+ Issue Date : 06/11/2006
+ Classification : Postage Stamp
+ Emission : Special
+ Designer : Dr T. P. Baskaran
+ Printer : Percetakan Keselamatan Nasional Sdn Bhd
+ Printing : Lithography
+ Paper : Phosphorized / Phospor Coated
+ Watermark : SPM
+ Perforations : 12½
+ Separations : Normal Perforations
+ Gum Type : Gum
+ Shape : Rectangular
+ Orientation : Horizontal
The
International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, usually just FIGO ("fee'go") as the acronym of its French name
Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique, is a worldwide NGO organisation representing obstetricians andgynaecologists in over one hundred territories. It was founded on 26 July 1954 in Geneva, Switzerland as an organisation representing 42 national societies. Membership is currently composed of 124 professional societies of obstetricians and gynaecologists worldwide. The headquarters of FIGO was initially located at Geneva, Switzerland. The FIGO Secretariat is located at London.
FIGO World Congress
Every three years since FIGO's founding in 1954, thousands of gynecologists and obstetricians gather in one city to spend a week analysing and discussing new medical discoveries and looking at problems and issues that can be addressed by the application of low-cost techniques.
The site for the World Congress rotates between the Africa-Eastern Mediterranean, Asia-Oceania, Europe, Latin America and North America regions of FIGO. The site is selected six years in advance by a majority vote at the General Assembly.
Designer
Dr T P Baskaran is a senior consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist and the head of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit in the Hospital Kuala Lumpur. He is an Honorary Lecturer in the National University of Malaysia. His areas of special interest include multiple pregnancy, perinatal pathology, fetal MRI and medical disorders in pregnancy. Since 2006, he has been the President of Malaysian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine. He is also a past President of the Perinatal Society of Malaysia.
