7th Perak Mental Health Convention

The 7th Perak Mental Health Convention was held recently at Impiana Casuarina Hotel. A hotel with a 4-star rating, Impiana Casuarina Hotel is a premier hotel centrally located in Ipoh.




Unlike the Johor Mental Health Convention that I went few months back (please refer here), most of the delegates came from my hospital. There were none of my ex coursemates around this time. This convention was launched by our Sultan and accompanied by our beloved Perak Menteri Besar, Nizar (this was the first time I saw him in real person)

Note our Sultan (in the middle yellow chair) and our MB seated next to him. Our hospital director was giving the opening speech.

Since accommodation and breakfast was only provided to those coming from other states, I have no chance of doing a review about that. The convention hall inside Casuarina was quite small and it was a little cramped as almost all the seats was occupied by the delegates. There were also no bottles of drinking water provided to the delegates (some sort of cost saving?). The lunch was also typical Malay dishes and nothing special.

Performances at the dinner

The dinner was a halal Chinese fare and the food was surprisingly good. One of the organizing committee member told us that it costs RM 525 per table which is quite reasonable. It certainly beats the dinner I recently had at a top hotel nearby. Then, there were many entertaining and funny shows for us such as dance and singing performed by our hospital staff and charity society.

Sigh..have to back to work on Monday :(