WCPT atualização setembro 2018

WCPT E-Update - September 2018     Optamos pelo texto original em inglês para manter a originalidade e a credibilidade da fonte. Use Google Translate se necessário. Boa Leitura

World Physical Therapy Day - thank you! Thank you to all our member organisations and the many individual physical therapists and health care centres who took part in the day and helped make World Physical Therapy Day 2018 a resounding success! We have already received a great number of reports of the activities that took place to mark the day - take a look at how the day was celebrated around the world: www.wcpt.org/wptday18. Thank you to everyone who has submitted their report - if you haven't please email info@wcpt.org with a brief report (max 200 words) and a small selection of photographs.

#worldptday The #WorldPTDay hashtag gathered momentum around the globe generating enormous traffic on social media - on Twitter 7.6 million impressions were made with over 4,500 tweets. The hour long physiotalk tweetchat held on 3rd September for World Physical Therapy Day also achieved a reach of 1.4 million people. For the first time, WCPT published animation videos promoting this year's campaign message - these proved enormously popular with both the English and Spanish versions each achieving a reach of 300,000 people.

Candidates for WCPT President and Vice President announced The candidates for election to the positions of President and Vice President have been announced as follows: Candidates for President Alain Belanger  Emma K. Stokes Candidates for Vice President Michel D. Landry Melissa Locke John Xerri de Caro  The elections will take place at the General Meeting, 8-9 May 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland. Only WCPT member organisations in good standing are able to vote, with each organisation having one vote. View the candidates: www.wcpt.org/gm19/candidates

Preliminary programme announced for WCPT Congress 2019 WCPT is delighted to announce that the preliminary programme for congress has just been published. With all the key sessions included and over 150 speakers confirmed, now is the time to start planning your days in Geneva. Take a look at the daily overviews online or download a pdf of the programme: www.wcpt.org/wcpt2019/programme/preliminary To save up to 35% with the Super Early Bird rate remember to register before the 31st October deadline: www.wcpt.org/wcpt2019/registration

Physical therapy equipment donation This month WCPT has developed an information note to provide guidance for recipients and donors to help find the best possible solution for the donation of physical therapy equipment. In some countries nearly 80% of health care equipment is donated or funded by international donors. But, according to WHO a large proportion (up to 70% in sub-Saharan Africa) of donated equipment lies idle because of a disconnect between recipients and donors around need. WCPT has developed the information note in response to this with input from a range of stakeholders including ADAPT, ICRC and WHO. Find out more: http://bit.ly/2OiJyfj