Health director-general recognised for lecture on thyroid surgery


Dr Noor Hisham (left) receiving a commemorative plaque from Prof Dr Andrew Hill for his lecture on thyroid surgery titled ‘Difficult Thyroid Surgery - Primum Non Nocere’.

HEALTH Ministry director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has been honoured for delivering a lecture at the prestigious International Society of Surgery (ISS), 48th World Congress of Surgery 2019, in Krakow, Poland.

Dr Noor Hisham, who is also the society’s Global Surgery Committee chair, spoke on thyroid surgery titled “Difficult Thyroid Surgery – Primum Non Nocere”.

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