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Letter no. 5 to Tetros Ghebreyesus Director of WHO from Audur Gudjonsdottir Chairman ISCI.
Your Excellency,The main purpose of this letter is to ask you, the world’s most powerful person in healthcare matters, to officially proclaim to the world that a cure for paralysis must be found and to...

2022: The Foreign Minister of Iceland Thordis Kolbrun Gylfadottir 2022
2022 The Foreign Minister of Iceland Thordis Kolbrun Gylfadottir at a meeting with Dr. Tetros Ghebreyesus Managing Director WHO about spinal cord injury and the Global Action plan on Epilepsy and...
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In 2014, Iceland Chaired the Nordic Council of Ministers.
At the same time, the ISCI and the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs held a conference with Nordic and other experts on spinal cord injuries. The role of the experts was to formulate plans for the Council of Ministers on the manner in which to implement the decision of the Council to make spinal cord injury treatment a priority within the Nordic Council. Report of the Icelandic Ministry of Health about the issue is available in the Ministry.
Founder and chairman of ISCI
Auður Guðjónsdóttir, Founder and chairman of Institue of Spinal Cord Injury Iceland
The Institut of Spinal Cord Injury (ISCI) was founded on 11 December 2007 at the initative of an Icelandic mother, Auður Guðjónsdóttir, who has for twenty years campaigned strongly for an Icelandic led international effort to improve spinal cord injury (SCI) treatment. Her SCI advocacy efforts and perseverance in the face of adversity have drawn widespread attention. The Icelandic government, businesses and individuals have joined forces to launch ISCI in support of her cause.
International Database on SCI
The database on innovations in treatment of spinal cord injury is now available in 5 languages:
English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian
English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian