Make every breath count.

Breathing is arguably the most recognised action we perform every day to keep ourselves alive. The heart pumps but we don’t feel it. Our kidneys and liver clean our blood, our gut absorbs nutrients and
our brain sends and receives signals. But it’s still our breathing that we readily identify with every moment.

How much care do we give this wonderful organ called our “lungs”? It appears we may be more concerned with our blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol. How many of us know our Forced Vital Capacity or our Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second or our Peak Flow rates?

Maybe it’s time to pay a little more attention. I invite you all to revisit the health and ailments of our lungs at the MTS Annual Congress 2014. It will be held in the UNESCO Heritage City of Melaka.

We promise something for everyone; workshops on basic lung X-rays and CT-scans, smoking cessation, use of inhalers, thoracic ultrasound, a city tour for our family members and a Gala Dinner where we want you to don the most “heritage baju’ you have. Not to forget the two and a half days of scientific updates on asthma, COPD, TB, pneumonia, sleep medicine and more.

So, sign up the registration forms, reserve your Melaka friend’s guestroom and search for that
heritage baju. See you all in historic Melaka on 12th June 2014!

Dr Kauthaman Mahendran Organising Chairman MTS 2014