European Ostomy Association

6th August 202011th August 2020

ASTOM Russia in times of COVID-19

Activities of the National Association of Ostomy Patients of Russia ASTOM during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic has brought many changes. It has forced us all to find new ways of working, interacting and living. But ASTOM has never stopped its activities within the whole period of lock-down as well as in the post-quarantine period.

Covid-19 has set us unprecedented challenges and disrupted a lot of plans. Thankfully none of the board members and activists have contracted this insidious virus.

29th June 202029th June 2020

Vice-President Message

Maria Hass: I have met Di several times at IOA Congresses, it was always a pleasure to meet her. Also other members of the current EOA EC have met her during congresses. Di was a very kind and polite person but also very clear in what she said. She was so lively and she was deeply interested in the wellbeing of ostomates all over the world.

EOA EC is very sorry about her death and the loss for the ostomates’ community.

Link: Dielwen E. Bracken

18th June 202018th June 2020

Bosnia and Herzegovina in the time of Covid-19

Dragan Trivun is the founder and president of the association for people with a performed stoma. He also has an ileostomy for 26 years (he was operated in 1994). The ILCO-STOMA RS association is the only association in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The state of emergency due to covid-19 didn’t prevent him from visiting new members. For family members help was necessary because the visit was forbidden from hospital, and they didn’t receive the necessary instructions and recommendations.

14th June 202014th June 2020

Czech ILCO – June 2020

President of EOA invited us to tell him how we spent the last months. I personally underwent an eye surgery in March and thus have enough time to recover.

Since January 2020, the Czech ILCO has a new presidium – three new colleagues were incorporated, young ostomates who are very active and have a lot of bright ideas.

14th June 202014th June 2020

Finilco – Means used for copying with the COVID-19 crisis

Finnilcos actions and work methods in the middle of corona – crisis:

We closed down all face to face activities and meetings in local chapters and nationally (immidiately in March)
The courses and training for stoma accomodation were cancelled and transformed to later (Some know this kind of activity as camps)
The formal meetings (for house of delegates?) in Finnilco and local chapters were moved to autumn. (The government did some changes in laws to allow this in all associations)
The visits of supportpersons in hospitals and elderly care were forbidden

4th June 20204th June 2020

President Message

The start of the – hopefully – end of COVID19

Dear friends.

It has been far more pleasureable to think about writing this message than the last one from March this year. Now that most countries are longing for the end of this epidemic that has more or less paralyzed our societies we need to take a deep breath and analyze the situation that we are in. We have all lost a few months of invaluable work and connections with our members have been somewhat strange. The computer and web have been growing in this context for the past years but suddenly they take over almost completely. No meetings and no close personal conversations have been possible in the past months. Hopefully all of us have been able to rise up to those challenges and provide service and consultations as close to requirements as possible.

27th May 202027th May 2020

Interview with Snežana S. Milojevic – Ilco Serbia

At the age of 21, when I was a student at the Belgrade Faculty of Economics, I developed symptoms of ulcerative colitis, such as blood in the stool, disturbed bowel movements, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and a weak appetite. I lost weight, became weak, had a fever… No one in my family has ever had similar symptoms. When I asked the doctor what the cause of the disease was, I was told, “It is anxiety-based“ I lived a relaxed life, became a graduate student in economics, I was member of the folklore dance troupe, always always took care of my diet, I didnt smoke…

5th May 2020

Nutrition tips

Here you can find usefull tips for eating when you have stoma — the article by Renata Batas, an Enterostomal Therapist at Community Health Centre Ljubljana in Slovenia: Healthy Eating with Stoma.

30th April 202030th April 2020

Actions dans le cadre de la Journée Nationale de la Stomie

1. Visioconférence ‘Osons parler Stomie’ Elle aura lieu lundi 4 mai après midi via la plateforme ZOOM et sera animée par : Dr Laury Beaubrun-Diant, Docteur en Psychologie de la Santé, Chercheur Centre CERPPS Toulouse Martine Pagès infirmière stomathérapeute CHU Nîmes Chantal Vaurs, Patiente expert, Secrétaire de l’Union et Présidente de l’IAS Nord Dauphiné Myriam Teyssié, Patiente expert, Présidente de l’Union des Stomisés du Grand Sud (modératrice).

10th March 202010th March 2020

President Message

EOA Conference 2020 / 2021 in Italy

Dear friends.

Do you remember the title from the president‘s message of January last? It was: „Please be there.“ Now it is very clear that we can‘t be in Garda in April as we had planned and prepared. The virus that has been plaguing the world has made it inevitable to postpone the EOA conference in Garda. That is a joint decision of the EOA-EC and FAIS. The vote of members has decided that the EOA conference will take place in April next year. The result was very clear, 19 out of 27 that voted decided on that.