The Bali tourism and medical society has seized the opportunity to launch its first International Medical Conference (IMC) on November 10-13, 2023, on the back of the 2023 International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA) Conference on international medical regulation.
The IMARA conference will take place first in Merusaka Nusa Dua from November 6-9, 2023, and more than 600 delegates from around the world are expected to attend.
Taruna Ikrar, chair of the Indonesian Medical Council, explained: “The IAMRA conference is a prestigious regulatory event, and we saw the opportunity to create a sequence event, the IMC, with an expectation that the IAMRA delegates (would be able to) participate too.
“The IMC aims to support Bali’s aspiration of becoming a leading health tourism destination. It will also be an annual event, and help to bridge Bali’s thriving tourism industry and healthcare development.”
The IMC is slated to take place at a convention centre that is currently under construction in the new Sanur Special Economic Zone area. It is owned and organised by Bali Nusantara Sembilan Semesta, a collaboration between Bali Convention Management (Bacoma) and several medical experts like Taruna.
Taruna opined that the IMC would make history as a medical conference that not only discusses regulation, but medicine in general, noting that there were other medical conference dedicated to specific fields such as cardiology and pulmonary diseases.
