FLS Teams Celebrate World Osteoporosis Day

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) sincerely thanks all Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) teams worldwide for making this year’s World Osteoporosis Day campaign, “Build, Protect, Strengthen Your Bones for Life,” a success. From hospital information stands and free screening days to blue light-ups and patient clubs, every activity helped raise awareness of bone health and the importance of preventing the next fracture.

If your FLS held a World Osteoporosis Day event that isn’t yet on the global map of events, we encourage you to submit it here!

World Osteoporosis Day events/campaigns by FLS teams in 17 countries
(as recorded to date, apologies to any teams not yet represented):

• Argentina: Sanatorio Las Lomas
• Belgium: AZ Maria Middelares; AZ Sint-Jan Brugge; Vitaz, Sint-Niklaas
• Brazil: Hospital Universitário da UEL, Londrina with the Londrina Municipal Health Secretariat, UEL, and Unopar; Hospital Unimed Bebedouro; Hospital Paranaguá; Rede Mater Dei de Saúde, Belo Horizonte with EMS and SOGIMIG
• China: Beijing Jishuitan Hospital Guizhou Hospital; Beijing Anzhen Hospital Capital Medical University
• Colombia: SES Hospital Universitario de Caldas, Manizales with the Manizales Health Secretariat
• France: Centre Hospitalier Rives de Seine; Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph with AFLAR; Hôpital Cochin, Paris with GRIO; Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
• Italy: ASST-Pini-CTO, Milano; University Hospital Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples with FEDIOS
• Japan: NHO Murayama Medical Center; Japanese Red Cross Hadano Hospital; Do Clinic; Asako Clinic; Hiroshima Prefectural General Rehabilitation Center; Kashiwa City Hospital; Toyooka Orthopaedic Hospital; General Moriya First Hospital; Machida Keisen Hospital; Komaki Hospital, Miyakonojo; Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital; Sanaikai General Hospital, Misato
• Lebanon: American University of Beirut Medical Center with the AUB Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program and the Ministry of Public Health
• Netherlands: Elisabeth TweeSteden Ziekenhuis Tilburg; Ziekenhuisgroep Twent (ZGT); Isala, Meppel with the Osteoporose Vereniging
• New Zealand: Waitematā FLS, North Shore Hospital
• Russian Federation: Krasnoyarsk Regional Hospital; Regional Emergency Hospital n.a. N.V. Solovyev, Yaroslavl; Clinical Medical Surgery Centre of the Omsk Region with RAOP
• Spain: Hospital Universitario de Navarra; Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria, Tenerife; Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid
• Taiwan: En Chu Kong Hospital, New Taipei City
• UK: Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with the Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Ukraine: D. F. Chebotarev Institute of Gerontology, Kyiv
• Vietnam: Hai Phong International General Hospital

Below are a few snapshots from around the world, showcasing the events FLS teams carried out in cooperation with their hospitals, and sometimes with local or patient societies.