Wilson Tan for MAKNA Founder's Run – A Dream | A Reality | A Legacy – Video

Posted: Published on February 26th, 2013

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Wilson Tan for MAKNA Founder #39;s Run - A Dream | A Reality | A Legacy
To register for the run, kindly visit:- http://www.themarathonshop.com.my ABOUT MAKNA MAKNA (Majlis Kanser Nasional / National Cancer Council) was founded by Dato #39;Mohd Farid Ariffin. MAKNA was officially launched on 30 March 1995 was registered as a society on 10 November 1994. MAKNA is a not-for-profit social enterprise mainly tasked to pool and utilise every effort, expertise and financial aid from every faction of society, and to fight cancer and reduce the related pain, suffering and morbidity that cancer patients and their families often experience. THE FOUNDER Dato #39; Mohd Farid Arifin has vast management, organisational and entrepreneurship experience , having served as a teacher, lecturer and lawyer and later as Deputy Finance Minister (1987 -- 1989) and Deputy Health Minister (1989 -- 1995). MAKNA was set up from his own family experience, and today it is a home-grown organisation fully focused on cancer. His teenage son Farul Rafiq was 17 when diagnosed with leukemia (blood cancer) in 1992. Farul was flown to London, England (Hammersmith Hospital) for treatment. There, he underwent a regimented treatment which included an autologous bone marrow transplant, which was not yet available in Malaysia. A few years into battling the diseases, he was finally certified cancer-free. While recuperating at the hospital in London, Dato #39; Mohd Farid #39;s family made a promise that on their return to Malaysia, they would set up a cancer organisation aimed to help those from lower income ...

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