraf Ghali

Dr. Michael Mohareb

  1. Briefly reviewed prior meeting and approved (specifically requests for specific donations to specific hospitals/services).

  2. Discussed importance of Board Member commitment and resolved to

  1. meet in person every 2-3 mos

  2. change 50% of the Board every 3yrs

  3. review Board membership and change status if needed for missing Board meetings (eg 3 consecutive meetings)

  1. Reviewed the importance of encouraging younger physicians and trainess to join both the organisation and the Board

  2. Reviewed frequency and number going to missions. Affirmed going for specific durations and services for specific hospitals more frequently rather than for longer with more members less frequently.

  3. Reviewed plans for upcoming mission trips to Egypt in Sept and Nov.

  4. Discussed in the future being open to other locations such as Namibia through the Coptic Church's service there. For now, will reevaluate for a commitment later in time (eg 2024 or 2025).

  5. Reviewed the financial status of the organisation and donations from members. Agreed reasonably on track for this year, but important to encourage donations.

Upcoming mission in 2023

Upcoming missions in the year 2023

September 2023 : Anba Takla Alexandria and cardiac centreAnba Barsoum Helwan

November 5-18th 4 sites

Al Germanic Hospital Aswan

Beni Mazar” Misr El Mahaba”

Anna Barsoum Helwan

Anba Takla and Cardiac centre Alexandria

Dear all , with the conclusion of last ten medical missions, We look forward to our next mission in November 5-18th , locations will be

As last November , with Aswan, Beni Mazar, Cairo and Alexandria

Since we vowed to go forward to do four such missions each year, there will be also another smaller scale one in coming September.

This mission will focus on two sites in Anba Takla , Alexandria and Anba Barsoum in Cairo.

So far Dr Moheb Ibrahim and Dr Michael Mohareb from Canada are leading the cardiac centre mission in Anba Takla, Dr Medhat Mikhaeil OBGYN from the UK in Alexandria and Dr Maged Bekheit OBGYN from BC, Canada in Cairo site; as well as Dr Emil Girgis ANAESTHETIST from the UK.

Dr Sherif Adly Farid contingency his time

Whoever is interested to join please post it over the Whats App group , contact myself or Dr Ihab Louise in Barry Ontario.

All contact numbers can be found over the post.

With all these missions come also expenses in addition to the usual regular running cost which is usually around $ 5-6,000 each month.

Cheers and good luck

Sudan crisis

As all of us know the crisis unfolding in Khartoum , Sudan , we plead will all parties involved to stop the fighting, looting and lack of law and order in this dear neighbour country.

We also plead with all our members and proponents around the globe to help and donate to relief funds established for this purpose

We pray to the lord to have mercy on his people in Sudan and to put a divine hand to stop this civil war ASAP

Tenth mission conclusion

Conclusion of the tenth medical mission

Dear all , with the performance of over 75 procedures and operations in four different surgery specialities, and numerous clinical consultations in Pediatric and orthopaedics, we were delighted to conclude this blessed and successful mission.

We like to give special thanks to our newly joined members, Dr Fawzy Salah Assisstant professor of Surgery in Ain shams  university who gave us great help in Cairo  and Alexandria.

Dr Marco Abood Anaesthesia

Dr Samir Zietoun Orthopedic consultant in the UK

Dr Nageeb Magdy of Helwan  Anaethetist who gave us also badly needed help in time of shortage

And many others who helped us in different ways and shapes

We also feel grateful to Dr Milad william for his excellent help in organization and providing help when it’s badly needed.

To Mr Michael Meleka  who was of great help in the OR and to Mr Max Loslo who escorted the mission in Cairo and Alexandria.

We look forward to our next mission in November 5-18th , locations will be determined and finalized after checking the security situation in South Sudan.

Last word is that we remind all our colleagues that the language in dealing with other staff members wether a nurse, orderly , patients or admin should be strictly professional and follows our Christian ethics.

May trip to Egypt

As we are readying ourselves to do the tenth missio trip to Egypt in early May , we like to remind our honorable members of the services that we provided in the past year 2022

- logistic and cash donations to different parish sites in Al Sharkia , port Said, El Masaraa Helwan , Souhag/Akhmim and many other sites in Cairo “El Tahoona “, El Malak Mikhael ortho clinic in Shoubra , coptic orphans with special needs service also in El Masaraa Helwan , we conducted one if at all the most successful mission trip to five sites last November including Anba Takla cardiac centre in Alexandria , Anba Barsoum El Erian parish run Hospital , El Hayat hospital in Kobri El Kobba , Beni Mazar and El Germania Hospital in Aswan , performed over 150 surgeries in all surgical disciplines and hundreds more of consultations again in different specialities.. we also funded and supported two other evangelical mission trips to Juba in South Sudan , tge list goes on and on , donations to Coptic Christian funds and Anba Abrah charity , we also helped two different members in thier financial hardships when they run afloat with their licensing with the college, all that was only possible through the generous donations of our group.

We like to continue this service to help the brethren of the Lord and the needy in our old country and Sudan and we applaud to your help and continual support through either cash donations, logistics, medicine supplies and personal. professional contributions.

May the lord help and support us in this difficult times.

Salam , peace of the lord be with us all.