PAFP MIDYEAR CONVENTION 2012

Welcoming Smiles from the City of Love

All roads lead to Iloilo City on September 6 to 8, 2012 as the Iloilo Chapter of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians proudly hosts this year's 19th Midyear Convention.  This year's theme: "Family Medicine:  Upholding the Family at the Forefront of Medical Care"  focuses on the family physician's main clients who will benefit from holistic health care.  The city, exuding old and new world charms and sights, shall greet guests from all over the country.  The Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention

Center will be the center of knowledge and recreation for the delegates.  Activities have been lined up to provide memorable moments during the convention.

Getting to Iloilo is not problem with direct flights a plenty from Manila, Cebu, Davao, Cagayan de Oro and General Santos.  Several fast craft ferries  also service the Bacolod to Iloilo route.

PAFP has prepared a balanced set of scientific topics for the simultaneous symposia which they believe could benefit the participants in this convention.

To know more
About Iloilo (CLICK HERE) 
About Dinagyang Festival (CLICK HERE)
About Iloilo FOOD Tourism (CLICK HERE)
About TOUR Packages (CLICK HERE)

For more INFORMATION regarding the PAFP Convention Tours (CLICK HERE)

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ABOUT ILOILO CITY

The City of Love- Iloilo City

The City of Iloilo (Filipino: Lungsod ng Iloilo, Hiligaynon: Syudad sang Iloilo or Dakbanwa sang Iloilo) is a highly urbanized city in the Philippines and the capital city of Iloilo. It is the regional center of the Western Visayas, as well as the center of the Iloilo-Guimaras Metropolitan Area.

Iloilo city is bordered by the towns of Oton in the west, Pavia in the north, Leganes in the northeast and the Iloilo Strait in its eastern and southern coastline. The city was a conglomeration of former towns, which are now the geographical districts, composing of: Jaro, Molo, La Paz, Mandurriao, Villa Arevalo, and Iloilo City Proper.

The history of Iloilo City dates back to the Spanish colonial period, starting out as a small and incoherent grouping of fishermen's hamlets from the Iloilo River by a large swamp which after 1855 became the second most important port of call in the colony due to transhipment of sugar products from the neighboring Negros Island. It was later given the honorific title of "La Muy Noble Ciudad" (English: The Most Noble City) by the Queen Regent of Spain . At the turn of the 20th century, Iloilo City was second to the primate city of Manila, with stores along Calle Real selling luxury products from all over the world, an agricultural experimental station established at La Paz in 1888, a school of Arts and Trades which opened in 1891, and a telephone network system operating in 1894.[6]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloilo_City