FOCUS Fibromyalgie Belgique

Nadine Chard’homme – President
Annie Pirmez – Vice-president
Chantal De Glas – Secretary–treasurer
Agnès Miccoli, Annie Michaux, Marie-Hélène Lejeune et Freddy Vantomme – Administrators

First statutes: 19 March 1998
Founding members still active: Dr Masquelier and Lydie Vanroose

Initial mission: Helping fibromyalgia patients at a time when fibromyalgia was unknown to most and not recognised.

• guiding people with fibromyalgia, providing them with moral support and social orientation
• help and inform their family and the professional and socio-cultural environment
• participate in the dissemination of information concerning fibromyalgia
• promote any action to improve the autonomy of the fibromyalgia patient
• educate the patient to facilitate their integration into the world of disability and into society
• promote networking on all issues related to fibromyalgia
• establish contacts, exchanges and partnerships with Belgian and foreign associations
• sensitize the medical profession and public institutions concerned with health problems