New Zealand’s annual ophthalmology conference, the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) New Zealand Branch meeting, due to be held in Christchurch from 8-9 May, has been cancelled.
The announcement came hot on the heels of several other optometry and ophthalmology meeting cancellations in New Zealand, Australia and internationally, all hit by national governments’ desire to slow the spread of Covid-19 in their countries.
In a joint statement to delegates, sponsors, speakers and abstract contributors, Dr Logan Robinson, head of the 2020 RANZCO NZ organising committee, and Dr Peter Hadden, president of the RANZCO NZ Branch, said it with much regret that they had decided to cancel the 2020 meeting. “We plan instead to hold next year’s meeting in Christchurch and the one after that in Blenheim.”
Though the organising committee and its events’ organiser, Karen McLean of CML, were still working through all the logistics of the cancellation at the time of going to press, they stressed that all registration fees would be refunded.
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