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About Us
During 1997 the wound care industry in South Africa took the initiative and brought a group of general and plastic surgeons together to form a new interest group. WHASA was born with the aims of promoting the advancement and education of wound management at all levels of care.
Since then WHASA has joined hands with the Wound Care Society of South Africa to form a new united body for all wound care practitioners. During 2004, formal structures were created to converge the fragmented local wound care fraternity into a cohesive body that would be able to lobby for wound care and its interests in Southern Africa. In December 2004, an Interim Steering Committee was formed to guide the process towards the formation of this formal joint venture.
The 2005 WHASA Inaugural Wound Care Conference was held 14 - 16 September 2005 at Kievits Kroon Country Estate, Pretoria, where the proposed Constitution was accepted. The first unified multi-disciplinary Executive Committee was elected under the leadership of Dr. Frans Cronje.
In May 2008 WHASA held its 2nd International Multidisciplinary Wound Healing Conference at the Indaba conference centre in Fourways. At this conference the new multi-disciplinary EXCO was elected under the leadership of Sr. Liezl Naude with Dr. Gregory Weir as the President-elect. (See the newsletters for more info.)
WHASA also attended the World Union of Wound Healing Societies conference in Toronto, Canada as a supporting society. We also took part in a bid presentation to host the next WUWHS meeting in 2012. WHASA came second to Japan with 29-23 votes, but secured an International meeting to be held in Cape Town 2010 to launch a WUWHS African position document.
The Third Multidisciplinary Wound Healing Conference was held at the 1-on-1 Gateway conference centre in Umhlanga in 2009.
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