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78th IMA Central Council Meeting, December 27-28, 2017, Mumbai, Maharashtra

AGENDA - BREPORTING MATTERS

1. Minutes of 137th Ordinary meeting of the Central Council of IMA .............................................................. 212. Minutes of the 217th meeting of the Central Working Committee held at Kolkata on

April 15&16, 2017 and Action Taken thereon .............................................................................................. 213. Minutes of the 218th meeting of the Central Working Committee held at New Delhi on

September 2324, 2017 ................................................................................................................................. 40

Reports by National V ice Presidents of IMA4. Activity report of Dr Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, Senior National V ice President ....................................... 495. Activity report of Dr K Prakasam, National V ice President .............................................................................6. Activity report of Dr Mahendra Choudhury, National V ice President ......................................................... 527. Activity Report of Dr Parmanand Prasad Pal, National V ice President, IMA .................................................

Report by Honorary Secretary General, IMA, Dr R N Tandon8. Glimpses of activities of Team Digital IMA Dr K K Aggarwal, National President, IMA and

Dr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMA ..............................................................Agenda Book No. 89. Minutes of meeting of FOMA, April 6, 2017, New Delhi Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA .................................... 5210. Report of Liaison with other Specialist Organizations (FOMA) Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA ....................... 5411. Minutes of meeting of State Leaders Meet, April 2, 2017, New Delhi Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA ............... 5512. Minutes of meeting of Annual State Leaders Review Meet and IMA National Action Cell meeting,

August 27, 2017, New Delhi Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA ............................................................................... 5813. Report of milestones for Team Digital IMAIMA Teleconferencing ServicesDr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA ...... 6114. IMA Doctor’s Day Awards ............................................................................................................................. 62

Report(s) by Honorary Finance Secretary, Dr V K Monga & Honorary Joint Secretaries, IMA HQs.15. Minutes and Action Taken Report of Meetings of Finance Standing Committee & Building Standing

Committee held at Amritsar on 27122016 Dr V K Monga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA ............... 6316. Minutes of meetings of Finance Standing Committee & Building Standing Committee

held at Kolkata on April 15, 2017 Dr V K Monga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA & Dr. Ashwini Kumar Dalmiya,Hony. Jt. Secy. .............................................................................................. 65

17. Minutes and Action Taken Report of Meetings of Finance Standing Committee & Building StandingCommittee held at Delhi on 2292017 Dr V K Monga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA ....................... 68

18. Report of IMA HQ’s Building at New DelhiDr. Ashwini Kr. Dalmiya, Hony. Jt. Secy, Delhi .......................... 7219. Report of IMA HQ’s Building at KolkattaDr. Santosh Kumar Mandal,Hony. Jt. Secy, Kolkata .................... 7320. Report of H.R. activitiesDr. Anil Goyal,Hony. Jt. Secy. ................................................................................. 75

Report(s) of Membership Section21. Report on Formation/Revival/Suspension/Merger/Change in name of Local Branches

Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Honorary Joint Secretary. .......................................................................................... 7622. Position of HFC and Membership Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Honorary Joint Secretary .................................. 77

Reports by various wings of IMA23. Report of JIMA Dr Kakoli Sen, Honorary Secretary, JIMA .......................................................................... 1724. Report of IMA College of General Practitioners Dr R Gunasekaran, Honorary Secretary ...................... 7825. Report of IMA Academy of Medical Specialties Dr. V S Rao, Honorary Secretary ................................... 7926. Report of IMA Dr. AKN Sinha Institute of Medical & Health Education and Research

Dr Raman Kumar Verma, Honorary Executive Secretary ............................................................................. 8427. Report of Your Health Dr Minakshi Gangopadhyay, Hony. Secretary ......................................................... 8528. Report of Apka Swasthya Dr Sanjay Kumar Rai, Honorary Secretary ............................................................29. Report of IMA NSS Scheme Dr. Yogendra S. Modi, Honorary Secretary ..................................................... 8730. Report of IMA NPP Scheme Dr Jayakrishnan A V, Honorary Secretary ..................................................... 9031. Report of IMA Hospital Board of India Dr Jayesh Lele, Honorary Secretary ............................................ 9132. Report of IMA Academic Council Dr A Marthanda Pillai, Chairman ...................................................... 10033. Report of IMA Accreditation Council .........................................................................................................10034. Report of IMA National Health Scheme Dr Alex Franklin, Honorary Secretary ...................................... 10135. Report of IMA National Pension Scheme Dr K V Devadas, Honorary Secretary ...........................................36. Report of IMA Young Doctors’ Network Dr K M Abul Hasan, National Coordinator ............................... 10437. Report of IMA Medical Students’ Network Dr Sreejith N Kumar, National Coord ...................................10538. Report of Election Tribunals formed at IMA HQs.to look into discrepancies during the conduction

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of Elections to the post of President Elect, DMA & Elections to some posts of StateBranches of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand ...........................................................................................110

Reports of various activities, projects and Initiatives39. Report of Para Medical Courses Dr D. R. Rai, Dean, IMA Paramedical Courses ...................................11040. Report of IMA Mediation, Conciliation and Grievances Redressal Cell

Dr Arun Agarwal, Chairman & Dr Y P Munjal, CoChairman .........................................................................41. Report of IMA Initiative on Safe Sound Dr C John Panicker, Coordinator ............................................... 11142. Report of IMA Initiative on Prevention of Diabetic Blindness Dr NSD Raju ............................................ 12043. Report On Care of Elderly Project Dr Samuel Koshy ................................................................................. 12444. Report On Child Sexual Abuse Project, Dr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMA ....................... 124

International activities45. Report of International activities ...............................................................................................................125

Administrative matters46. Branch Constitutions for Approval ............................................................................................................ 13247. Resolutions brought forward by State/Terr. Branches ............................................................................... 13348. Resolutions brought forward by Local Branches ....................................................................................... 13349. Resolutions brought forward by individual members of the Association ................................................13350. Resolutions brought forward by various Wings /Departments of the Association ................................. 13351. Any other matter with the permission of the Chair ....................................................................................133

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Agenda Item No. B-1

The members were present as per Attendanceregister.

The dignitaries were invited to the dais. Then, theHony. Secretary General, IMA, Dr R N Tandon adornedthe National President, Dr K K Aggarwal with thePresidential Medallion. The National President thencalled the meeting to order and requested Dr R NTandon to take up the Agenda of the meeting.

IMA Prayer and Flag SalutationDr R N Tandon then, requested the members presentto stand up for the IMA Prayer followed by the FlagSalutation. The same were duly invoked.

Condolences to Departed SoulsThe House then stood up to pay their tributes to thecontribution of those members of the Associationwho had departed for their heavenly abode sincethe last meeting of the Central Working Committeeof IMA. The contribution of the departed membersto the medical profession and the Association wasduly acknowledged by the House.

Welcome of delegates by host branchAfter the condolences, W.Bengal State Branchleaders welcomed all the members of the CWC toKolkata and hoped that all the members were havinga nice experience. The House resolved to bring it onrecords its deepest appreciation and applaud for themagnificent arrangements made by Bengal StateBranch, IMA to make their participation comfortable.

The House prayed for the early recovery of its PastNational President Dr Sudipto Roy who wasadmitted in an hospital and was informed to berecovering.

MINUTES OF THE 217th MEETING OF THE CENTRAL WORKING COMMITTEE OF IMAHELD AT KOLKATA, W. BENGAL ON APRIL 15&16, 2017

Agenda Item No. A - 1.: Use of Patented IMA Logoby State Branches and IMA Doctors’ Logo byMembers

All IMA members are required to use the Medicalemblem which is a copyright of IMA for themedical profession and signifies MBBS + degree.

A committee headed by Dr A Marthanda Pillai torevise IMA Code and its applicability to all statebranches, local branches wings and members

Agenda Item No. A - 2.: Discussion on AntiMicrobial ResistanceIMA stand on Anti Microbial Resistatnce wasapproved & passed the same.

Agenda Item No. A - 3.: Discussion on National Listof Essential Medicines (NLEM)The House noted the list and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. A - 4.: Discussion on Jan AushadhiSchemeThe House noted with appreciation the successfulimplementation of the scheme in IMA HQs. andrequested the HQs. to esnure for its nationwideimplementaiton in all IMA branches.

Agenda Item No. A - 5. : Action Committeedecisions including Inter Ministerial CommitteedecisionsAll States to be requested to pursueimplementation of these by writing to appropriateauthorities.

The 137th Ordinary meeting of the Central Council ofIMA was held on 28th December, 2016 at Amritsar,Punjab.

The members were present as per the register.

Dr K K Aggarwal, National President was in the Chair.Dr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General was alsopresent. The Minutes of the 77th Annual meeting of theCentral Council were read, deliberated, approved and

Proceedings of the 137th Ordinary Meeting of the Central Councilheld on 28th December, 2016 at Amritsar, Punjab

confirmed by the House after minor changes.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.

Dr K K Aggarwal Dr R N TandonNational President Hony. Secretary General

Agenda Item No. B-2

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Issue No.

Term of Reference Report finalized on 30.3.2016 Clarification to the Report finalized on 30.3.2016

1. Frequent instances of assault on doctors and Clinical Establishment across the country and the need for a Central Legislation for providing protecting to the same.

The issue was discussed in details in the meetings on 8/12/2015 and 5/1/2016. Thereafter, comments were also sought from different stakeholders. M/o Home Affairs commented that Indian Penal Code (IPC) is a general comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law and code; criminal procedure is the main legislation or procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India irrespective of category of work etc. The IPC does not provide punishment for offences committed against any specific category of professionals. The offences which is otherwise covered in the IPC/Cr.PC committed against a doctor/clinical employee would automatically get covered under IPC/Cr.PC. IMA in its last submission indicted that States have enacted laws or issued ordinances to protect medical practitioners. Both Law & Order and Health are State subjects and the conditions differ across the country on these matters. The provisions of IPC and Cr.PC are sufficient as far as the protection of property or life of any professional in India is concerned. The Committee maintained that essentially the enforcement of these provisions was most crucial. Committee accordingly recommends as follow; (i) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare will suggest to all State Governments which do not have a specific legislation to protect doctors/health professionals to consider enacting one. (ii) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare will write to all State Governments to strictly enforce the

Committee accordingly recommends as follows:(i) Ministry of health & Family welfare shall suggest to all State Governments which do not have a specific legislation to protect doctors/health professionals to consider enacting one. (ii) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare shall write to all State Governments to strictly enforce the provisions of special legislation wherever theexists and/or enforce the IPC/Cr.PC provisions with vigor. (iii) In addition, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare shall explore the

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Clinical Establishment Act: The interministerialdecisions have to be put to effectiveimplementation.

HQs to follow up with MOH on Central HospitalProtection act

All state branches to follow up in states without anact and with an act

Follow up about inclusion of IMA in DRA andexclusion of police officer in DRA

Single and couple doctor medical practice to beexcluded from the act

Standard treatment guidelines which are onlyadvisory in nature will be issued from IMA HQs. IMAwill make appropriate mechanism for that

Word stabilise means to provide basic life support

Non MBBS cannot practice modern medicine

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Single window registration of the medicalestablishment

Exclusion of entry level NABH accreditedestablishments from inspection

Apart from these

IMA is for single window registration and singlewindow accountability

IMA shall come with IMA certified clinics which shallfollow IMA standards for empowering the familydoctors

IMA shall come out with a standard central IMAClinical Establishment act.

West Bengal Clinical Establishments Act

CWC was adjourned to protest unconstitutionalprovisions in WB CEA on day one at 4.25 PM andadjourned again for sometime at 11am on secondday

27th April, 2017 to be observed as National IMA Blackday against WB Clinical Establishment Act

Dr Vinay Aggarwal, Past National President, IMA wasnominated as an observer to West Bengal StateBranch to oversee issues linked to West BengalClinicalEstablishments Act

IMA shall oppose the West Bengal ClinicalEstablishments Act, politically (lobbying with thestate government), legally (High Court and SupremeCourt) and by way of protest (all formats, includingnonobedience and without affecting patient care).Dr Ajay Kumar, Dr A Marthanda Pillai and Dr VinayAggarwal all Past Presidents shall be the NationalConvenors for this.

All unconstitutional clauses should be excluded.

Any act where judicial powers are shifted toadministrators should be opposed. IMA is againstbringing back the jury system

AccountabilityIMA is not against accountability but no one can takelaw in their hands. IMA has zero tolerance to attackson medical establishments.

IMA also is for single window accountability.

Central ActsIMA shall oppose all central and or state acts whichcriminalises Medical practice.

IMA shall oppose all central and or state acts whichtakes away the powers of Judiciary and gives it toadministrators weather medical or nonmedical. IMAis against bringing back the jury system.

PC PNDT ActIMA shall continue to fight cases in various courts

Violence against medical professionRoot cause analysis of all violence cases shall be done

IMA to launch national register against violence

Quick response teams shall be formed at branchlevels

The state government should compensate healthcare providers when victims of violence

Experienced doctors shall be posted in critical areas

IMA shall promote CMES on IMA BCLS, MA ACLS andskill cum communication courses.

Government should have a suitable mechanism forcompensating violence victims from health care

Such cases should be handles with fast track courts

Suit of damages shall also be filed against theattackers.

A standard poster shall be created by IMA regardingthe hospital the protection bill along with alllanguages translation so that it can ready madeavailable on the web site of IMA. Once we havereceived English translation the respected states arerequested to translate it and sent to IMA Hqrs sothat we can have all type of material available onIMA Website.

CrosspathyIMA anaesthetists shall not assist AYUSH doctorsdoing surgical procedures

IMA doctors shall not employ AYUSH doctors in theirestablishments for assisting in modern medicine

All cases of crosspathy in different state high courts

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to be shifted to Supreme Court

IMA opposes the concept of nurse, physiotherapistor pharmacist practitioners

IMA branched shall expose all IMA members whoare promoting these practices and also quackery.

All IMA members are mandated to use the medicalemblems logo which can only be used by an MBBSdoctor

Agenda Item No. A - 6.: IMA Protest - “When & How”strategyModes of protest shall be decided by the Actioncommittee of IMA Hq. However, any protest shallallow attending emergencies.

IMA Action Committee PlanIMA will launch a IMATorch campaign to earmarkthe problems faced by the doctors in which the Torchshall be circulated in every State Branch

In National Action Committee, the Chairman ofNational Protection Profession Scheme may be coopted.

Agenda Item No. A - 7.: Revised IMA PrayerThe House noted the revised IMA Prayer andapproved & passed the same.

Agenda Item No. A - 9.: Decisions of IMAAccreditation and Academic CouncilsIMA Accreditation Council

The members shall be National President, HSG,Chairman, 5 Zonal Vice Chairmen, Chairman, IMAAcademy, Research & Medical Establishment Wings,Chairman, IMA AMS, Dean, IMACGP, Hony. Director,IMA AKN Sinha Institute, Chairman, Hospital Boardof India, Chairman, Knowledge Wing, Dean,Paramedical Council, Chairman, CME Fund,Chairman, Academic Council, OSD to ChairmanAccreditation Council, Nominee NABH, NomineeNBE, Nominee ICMR, Nominee Ministry of Health,Nominee Health Universities.

Quorum of Meeting National President and HonySecretary General, IMA, Chairman, AccreditationCouncil + 5 others

The IMA Accreditation council shall accreditate IMA

National Professors, IMA National Faculty, IMACourses and Fee Structure and award IMA CreditHours. The council shall also have a bettercoordination, streamlining & upgradation of allacademic activities of IMA.

The council shall meet by circulation monthly or asand when required physically.

The council shall appoint IMA National Professors.They shall be appointed for three years and may berenewed thereafter. People of eminence can beappointed as Life Time IMA Professors. NationalAwardees (Padma or B C Roy National Award etc.)can be nominated by the Council. The criterial shallbe IMA Life Member with 15 years of Post PG or 20years of Post MBBS with more than five publicationsin any reputed journal.

DNB and MCI Recognized Professors who are LifeMember of IMA can be considered by the Councilsuo moto for the post.

Once appointed IMA National Professor can use thisdesignation on their Letter Head and Visiting Cards.They shall be given preference by State and LocalBranches as Faculty for conducting CMEs. Any of theCME conducted by them will automatically be givenIMA Credit Hours.

The IMA Accreditation Council shall also accreditateIMA National Faculty. IMA Life Members with 10years Post PG or 15 years Post MBBS experience withatleast three research paper in a reputed journal canapply. The same may be renewed every three years.

National IMA shall accreditate all IMA Hqs, State &Local Branch International, National or RegionalCME’s (Workshops, Seminars, Lectures, Conferenceswith IMA Credit Hours. IMA Credit Hours will be inthe form of a e Certificate with National IMARegistered Logo.

For one hour of Scientific CME (physical, print oronline), 1 IMA Credit Hour will be given.Chairpersons, Moderators and panellists shall alsobe given IMA CME hours based on the same duration.IMA credit hours (one IMA credit hour per article/book chapter, author or coauthor) shall also be givenfor publishing a paper in any indexed Journal (ICI,MCI, UGC, Medlar etc)

CME (print, physical or online) on Bio ethics, MedicoLegal Aspects, Adverse Reporting, Mental Health,Anti Microbial Resistance or on WHO theme extra

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0.5 credit hour will be given for one hour CME.

The fee for each CME will be Rs.50/ per session orconference per delegate ecertificate. 50% share willbe for the State and Local Branch combine and 50%share for IMA HQs. The IMA HQs/ state IMA shallappoint an observer for every CME.

Efforts shall be made by IMA HQs. so that all IMAcredit hours and courses are accredited byState Councils.

Bihar Medical council has already accredited the AKNSinha Courses.

IMA shall also accredit Courses, Lectures,Workshops, seminars and CME’s (online or physical)organized by fellow organizations and institutes ororganizations of repute. IMA fee for suchaccreditation will be 10% of the gross registrationfee with a minimum of Rs.10000/

IMA shall not accreditate any promotional, selfadvertising CME organized by pharmaceuticalCompanies or allied health care industry.

The council shall also accreditate print and onlinecourses of its wings. IMA AKN Sinha Institute shalldevelop and run correspondence courses; IMA CGPprint or ecourses for general practitioners and IMAAMS print or ecourses for specialists.

The council shall also define all courses run by thewings as certificate Courses or Fellowship Course.No diploma or degree course shall be organized. Theduration of the course shall be decided byAccreditation Council on case to case basis. Once acourse is submitted to the academic & accreditationcouncil, the same shall be approved within 30calendar days.

The certificate course shall have preand postevaluation and Fellowship Course shall have a theoryand practical exams.

In both Certificate and Fellowship Courses priorityshall be given to courses in which, MCI does not havediploma or PG for e.g. nonpelvic Ultrasound,Echocardiography etc. Certification courses shouldbe for minimum 6 months.

IMA Accreditation Council can consider Coursesdeveloped by IMA FOMA partners on sharingmodels.

For developing courses, IMA may pay 7% royalty tocourse writer. IMA may also invite authors to writebooks for IMA at royalty of 7%.

5th September every year, Teachers Day, shall beorganized as IMA National Convocation Day.

All Fellowship/Certificates shall be awarded on thatday.

Fellow IMA (FIMA): IMA shall organize an AnnualFellowship exam every year. All IMA Life Membersshall be entitled to give online exam. The exam shallbe based on multiple choice questions of happeningsin the last one decade. Those who secure more than50% of marks will be given a Certificate of Fellow ofIMA which they can use on their letter head orvisiting cards.

The same should be renewable after every fiveyears.

IMA shall explore tie ups with reputed UGCrecognized universities for IMA educationalprogrammes.Initially IMA HQs will contribute/loan funds to

Accreditation Council.

IMA recommends that all IMA members shouldparticipate in professional meetings as part ofContinuing Medical Education Programs on a regularbasis.

Agenda Item No. B - 1.: Minutes of the 216th meetingof the Central Working Committee held at Chennaion November 12&13, 2016 and Action Taken thereonThe House noted the Minutes and the Action TakenReport and after a few minor typographical changesin the Minutes, approved & passed both of them.

Agenda Item No. B - 2.: Activity report of Dr RoyAbraham Kallivayalil, Senior National Vice PresidentThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 3.: Activity report of Dr KPrakasam, National Vice PresidentThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 6.: “Together We can Win” –IMA Activity Report by Dr K K Aggarwal, NationalPresident, IMA and Dr R N Tandon, HonorarySecretary General, IMA

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The House noted the report presented through aPowerpoint presentation and approved & passedthe same with wide appreciation and applause.

Agenda Item No. B - 7.: Minutes of meeting of FOMA,April 6, 2017, New Delhi - Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMAThe IMAFederation of Medical Associations (IMAFOMA) stands for ethical practice of medicine andhas zero tolerance for unethical practices. Anypayment where a service is not involved is deemedunethical.

Sex selection and female foeticide leading toconviction will invite disciplinary action by IMAFOMA members. Any members, so convicted, willforfeit the membership of all IMAFOMAorganisations.

IMA FOMA advocates decriminalisation of medicalpractice. All legislations from IPC to POCSO shouldrecognise absence of mens rea in medical practiceor an intention to harm and jurisdiction of criminalprosecution of medical practice and medicalnegligence has to be discontinued.

Doctors should be provided a single accountabilitywindow withdrawing the jurisdiction of multipleforums. Similarly, medical establishment s shouldhave single window registration facility.

Practice of modern medicine and prescription ofmodern medicine scheduled drugs shall vest onlywith doctors of modern medicine.

IMA FOMA demands that Central legislation againstviolence on doctors, staff and hospitals be enacted.

IMA FOMA reiterates that the professionalautonomy of MCI has to be retained. Whileamendments to the IMC Act are essential, NMC isunacceptable.

IMA FOMA endorses a common All India Final MBBSExam and reject NEXT.

Standard Treatment Guidelines will emanate fromthe professional organisations led by IMAFOMA.

Clinical Establishments Act has to be hospitalfriendly eschewing License Raj for accreditation

IMA FOMA Resolutions

It was resolved to invite one member from eachFOMA Specialty Organization to the Central Council

Meeting and provide them local hospitality.

Headquarters will budget Rs ten lac every year forFOMA activities

IMA will be the mother NGO for FOMA (Federationof Medical Associations).

All major primary medical Associations in India willbe invited to become an Hony. Member of FOMAthrough their President/Secretary/their nominee foraction committee.

IMA FOMA members will meet atleast twice in ayear.

National President of IMA or one of the PastPresident will be the President of FOMA and Hony.Secretary General will be the Secretary of FOMA.

The Presidents, Secretaries and Action CommitteeNominee of various Organizations/Associations shallbe the member of Management Board

IMA will provide local hospitality for all the meetingsand the travel arrangements shall be made by therespective Organizations/Associations.

IMA FOMA shall work on national issues ofimportance to medical profession.

IMA FOMA shall come out with Declarations/Statements/White Papers/Policies, StandardTreatment Guidelines etc. on regular basis endorsedby all the Organizations/Associations.

IMA FOMA Action Committee will interact with Govt.of India, Ministry of Health on regular basis onsubject of common interest.

IMA FOMA shall create a local Google group tocommunicate on daily basis with all its members.

IMA FOMA will come out with joint initiatives withindividual Organizations/ Associations and alsogroup of organizations under FOMA on various healthissues.

Agenda Item No. B - 8.: Minutes of meeting of StateLeaders Meet, April 2, 2017, New Delhi - Dr R NTandon, HSG, IMAThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 9.: Report of milestones for Team

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Digital IMA-IMA Teleconferencing Services-Dr R NTandon, HSG, IMAThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 10.: Minutes and Action TakenReport of Meetings of Finance Standing Committee& Building Standing Committee held at Amritsar on27-12-2016 - Dr V K Monga, Honorary FinanceSecretary, IMAIMA state and local branches should use theterm…………….branch IMA for registration

Next CWC and OB meet with PS meet to be clubbedtogether and be organised in Delhi on 23/34

September as IMA Centenary Conference. Moneyhas already been sanctioned for the same.

IMA shall explore next OB meet as destination meet

All FDs of IMA or wings, original shall be located atIMA HQ custody. Renewal of them shall have thesignature of HSG/ HFC as one of the signatories. AllFDs should be invested in consultation with NP,Chairman FSC and be centralised so as to getmaximum returns.

All wings and projects to have a uniform accountingsystem over tally

IMA health keeping task force may be activated

IMA shall explore buying lands and buildings panIndia in association/ help with branches or states

Resolved that all office bearers of IMA and its wingsmay be entitled for air fare from respective accountsfor official meetings as per discretion of HSG and NP.The air ticket should be booked at least one monthbefore in routine cases or within a week of the saidmeeting notice. For any emergency meetings ofvarious SubCommittees etc., air fare shall bereimbursed for which separate funds may be raisedby the Wings/Projects

IMA special committee to decide about 7th PayCommission implementation for the staff.Recommendations to be received in four weeks

It was passed that IMA had quarter will raise onecrore for IMA issues related public advertisementsfrom various claim statements and campaigns. Allsates will also contribute 5 10 lac each for this

purpose. In the adv where state money is used thename of the state will be acknowledged.

IMA to econnect will build up a database of all officebearers of IMA at HQ, State and Local levels. Fivezonal coordinators may be made for the same.IMA states and local branches to promote theirtwitter and FB accounts and link them theheadquarters accounts.

IMA shall organise a series of workshops with stakeholders including one on how to handle shortage ofdoctors in rural areas and EOL issues

Future ConferencesThe Finance Standing Committee, Central WorkingCommittee and Central Council have alreadyaccepted, approved and sanctioned expensestoward organization of the Conference for CentenaryYear celebrations of Medical Conferences in India.This may be organized in Delhi on 2324th Septemberalong with State Leadership Review meeting and218th Meeting of Central Working Committee of IMA.Proceeds from Conference to be utilized in an Officebearers meeting to be held abroad in the later partof the year.

The contribution amount of Rs. 50,000/ being paidby a bidding Branch for Annual National Conferenceof IMA/Central Council Meeting be raised to Rs.2 lacs.

The House noted the Minutes and the report andapproved & passed the same.

Agenda Item No. B - 11.: Report of IMA HQ’s Buildingat New Delhi-Dr. Ashok Kumar Dalmiya,Hony. Jt.Secy.IMA Hqs to build a club for its members as sanctionedearlier

The Committee consisting of Honorary SecretaryGeneral, Honorary Joint Secretary, Building andHonorary Finance Secretary constituted by NationalPresident, IMA to execute work related to electricalrepairs at headquarters.

Photographs of all Past National Presidents andHonorary Secretaries General to be obtained as faras possible and be displayed prominently in theBuilding.

All recently renovated areas of IMA Building to beinaugurated before 1st July

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IMA is bearing immense revenue losses due to nonpayment of rent by one of its tenant M/s ArthBusiness News Channel. Legal suit for possessionand recovery should be expedited

Regarding repair of IMA HQs Building at Kolkata acommittee consisting of Dr R N Tandon, Dr V KMonga, Dr Santosh Kumar Mandal and Dr AshwaniDalamiya is constituted to look into the issues andcome back with possible suggestions within 4 weeks.

The House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 12.: Report of IMA HQ’s Buildingat Kolkatta-Dr. Santosh Kumar Mandal,Hony. Jt. Secy,KolkataThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 13.: Report of H.R. activities-Dr.Anil Goyal,Hony. Jt. Secy.The House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 14.: Report on Formation/Revival/Suspension/Merger/Change in name ofLocal Branches - Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Honorary JointSecretary.The House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 15.: Position of HFC andMembership - Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Honorary JointSecretaryMembership related issuesRequests received from State branches requestingdiscount in Life membership subscription in HFC wasnot accepted by the CWC. However, the states arefree to provide any amount of discount from theirState share.

IMA Functioning (State and local Branches)

That all Past National Presidents of IMA HQs. andPast Heads of its constitutional wings (AMS, CGP, HBI,AKNS) shall be defacto exofficio members, withfull voting rights and other privileges, of theexecutive bodies of the respective wings atnational, respective States and their local branchlevels, wherever they exist, with immediate effect.For example, all Past National Presidents of IMA shallbe exofficio office bearer of IMA HQs., respectiveIMA State Branch and local branch of IMA to whichhe/she belongs. Similarly, all past chairmen of IMA

AMS HQs shall be member of governing council ofIMA AMS HQs, respective state chapters, IMA AMS&local branch chapter, IMA AMS to which he/shebelongs. Also, all past deans of IMACGP shall bemember of governing council of IMA CGP HQs,respective state faculty, IMA CGP& branch faculty,IMACGP to which he/she belongs. This shallautomatically apply to Past Heads of all otherconstitutional wings of IMA.

That in accordance with ByeLaw 1(e) read with Rule7A and 8 of Memorandum, Rules and ByeLaws ofIMA, the membership privileges of an applicant forIMA Membership at any level [Headquarter, State orLocal Branch Level] would only begin from the dateof allotment of a unique IMA HQs membership Id(Number) by the IMA HQs office after properverification of all relevant documents and meetingof all relevant conditions of acceptance of his/hermembership application at IMA HQs office and grantof approval by the Honorary Secretary General ofIMA (Hq). Till then, the concerned applicant is strictlynot entitled to any privileges including, but notlimited to, voting rights at IMA HQs., State or localBranch level. However, during the interim period(i.e. the period between application forMembership and final decision of the saidapplication regarding allotment of HQs. MembershipId. (Number), such an applicant may be allowed toattend other Association meetings / CMEs /Conferences etc. subject to the individual / collectivediscretion of the IMA HQs / concerned State or localbranch involved.

That after a deeper inspection and a clearerinterpretation of the above Constitutionalprovisions, it is clarified that only the Membershiplist maintained in the IMA HQs. on the relevant date,as per the schedule of elections under question, shallform the basis of Electoral College for such election(s)at any level of IMA.

One time amnesty shall be given till December 2017to all IMA life members (with a cutoff date of 28th

December 2016) to become members of IMAAMS orIMACGP ( the fee of Rs 1000 will be waved off). Afterthe cutoff date they shall be inducted as per theIMA byelaws

All members of JDN ( upto five years of MBBS), canavail IMA life membership by paying interest freeinstalments in five years.

All medical students can apply for free e membershipof IMA till they get their MBBS registration.

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The House noted the position of HFC and approved& passed the same.

Agenda Item No. B - 16.: Report of JIMA -Dr KakoliSen, Honorary Secretary, JIMAJIMA: JIMA and other publications of IMA can onlypublish IMA Journals. They shall not indulge inorganising any conferences or other events

A time bound ( two weeks) committee headed by DrR V Asokan ( HSG, Chairman Building and ChairmanFinance) will look into JIMA accounts ever since it isbeing published from Kolkata. Details of incomes,revenue to be reported. It has been claimed thatlast month JIMA has published over 1.5 lac copiesbut the journal does not show the same revenues.The committee will also go through the accounts andpermissions granted to JIMACON. JIMA is publicationand cannot organise conferences

The same committee will also look into the accountsof aap ka swastya and your health and giverecommendations s to how to make them nationalviable issues

A special committee of Dr Arul Rhaj, Dr V inayAggarwal, JIMA Editor and Ravi Wankhedkar to givesuggestions about JIMA functioning within twoweeks after the report is submitted to the headquarters.

Agenda Item No. B - 17.: Report of IMA College ofGeneral Practitioners - Dr R Gunasekaran, HonorarySecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 18.: Report of IMA Academy ofMedical Specialties - Dr. V S Rao, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 19.: Report of IMA Dr. AKN SinhaInstitute of Medical & Health Education andResearch - Dr Raman Kumar Verma, HonoraryExecutive SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 20.: Report of Your Health -DrAshok Kumar Chatterjee, EditorThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 22.: Report of IMA NSS Scheme-Dr. Yogendra S. Modi, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 23.: Report of IMA NPP Scheme-Dr Jayakrishnan A V, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 24.: Report of IMA HospitalBoard of India -Dr Jayesh Lele, Honorary SecretaryInsurance

As stakeholders in health care we resolve to worktogether for better relationship between all staekeholders.

IMA hereby floats a dialogue forum which will becalled “National working Group”. This will functionas a nodal body and also redress grievances.

Empanelment procedures have to be transparent.

IMA HBI will facilitate ROHINI registration.

IMA HBI rededicates itself in providing NABH entrylevel accreditation

Standard Treatment Guidelines will be formulatedand updated by IMA

Inflation index will be monitored by IMA HBI

Differential billing is unethical

Code of conduct for doctors vis a vis health insurancecompanies will be evolved.

IMA will facilitate categorization and grading ofhospitals

IMA will explore co designing and co authoring aninsurance product

IMA HBI will offer blinded peer review services

The idea of empanelment of doctors in addition tohospitals was mooted

IMA formally declared the need for a special packageproduct for doctors

IMA HBI formally required the insurance companies

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and TPAs to include IMA HBI in their advisory panels.


Agenda Item No. B - 25.: Report of IMA NationalHealth Scheme -Dr Alex Franklin, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 27.: Report of IMA YoungDoctors’ wing -Dr K M Abul Hasan, NationalCoordinatorThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 28.: Report of IMA Students’wing -Dr Sreejith N Kumar, National CoordinatorThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 29.: Media Section: Team DigitalIMA - The Voice of Medical ProfessionThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 30.: IMA Legal FormatsThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 31.: Report of Election Tribunalformed at IMA HQs.to look into discrepancies duringthe conduction of Elections to the post of PresidentElect, DMAThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 32.: Report of Para MedicalCourses - Dr D. R. Rai, Dean, IMA ParamedicalCoursesThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 33.: Report of IMA Mediation,Conciliation and Grievances Redressal Cell - Dr ArunAgarwal, Chairman & Dr Y P Munjal, Co-ChairmanThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 34.: Report of IMA Initiative onSafe Sound - Dr C John Panicker, CoordinatorThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 35.: Report of IMA Initiative on

Prevention of Diabetic Blindness- Dr NSD RajuThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 36.: Report On Care of ElderlyProject- Dr Samuel KoshyThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 37.: Report of InternationalactivitiesThe House noted that IndiaChina Initiative will besigned in Z imbabwe during the WMA counci lmeeting.The House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 38.: Branch Constitutions forApprovalThe House authorised the IMA HQs. office to gothrough the presented Constitutions of the Branchesand approve them on behalf of the CWC if they arein order.

Agenda Item No. B - 39.: Resolutions brought forwardby State/Terr. BranchesThe Resolutions presented before the House wereaccepted and approved.

Agenda Item No. B - 43.: Any other matter with thepermission of the ChairAll Executive Decisions taken in the Central Councilmeeting held on 28th December 2016 and on March25, 2017 were passed.

IMA Mumbai west and IMA Dhule branch shallorganise the NATCON 2017 and 77th Central Councilmeeting of IMA at Mumbai

Issues related to abolition of IMA Kannur NorthBranch in Kerala and merger of its membership withKannur Branch. Any Court Order in this regard to befollowed in true letter and spirit. Legal opinion tobe obtained by IMA HQs.

WB State Council decision against Dr R D Dubey, abonafide member of IMA, was declared null and voidby a Special Committee constituted for this purposey the National President (Dr Ajay Kumar, Dr K KAggarwal, Dr Marthanda Pillai, Dr Askok Adhao, DrRavi Wankhedkar, Dr R N Tandon and Dr Aroul Rhaj)

That all issues concerning the medical profession or

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members including, but not limited to,administrative / departmental / local or districtauthorities’ issues at any state / local branch levelneeds to be immediately brought to the knowledgeof the IMA HQs. by the concerned IMA State / localBranch leaders for relevant and proper action andfollow up. Further, the IMA HQs. reserves the rightto take up any such issue suo moto on being knownfrom any source, without any need of a properrequest.

Thereafter, the decisions taken and instructionsissued by IMA HQs. considering the generalviewpoints and in the interest of the medicalprofession as a whole, shall be binding on one andall. Any reluctance or refusal to conform to suchdecisions by any Member / State / Local Branch ofIMA shall call for disciplinary action and shall bereferred to the concerned Committee(s) in IMA HQs.for their necessary action.

Also, the IMA HQs. reserves the right to appoint /nominate an observer for any activity of any IMAState / local branch.

That in accordance with Rule 7A of theMemorandum, Rules and ByeLaws of IMA (HQs), allBranches of the IMA namely State/ Territorial / Local/ Direct Branches and IMA Overseas Branches shallbe under the overall control of the IMA Headquartersand shall be governed by the provisions ofMemorandum, Rules and ByeLaws of IMA HQs.

Further, as per Rule 8 of Memorandum, Rules andByeLaws of IMA (HQs), the individual Memorandum,Rules and ByeLaws of the IMA State or LocalBranches are to be in general conformity with theMemorandum, Rules and ByeLaws of the IMA (Hq).

Therefore, reading of the Rule 7A of theMemorandum, Rules and ByeLaws of IMA (Hq)combined with Rule 8 of the same, stipulates thatthe provisions of the same are binding on all IMAState and local Branches and any order passed bythe HQs. / Central Working Committee or the CentralCouncil of IMA is binding on all IMA Members / State/ Local Branches. Thus, the complete and directcontrol of IMA (Hq) over all IMA Members / State /Local Branches is duly defined.

That IMA local branches, to promote goodwill, byconsensus may decide to elect their office bearersunanimously in their annual meet.

From 1st January, changeover of all office bearers at

all local and state branches shall be in synchronouswith the headquarters and shall complete by 28thDecember. IMA new year shall start on 29thDecember.

All state and local branches elections shall be fortwo years as per IMA rules applicable for the nextelections this year.

No member of IMA shall be suspended by localbranch or the state branch unless that suspensionhas been rectified by the CWC and the CC. Also, thedecision of the CWC or the CC shall be binding onstates and the local branches. CWC and CC howevershall have the powers to suspend or terminate theprimary membership of any member even on suomoto basis.One of the Vice Presidents IMA post shall be reservedfor women at all levels.MSN and JDN, shall have a representation in all local,state and central executives.All national issues will be dealt with by IMA (Hq)even if the cause of action had arisen in a state. Allthe state issues likely to have national impact haveto be informed to the IMA Hq. The same shall bedealt as per the directions of IMA Hq.

Consensus of opinion in a state means majorityopinion amongst the local branches of a state or SWCor State Council as the case may be. Consensus ofopinion at national level means majority opinionamongst the state branches and /or CWC members.

In all national issues, decision of IMA hq shall bebinding

Whether an issue has national repercussions will beascertained from the CWC members or the statebranches.

If any state branch refuses to obey the directives ofIMA Hq , the case will be referred to GrievanceRedressal and Disciplinary committee of IMA Hq.

In a state level issue if a non IMA organisation seeksthe support of IMA at national level it has to bechannelized by the state branch in an appropriateformat, either as a signed letter or an official e mail.However, when issues of the profession arise, IMAHq reserves the right for suo moto action.

No member of IMA, state or local branch shall go tothe court on any issue against each other withoutexhausting the grievances mechanism availablewithin the IMA system at various levels.

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IMA redressal cells for the public to be strengthensin every state

Its unethical for doctors to pays cuts, rebates andcommissions. Similarly, it is unethical for tPAs andhospitals to charge a percentage of money fromconsultants which amounts to a commission or arebate.All IMA members shall do free community serviceunder the banner/ cobanner of IMA

IMA shall fight for uniform infrastructure availabilityand service conditions for service doctors, studentsand junior doctors

WingsMany Branches/ Wings/ States are forming their ownCommittee/SubCommittees which already exists inthe IMA HQs. No such Committee/SubCommitteecan be formed without the permission of IMA HQsout of the Constitution of IMA.

All existing hospital / nursing home/ medicalestablishments boards at state / local branch levels,shall automatically fall under the jurisdiction of IMAHospital Board of India.

Parliamentary Committee wing of IMA headed byDr Sanjay Jaiswal, Member of Parliament may beactivated and they should be sensitized all thesubjects of doctors of IMA.Similar exercise shouldbe done at State and Local level

Through Face Book Live IMA shall have series ofcommunications skill training of our IMA doctors.

IMA should come out with a standard medical andsurgical consent form for both OPD and IPDtreatments ( including surrogacy consent,unexpected events consent and sudden cardiacdeath consent)

IMA shall have a centralized 1012 videos on thesubject of violence for script writing

Every State must create awareness about the raredisease

IMA branches should promote and go for virtualautopsy in disputed cases

Code violet may be uniformly used by everybody.

Patient Doctor RelationshipIMA’s campaign ALERT shall be propagated to every

member of IMA to improve patient doctorrelationship.

IMA has zero tolerance to receiving any moneywithout providing any services through cuts,commissions and unethical practises

IMA has zero tolerance to sex selective abortionsand mandates its members to expose such doctors.

IMA is for compulsory registration of pregnancy andtracking it to prevent female feticide.IMA shall propagate IMA BCLS and IMA ACLS coursesat national level.

Doctor Doctor RelationshipIMA has zero tolerance to doctors giving cuts andcommissions to other doctors

IMA members shall not charge consultation fee toother IMA members even in insurance claims andpackage deals

All IMA members owning medical establishmentshall not charge fellow IMA members more than thecost of consumables

IMA should come out with a mechanism that IMAmembers get medicines, devices and disposables atcost

IMA should come out with a mechanism that IMAmembers gets their investigations done at cost ofconsumables plus 10%

IMA Campaigns: shall run for next five years:Poochna mat bholloo; baar baar poochoo; forget menot; think before you ink; SHHH silent hours; sun tolo, eat with your doctor; walk with your doctor;jaroorat bhi he kiya; kio dekh to nahi raha,; koi sun tonahi raha; mei hoo na; katwayega to nahi; charitybegins at home and all others started in this year.

Agenda Item No. C: Financial mattersThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

After this the meeting ended with a vote of thanksto the Chair.

Dr K K Aggarwal Dr R N TandonNational President Honorary Secretary General

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Agenda Item No. A - 1.: Use of Patented IMA Logo byState Branches and IMA Doctors’ Logo by Members

Necessary communications have been made to allState Branches to ask all their members to use theMedical emblem which is a copyright of IMA for themedical profession and signifies MBBS + degree.

Committee headed by Dr A Marthanda Pillai issupervising the IMA Code and its applicability to allstate branches, local branches wings and members

Agenda Item No. A - 3.: Discussion on National Listof Essential Medicines (NLEM)The list is uploaded on the website of IMA foreverybody

Agenda Item No. A - 4.: Discussion on Jan AushadhiSchemeCommunicaitons sent form IMA HQs. to StateBrancehs requesting them to esnure for nationwideimplementaiton of the IMA Jan Aushadhi scheme inall IMA branches.

Agenda Item No. A - 5. : Action Committee decisionsincluding Inter Ministerial Committee decisionsIMA HQs. is vigorously following up all activitiesrelated to the Inter Ministerial Committee. Allmeetings are being well attended by the NationalPresident and the Honorary Secretary General.Agenda Item No. A - 6.: IMA Protest - “When & How”strategyIMA Action Committee Plans are being effectivelyimplemented

The Chairman of National Protection ProfessionScheme coopted In National Action Committee.

Agenda Item No. A - 7.: Revised IMA PrayerThe House noted the revised IMA Prayer andapproved & passed the same.

Agenda Item No. B - 7.: Minutes of meeting of FOMA,April 6, 2017, New Delhi - Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMAAll stakeholder of Federation of MedicalAssociations (IMAFOMA) are being regularlycontacted and updated besides being kept in loopfor all issues related to the entire medicalprofession.

ACTION TAKEN REPORT ON THE MINUTES OF THE 217th MEETING OF THE CENTRAL WORKINGCOMMITTEE OF IMA HELD AT KOLKATA, W. BENGAL ON APRIL 15&16, 2017

Agenda Item No. B - 9.: Report of milestones for TeamDigital IMA-IMA Teleconferencing Services-Dr R NTandon, HSG, IMAAll National and State leaders are constantly beingcontacted using teleconferencing services.

Agenda Item No. B - 10.: Minutes and Action TakenReport of Meetings of Finance Standing Committee& Building Standing Committee held at Amritsar on27-12-2016 - Dr V K Monga, Honorary FinanceSecretary, IMANecessary guidelines being informed to all IMA stateand local branches regarding use the term__________ branch, IMA for registration with theirrespective Registrar of Societies.

Communications made requesting all original FDsof IMA wings, to be sent to IMA HQ for safe custody.

All wings and projects requested to have a uniformaccounting system using Tally software

IMA health keeping task force activated. IMADisaster Management merged with this Tas Force.

All office bearers of IMA and its wings are nowentitled for air fare from respective accounts forofficial meetings as per discretion of HSG and NP.

IMA special committee working on applying the 7th

Pay Commission recommendations for the staff ofIMA

IMA headquarter will raise one crore for IMA issuesrelated public advertisements from various claimstatements and campaigns. All sates requested tocontribute 5 10 lac each for this purpose. In the advwhere state money is used the name of the statewill be acknowledged.

Necessary changes incorporated in the IMAConstitution increasing the contribution amount ofRs.50,000/ being paid by a bidding Branch for AnnualNational Conference of IMA/Central Council Meetingto Rs.2 lacs.

Agenda Item No. B - 11.: Report of IMA HQ’s Buildingat New Delhi-Dr. Ashok Kumar Dalmiya,Hony. Jt.Secy.The Committee consisting of Honorary SecretaryGeneral, Honorary Joint Secretary, Building and

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Honorary Finance Secretary constituted by NationalPresident, IMA to execute work related to electricalrepairs at headquarters.

Photographs of all Past National Presidents andHonorary Secretaries General are being tried to beobtained for displaying prominently in the IMA HQs.Building.

All recently renovated areas of IMA HQs. Buildinginaugurated

Legal action initiated to recover revenue losses dueto nonpayment of rent by M/s Arth Business NewsChannel.

Regarding repair of IMA HQs Building at Kolkata acommittee consisting of Dr R N Tandon, Dr V K

Monga, Dr Santosh Kumar Mandal and Dr AshwaniDalamiya is constituted to look into the issues.

Agenda Item No. B - 16.: Report of JIMA -Dr KakoliSen, Honorary Secretary, JIMAJIMA: Committee formed to look into these issuesalready met on few occasions and shall be presentingits report in the next meeting of the CWC.

Agenda Item No. B - 43.: Any other matter with thepermission of the ChairPreparations are in full swing in Mumbai by IMAMumbai west branch to organise the NATCON 2017and 77th Central Council meeting of IMA

Dr R N TandonHonorary Secretary General, IMA

Agenda Item No. B-3

MINUTES OF THE 218th MEETING OF THE CENTRAL WORKING COMMITTEE OF IMAHELD AT NEW DELHI ON SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2017

The members were present as per Attendanceregister.

The dignitaries were invited to the dais. Then, theHony. Secretary General, IMA, Dr R N Tandonadorned the National President, Dr K K Aggarwalwith the Presidential Medallion. The NationalPresident then called the meeting to order andrequested Dr R N Tandon to take up the Agenda ofthe meeting.

IMA Prayer and Flag SalutationDr R N Tandon then, requested the members presentto stand up for the IMA Prayer followed by the FlagSalutation. The same were duly invoked.

Condolences to Departed SoulsThe House was informed about the sad demise ofthe Past National President, IMA, Dr V C V Pillai andPast Honorary Secretary, JIMA and Your Health, DrRahul Dutta. While paying rich tributes to thedeparted Past National President, IMA, Dr V C VPillai, the following resolutions were passed by theHouse as a mark of respect to the departed soul:· All National Past Presidents of IMA shall be given

National Honour after their soul leaves theirphysical body.

· IMA Flag to fly half mast from the day of demisetill the day of last rites.

· All members of IMA to observe 2minutes’silence at the time of last rites of departed

National Presidents· “Dr V C V Pillai Memorial Annual Address” shall

be delivered at the ensuing Installationceremony on 28th December, 2017 at Mumbai,Maharashtra as a part of the IMA Foundation Day

· In his memory, IMA has launched a NationalProgram “Physician’s health first” and the period30th July to 5th September every year shall beobserved as a period for medical checkups of allIMA members.

The House then stood up to pay their tributes to thecontribution of those members of the Associationwho had departed for their heavenly abode sincethe last meeting of the Central Working Committeeof IMA. The contribution of the departed membersto the medical profession and the Association wasduly acknowledged by the House.

Welcome of delegatesAfter the condolences, the Honorary SecretaryGeneral, Dr R N Tandon welcomed all the membersof the CWC to Delhi and hoped that all the memberswere having a nice experience. The House resolvedto bring it on records its deepest appreciation andapplaud for the magnificent arrangements made byIMA Hqs. to make their participation comfortable.

Agenda Item No. A - 1.: Non implementation of interministerial committee recommendations so far bythe government of India

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The matter related to acceptance of IMA demandsby the Government was discussed at length. Afterdiscussions and deliberations, it was decided thatall State Branches of IMA shall observe “Dawn toDusk Fast” from 6am to 6 pm on October 2, 2017 at aprominent location in their area, in a nonviolentstructured manner, preferably in front/near a statuteof Mahatma Gandhi or his photograph. All localbranches shall organize :

· Special General Body Meetings in accordance

their constitutional quorum at the abovedesignated place any time during 2ndOctober,2017

· Shall pass the following resolution and post andemail that resolution along with a letter toHon’ble Prime Minister of India (Letter templatewill be finalised and sent to the States and localBranches by IMA HQs. soon) with a copy to ChiefMinister of their respective State/LocalAdministrative Head:

Resolution All ______ (Number of members of your Branch) doctors of ______ (Branch name) of ______ (State name) hereby resolved on 2nd October, 2017 that the time has come for the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India to intervene to resolve the following issues faced by the medical professionals in the community effecting the community health on priority: 1. Central Act to tackle violence against medical profession 2. Delinking penal provisions against doctors for minor clerical errors in act like

PCPNDT etc. 3. Timely amendments in agreed changes in Clinical Establishments Act and PC PNDT

Act 4. Capping of compensation in cases of medical negligence 5. Withdrawal of National Medical Council Bill & EXIT proposal (NEXT)

Clinical Establishment Act : The suggestions sent byIMA to the Inter Ministerial Committee have beenagreed by them. The House thanked the AdditionalSecretary, Economic Advisor and Dr. Dhamija whowere physically present in the meeting whoinformed the House that the decisions and Minutesof the Inter Ministerial Committee have beenincorporated in the Minutes of the meeting of theNational Council on Clinical Establishments Act heldon 8th September, 2017. The House also requestedthem to incorporate capping of compensations andpenalties under the Act in line with the similarprovisions under the Drugs & Cosmetics Act in theCEA rules.

Agenda Item No. A - 2.: DGHS reaction towards IMAin the last National Council for CEA

The House was informed about the arrogant attitudeof the DGHS during the last meeting of the NationalCouncil for Clincial Establishments Act during whichhe refused to accept the decisions of the InterMinisterial Committee regarding the ClinicalEstablishments Act. The House authorised the HQs.to take necessary action as deemed fit in this regard.

Agenda Item No. A - 3.: No action on PNDT act:Government itself has gone for a special SLP insupreme court and has halted inter ministerialdecisions

The Addl. Secretary, MoHFW assured that in the nextmeeting of the Central Supervisory Board, theamendments suggested by IMA are being taken up.

Sex Selection: IMA is against Sex Selection in anyform and disciplinary and legal action will beinitiated against any IMA members found to beindulged in any such procedure.

Agenda Item No. A - 4.: Government not takingseriously regarding central act against violence

The Addl. Secretary, MoHFW assured that the CentralAct is in the process.

Agenda Item No. A - 5.: Capping of compensationclause still far from reality

46. Capping of compensation by medical professionunder CPA : The House personally requested theAddl. Secretary (Health) to incorporate provisionsin CEA rules so that the compensation related tomedical negligence is similar to provisions under theDrugs & Cosmetics Act.

Agenda Item No. A - 6.: Criminalization of medicalpractice practically in every law

The House noted with extreme concern about theissue and authorised the IMA HQs. to take necessaryaction as deemed fit.

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Agenda Item No. A - 7.: JIMA not reaching even theoffice bearers and projecting losses without sanction

Publication of JIMA:

It was decided that the IMA JIMA OutsourcingCommittee will continue to explore its options tooutsource JIMA

For the next 3 months, JIMA will continue to beprinted and published at Kolkata under directsupervision of Hony. Secretary General & Hony.Finance Secretary of IMA HQs.

The Editorial Board will be under the directsupervision of National President, HonorarySecretary General, Honorary Finance Secretary andfollowing five members nominated by the NationalPresident, namely National President (Elect), Dr RaviWankhedkar, Past National Presidents, Dr VinayAggarwal, Dr Ajay Kumar, Dr Sudipto Roy & Dr AMarthanda Pillai.

A minimum of 10,000 copies of good quality of JIMAshall be printed by the JIMA office at Kolkata duringthis period of 3 months and rest of the circulationwill depend on the money raised by JIMA for eachmonth of publication JIMA.

No funds to be provided by IMA for the same and noInvestments to be utilised either.

As regards the excess of expenditure over incomeby JIMA office for publication of the last few issuesof the publication, internal audit of JIMA accountswill be done by IMA HQs which shall ascertain andsubmit its report as to how JIMA has published 1.5lac copies with an excess of expenditure over itsincome. The loss will not be incurred byheadquarters.

Online version of JIMA will be managed by IMA KeralaState Branch. JIMA office to provide them necessarysoftcopies in open formats for every issue wellwithin time and also the JIMA website credentialsfor uploading and maintaining the JIMA issues.

IMA HEAD QUARTERS shall start a new journal by thename “IMA Journal” which will be the mouthpieceof IMA. The first issue of the same shall beinaugurated at the ensuing 76th meeting of theCentral Council of IMA and NATCON2017. The onlineversion of the same shall be managed by IMA HQs.

Readers of JIMA and IMA Journal to be awarded IMACredit Hours per Edition.

Agenda Item No. A - 8.: NMC likely to come inNovember inspite of all agitations and likely to bringAYUSH as back door entry

The House was informed that IMA has been fightingagainst the proposed NMC Bill. We have achievedpartial success. The House was of the opinion that it

should be withdrawn.

Agenda Item No. A - 9.: Exit test likely to beintroduced inpsite of all the representations by IMA

The House observed that all State branches aresentimental on this issue. Members were of theopinion that it should be withdrawn.

Agenda Item No. A - 10.: Most states allowing AYUSHto prescribe modern drugs

Crosspathy: The House was informed that thesuggestions of IMA to the Inter MinisterialCommittee have been accepted by them.

Agenda Item No. A - 11.: West Bengal ClinicalEstablishment act not community friendly

40. West Bengal Clinical Establishments Act: It wasresolved that the IMA West Bengal State Branch andits local branches shall file a case in Kolkata HighCourt against its Constitutional invalidity and requestfor the removal of the draconian points in the same.It was also resolved that IMA Bengal State Branch,along with all its branches shall peruse amendmentswith the government.

Agenda Item No. A - 12.: Karnataka clinicalestablishment act if comes will be like West BengalCEA

The House was informed that it has referred to theJoint Action Committee.

Agenda Item No. A - 13.: DGHS and National Councilfor CEA trying to allow non MBBS to sign path andmicro lab reports?


Agenda Item No. A - 14.: No uniform code for doctorsand medical establishments


Agenda Item No. A - 15.: MP who slapped a doctormade the Union Minister of skills

The House put on record its deepest anguish on theact of the Government and asked the HQs. to conveythe same to the Prime Minister’s office and Cabinet.

Agenda Item No. B - 1.: Minutes of the 217th meetingof the Central Working Committee held at Kolkataon April 15&16, 2017 and Action Taken thereon

The House noted the report and accepted & passedthe same after a few corrections.

Agenda Item No. B - 2.: Activity report of Dr RoyAbraham Kallivayalil, Senior National Vice President

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Agenda Item No. B - 3.: Activity report of Dr KPrakasam, National Vice President


Agenda Item No. B - 4.: Activity report of DrMahendra Choudhury, National Vice President


Agenda Item No. B - 5.: Activity Report of DrParmanand Prasad Pal, National Vice President, IMA


Agenda Item No. B - 6.: Success Stories and Activitiesof Team Digital IMA - Dr K K Aggarwal, NationalPresident, IMA and Dr R N Tandon, HonorarySecretary General, IMA


However, a few decisions as proposed were takenas follows:

All state and local branches are directed to make anofficial email ID starting with “ima.” followed by State/ Branch name. The password credentials of the sameshould be shared between the President andHonorary Secretary of the State/local branch with acopy to IMA Headquarters. The mobile numberlinked to this email id shall be that of the Secretaryof the State / local branch. This official email ID ofthe branch shall not change with the change of officebearers. The official IDs of headquarters arenp@imaindia.org and hsg@imaindia.org

IMA Doctor Logo : It was trademarked and now itneeds to be promoted amongst the members. IMArequested Economic Advisor, MoHFW to kindlyacknowledge it as it is patented by IMA only for usebyMBBS doctors. However, the House was informedthat an objection has been received from Indian RedCross Society that IMA cannot use the “+” sign as alogo for doctors practicing modern system ofmedicine. The House was informed that necessarysuitable action will be taken after taking legal advicein this regard.

IMA Emblem : The House noted with a thunderousapplaud that the IMA Logo was now patented andcannot be misused by anyone.

Any official WhatsApp Groups of IMA Wings /Schemes / State / Local Branches can be created bythe respective Honorary Secretary as the GroupAdmin having the name of the respective IMA Wing/ Scheme / State / Local Branch only on the approval

of the IMA HQs. Only such groups can use thepatented IMA logo and include the “IMA” word intheir names.

All state and local branches shall use the patentedIMA Logo to be made available on the website ofIMA with only the specified color, design andspecifications.

Only IMA HQs. shall endorse all health claimstatements as per laid down policy in this regard.Which involves inviting expressions of interest. NoIMA Wing / Scheme / State / Local Branch can endorseany health claim statement / product.

Existing IMA Blood Donations Policy shall now beIMA Blood Component Policy and linked to bloodcomponents

As a part of IMA Organ Donation initiative at least25,000 IMA members should pledge their organslatest by 27th November, 2017. IMA HQs. to takenecessary steps to ensure the same.

Bio medical waste rules: IMA shall come out with awhite paper on Bar code and liquid waste

IMA shall have a Constitution Cell which will be onthe lookout and shall study all the time boundGovernment orders, proposed amendments inGovernment Rules or Acts or Government proposednew Acts and bring the same to the knowledge ofthe leadership of IMA so that IMA views can besubmitted on them.

Report of MCI Study Group (Jacob Mathew, Pt.Parmanand Kataria Guidelines) were accepted andpassed by the House.

Report of the Study Group (Indian Medical services)constituted by President, MCI was accepted andpassed by the House.

Draft Report of the MCI Study Group with referenceto formulation of guidelines in the contextofmandate incorporated at Rule 8.6 of the Code ofmedical ethics Regulations 2002 was accepted andpassed bythe House.

Proposed IMA policy One Drug: one Company: OnePrice shall be followed with the government

The House approved the IMA decision and action topublish Community Health related advertisementspublished and planned to be published in majordailies in association with relevant stakeholders. TheHouse was informed that 14 community healthrelated advertisements have been published inIndian Express and 4 advertisements have beenpublished in Hindustan Times with the help of M/s.Omron.

All the public health and hygiene relatedagreements of IMA with companies like Omron,

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Hygia, State Bank Credit Cards, Antriksh, Asian Paints,MOCA and Willis Towers Watson Insurance BrokersIndia Pvt Ltd etc. were reported to the CWC whichapproved all of them.

Cuts & Commissions: IMA will not tolerate Cuts &Commissions in any form by medical professionalson Ethical grounds. IMA is for ethical practice.

Bio medical waste rules: IMA shall come out with awhite paper on Bar code and liquid waste

While discussing about the other publications ofIMA, it was informed that Starting from December,2017 issue, the IMA News shall run into 100 pages.All State Branches of IMA shall be allotted 2 pages inall the issues, in which they shall cover all theimportant news and information about theiractivities and schemes etc. since the last issue.

Agenda Item No. B - 7.: Report of Liaison with otherSpecialist Organizations (FOMA) - Dr R N Tandon,HSG, IMAIMA has the full support of all the stakeholders ofFOMA. The members advised that FOMA shouldmeet twice in a year so as to discuss and deliberateon all the current issues of the medical profession.


Agenda Item No. B - 8.: Minutes of meeting of AnnualState Leaders Review Meet and IMA National ActionCell meeting, August 27, 2017, New Delhi - Dr R NTandon, HSG, IMAOn the lines of IMA North East councils IMAheadquarters shall come out the other zonal councils

The House noted the Minutes and approved &passed the same.

Agenda Item No. B - 9.: IMA Doctor’s Day Awards

New IMA Awards: All new IMA Awards proposed byIMA HQs were approved by the House. It was alsoapproved to organise special Awards ceremoniesduring the State Leadership meet, CWC meetingsand Central Council meetings.

Agenda Item No. B - 10.: Minutes of meetings ofFinance Standing Committee & Building StandingCommittee held at Kolkata on April 15, 2017 - Dr V KMonga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA & Dr.Ashwini Kumar Dalmiya,Hony. Jt. Secy.The House approved the decision of the FinanceStanding Committee of IMA to invest in variousinvestment instruments approved by theCharityCommissioner of India.

The House noted the Minutes and the AccountsStatements and approved & passed the same.

Agenda Item No. B - 11.: Report of IMA HQ’s Buildingat New Delhi-Dr. Ashwini Kr. Dalmiya, Hony. Jt. Secy,

KolkataRegarding the issue of non payment of rent by oneof the tenants of IMA HQs. M/s. Arth Business NewsChannel, the House was informed that the matter issubjudice.


Agenda Item No. B - 12.: Report of IMA HQ’s Buildingat Kolkatta-Dr. Santosh Kumar Mandal,Hony. Jt. Secy,KolkataThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 13.: Report on Formation/Revival/Suspension/Merger/Change in name ofLocal Branches- Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Honorary JointSecretary.


Agenda Item No. B - 14.: Position of HFC andMembership - Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Honorary JointSecretary


Agenda Item No. B - 16.: Report of IMA College ofGeneral Practitioners - Dr R Gunasekaran, HonorarySecretary

IMA GP Retainer Ship Policy: The House agreed thatthe General Practitioners can be hired by families of5 members on retainer ship basis. Under such anagreement, the families will be provided:

1 OPD consultation per week,

1 monthly home visit and

Visits or treatments in case of emergencies.

As a measure to retain the General Practitioners, IMAto organise yearly program on “How to start a GPclinic” for the fresh graduates and Young Doctors.

Dr K K Kalra, C.E.O., IMA HQs. was requested tosuggest ways and means of popularising theFellowship ofIMA CGP so as to give it duerecognition. It would also help in appointment ofFellows of IMA CGP in speciality hospitals as FamilyMedicine Specialists and admission of their patientsaccordingly.

Procedures to be adopted to award IMA Credit hoursfor Fellowship of IMA CGP.

IMA Headquarters to investigate the existence ofthe IMA eVarsity. If the same is found to beprevalent, procedures to be initiated by the IMA HQs.to merge the same with IMA Headquarters.

IMA HQs. to investigate into the complaint of a CWCmember on the floor of the House, during the

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recently convened 218th meeting of theCWCregarding the running of 2 parallel IMA CGP Faculties/ Sub Faculties in the city of Hyderabad, Telanganaand authorised the IMA HQs. to take necessary actionas required in this regard.

The House noted the report of IMA CGP andapproved & passed the same.

Agenda Item No. B - 17.: Report of IMA Academy ofMedical Specialties - Dr. V S Rao, Honorary SecretaryFree membership of IMAAMS and IMACGP for thisyear will end on 27th December. No wings will collectany money for this membership. Rs 200 charged bywings shall be refunded.


Agenda Item No. B - 18.: Report of IMA Dr. AKN SinhaInstitute of Medical & Health Education andResearch - Dr Raman Kumar Verma, HonoraryExecutive SecretaryHonorary Director, IMA AKN Sinha Institute for theyear 20172018, Dr Rajan Sharma shall get in touchwith the concerned office bearers of all the Wingsand schemes of IMA and proposes the modalities ofa package system for members desirous ofsubscribing to all the Wings and schemes of IMA inone go. The same to be completed and submitted tothe IMA HQs. office before the ensuing 76th meetingof the Central Council of IMA so that the same canbe placed before it for necessary ratification.

In order to promote the various IMA Wings andschemes, it was approved that all candidatescontesting for the Elections to various posts of IMAHQs. and its Wings as per the Memorandum, Rulesand ByeLaws of the Association, must be a memberof all the schemes and relevant Wings of IMA inaddition to the existing prerequisites for therelevant posts. Necessary additions be made in theMemorandum, Rules and ByeLaws of the IndianMedical Association accordingly. This shall be madeapplicable from the next Elections of IMA HQs. andits Wings.


Agenda Item No. B - 19.: Report of Your Health -DrAshok Kumar Chatterjee, EditorThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 20.: Report of Apka Swasthya -Dr Sanjay Kumar Rai, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 21.: Report of IMA NSS Scheme-Dr. Yogendra S. Modi, Honorary Secretary


Agenda Item No. B - 22.: Report of IMA NPP Scheme-Dr Jayakrishnan A V, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 23.: Report of IMA Hospital Boardof India -Dr Jayesh Lele, Honorary SecretaryAll wings of IMA as included in the Memorandum,Rules and ByeLaws of IMA, including IMA HospitalBoard of India to have elected office bearers fromthis year. Three posts of IMA Hospital Board of India,namely, Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer to beelected as per relevant Rules and ByeLawsgoverning election of such posts


Agenda Item No. B - 24.: Report of IMA AcademicCouncil -Dr A Marthanda Pillai, ChairmanThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 25.: Report of IMA AccreditationCouncilOnly IMA HQs. can appoint Professors as per the laiddown policy in this regard. No Wing / Scheme / Branchcan appoint IMA Professors.

All IMA Wings / Schemes / State / Local Branches canorganise IMA CMEs only as per laid down policy byIMA HQs. Accreditation Council and IMA credit hoursshall be issued only by IMA headquarters. Thecharges for the same are available in the IMAAccreditation Policy as available on the website ofIMA.

The House authorised IMA HQs. to partner with otherorganisations to coorganise medical events as theirKnowledge partner.

IMA can let its logo be used by other organisationsand in turn will get 10% of the turnover of the eventsubject to the condition that the organisation andthe event is not beyond the aims and objectives ofIMA.

Agenda Item No. B - 26.: Report of IMA NationalHealth Scheme -Dr Alex Franklin, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 27.: Report of IMA NationalPension Scheme -Dr K V Devadas, Honorary SecretaryThe House noted the report and approved & passedthe same.

Agenda Item No. B - 28.: Report of IMA Junior Doctors’Network -Dr K M Abul Hasan, National Coordinator

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Students’ Network and IMA Junior Doctors’ Networkshall be included in the composition ofCentralWorking Committee and Central Council of IMA andshall be eligible to attend their respective meetingsin addition to the other official meetings of IMA.


Agenda Item No. B - 29.: Report of IMA MedicalStudents’ Network -Dr Sreejith N Kumar, NationalCoord

The House was informed that MBBS students arebeing given free medical books by IMA MaharashtraState Branch.

It was decided to adopt this as a National Project.Current project details may be obtained by IMA HQs.from IMA Maharashtra State and necessary actionbe taken accordingly.


Agenda Item No. B - 30.: Report of Election Tribunalformed at IMA HQs.to look into discrepancies duringthe conduction of Elections to the post of PresidentElect, DMA

The House noted the report and allowed the Tribunalto present its report to the Central Council of IMA atits ensuing 78th meeting to be held at Mumbai,Maharashtra on December 2728, 2017.

Agenda Item No. B - 31.: Report of Para MedicalCourses - Dr D. R. Rai, Dean, IMA ParamedicalCourses


Agenda Item No. B - 32.: Report of IMA Mediation,Conciliation and Grievances Redressal Cell- Dr ArunAgarwal, Chairman & Dr Y P Munjal, Co-Chairman


Agenda Item No. B - 33.: Report of IMA Initiative onSafe Sound - Dr C John Panicker, Coordinator


Agenda Item No. B - 34.: Report of IMA Initiative onPrevention of Diabetic Blindness- Dr NSD Raju


Agenda Item No. B - 35.: Report On Care of ElderlyProject- Dr Samuel Koshy


Agenda Item No. B - 36.: Report On Child SexualAbuse Project, Dr R N Tandon, Honorary SecretaryGeneral, IMA


Agenda Item No. B - 37.: Report of Internationalactivities


Agenda Item No. B - 38.: Branch Constitutions forApproval

The IMA HQs. was authorised to take necessary legalopinion on the Branch Constitutions received forapproval and approve them if found fit.

Agenda Item No. B - 43.: Any other matter with thepermission of the Chair

NATCON shall be hosted by a state and cohosted byall other states. All states shall contribute Rupeesone lakh each to the “IMA NATCON Fund” to bemaintained at IMA HQs. The Fund so collected bythe IMA HQs. shall be used for hosting the dinner/banquet/ awards ceremony. Henceforth, all theaudited accounts of the NATCON shall be providedby the organisers to the IMA HQs. who shall displaythe same on the IMA Website.

The House noted and approved the decision.

Agenda Item No. C: Finances of the Association(circulated separately)

The House noted the Financial reports and approved& passed the same.

After this the meeting ended with a vote of thanksto the Chair.


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Instructions issued:

· All National Past Presidents of IMA shall be givenNational Honour after their soul leaves theirphysical body.

· IMA Flag to fly half mast from the day of demisetill the day of last rites.

· All members of IMA to observe 2minutes’silence at the time of last rites of departedNational Presidents

· “Dr V C V Pillai Memorial Annual Address” shallbe delivered at the ensuing Installation ceremonyon 28th December, 2017 at Mumbai, Maharashtraas a part of the IMA Foundation Day and also at allsuch ceremonies in future.

· National Program “Physician’s health first”launched and the period 30th July to 5th Septemberevery year shall be observed as a period formedical checkups of all IMA members.

Agenda Item No. A - 1.: Non implementation of interministerial committee recommendations so far bythe government of India

“Dawn to Dusk Fast” was observed all over India from6am to 6 pm on October 2, 2017 at prominentlocations in all State and local branches, in a nonviolent structured manner. All local branchesorganized :

· Special General Body Meetings in accordancetheir constitutional quorum at the abovedesignated place any time during 2ndOctober,2017

· Passed the resolution provided by IMA HQs. andposted and emailed that resolution along with aletter to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India (Lettertemplate provided to the States and localBranches by IMA HQs.) with a copy to ChiefMinister of their respective State/LocalAdministrative Head

Agenda Item No. A - 7.: JIMA not reaching even theoffice bearers and projecting losses without sanction

JIMA outsourcing committee revived and met.Procedures revived to outsource the publication ofJIMA

Instructions issued for internal audit of JIMAaccounts in connection with the excess ofexpenditure over income by JIMA office forpublication of the last few issues of the publicationwhich shall ascertain and submit its report as to howJIMA has published 1.5 lac copies with an excess ofexpenditure over its income.

ACTION TAKEN REPORT ON THE MINUTES OF THE 218th MEETING OF THE CENTRAL WORKINGCOMMITTEE OF IMA HELD AT NEW DELHI ON SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2017

Procedures being initiatied by IMA HEAD QUARTERSto start a new journal by the name “IMA Journal”which will be the mouthpiece of IMA. The first issueof the same shall be inaugurated at the ensuing 76th

meeting of the Central Council of IMA and NATCON2017. The online version of the same shall bemanaged by IMA HQs.

Readers of JIMA and IMA Journal to be awarded IMACredit Hours per Edition.

Agenda Item No. A - 9.: Exit test likely to beintroduced inpsite of all the representations by IMA

“Suno Sansad”, an initiative by the Medical Students’Network of IMA initiated on December 1719, 2017under with the representatives of IMA MSN met theMembers of Parliament from their States andsensitized them about the issue of NEXT.

Agenda Item No. A - 12.: Karnataka clinicalestablishment act if comes will be like West BengalCEA

Complete support was given to the leaders of IMAKarnataka State Branch in their agitation against theimplementation of the draconian Karnataka StateClinical Establishments Act. The National PresidentElect, Dr Ravi Wankhedkar and Honorary SecretaryGeneral, Dr R N Tandon were present personallyduring the agitation.

Agenda Item No. B - 6.: Success Stories and Activitiesof Team Digital IMA - Dr K K Aggarwal, NationalPresident, IMA and Dr R N Tandon, HonorarySecretary General, IMA

All state and local branches are directed to make anofficial email ID starting with “ima.” followed by State/ Branch name. The password credentials of the sameshould be shared between the President andHonorary Secretary of the State/local branch with acopy to IMA Headquarters. The mobile numberlinked to this email id shall be that of the Secretaryof the State / local branch. This official email ID ofthe branch shall not change with the change of officebearers. The official IDs of headquarters arenp@imaindia.org and hsg@imaindia.org

All States and Wings informed that any officialWhatsApp Groups of IMA Wings / Schemes / State /Local Branches can be created by the respectiveHonorary Secretary as the Group Admin having thename of the respective IMA Wing / Scheme / State /Local Branch only on the approval of the IMA HQs.Only such groups can use the patented IMA logo andinclude the “IMA” word in their names.

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IMA Logo to be made available on the website ofIMA with only the specified color, design andspecifications.

Constitution Cell of IAM constituted which will beon the lookout and shall study all the time boundGovernment orders, proposed amendments inGovernment Rules or Acts or Government proposednew Acts and bring the same to the knowledge ofthe leadership of IMA so that IMA views can besubmitted on them.

Community Health related advertisements beingpublished very frequently in major dailies inassociation with relevant stakeholders.

Bio medical waste rules: IMA White paper on Barcode and liquid waste being prepared.

Agenda Item No. B - 7.: Report of Liaison with otherSpecialist Organizations (FOMA) - Dr R N Tandon,HSG, IMA

FOMA stakeholders being contacted very frequentlyon various issues related to the medical profession.

Agenda Item No. B - 10.: Minutes of meetings ofFinance Standing Committee & Building StandingCommittee held at Kolkata on April 15, 2017 - Dr V KMonga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA & Dr.Ashwini Kumar Dalmiya,Hony. Jt. Secy.

The possibilities of of IMA to invest in variousinvestment instruments approved by the CharityCommissioner of India are being explored.

Agenda Item No. B - 11.: Report of IMA HQ’s Buildingat New Delhi-Dr. Ashwini Kr. Dalmiya, Hony. Jt. Secy,Kolkata

M/s. Arth Business News Channel are in regulartouch with IMA HQs. and efforts are being made toclear their outstanding dues. A sum of Rs. 5 lakhsreceived from M/s. Arth Business new channel.

Agenda Item No. B - 16.: Report of IMA College ofGeneral Practitioners - Dr R Gunasekaran, HonorarySecretary

Dr K K Kalra, C.E.O., IMA HQs. is in the process ofpreparing the suggestions on ways and means ofpopularising the Fellowship of IMA CGP so as to giveit due recognition.

Procedures being formalised to be adopted to awardIMA Credit hours for Fellowship of IMA CGP.

IMA Headquarters investigating the existence of theIMA eVarsity. Efforts are underway to merge thesame with IMA Headquarters.

IMA HQs. investigating into the complaint of a CWCmember regarding the running of 2 parallel IMA CGPFaculties / Sub Faculties in the city of Hyderabad,Telangana. The second entity is called “College ofGeneral Practitioners (CGP)” and is run in the IMABuilding at Hyderabad by some members of IMAHyderabad.

Agenda Item No. B - 18.: Report of IMA Dr. AKN SinhaInstitute of Medical & Health Education andResearch - Dr Raman Kumar Verma, HonoraryExecutive Secretary

Honorary Director, IMA AKN Sinha Institute for theyear 20172018, Dr Rajan Sharma has submitted hisreport and the same is being placed before theCentral Council.

On ratification of Central Council, instructions willbe given that in order to promote the various IMAWings and schemes, all candidates contesting for theElections to various posts of IMA HQs. and its Wingsas per the Memorandum, Rules and ByeLaws of theAssociation, must be a member of all the schemesand relevant Wings of IMA in addition to the existingprerequisites for the relevant posts. Necessaryadditions will be made in the Memorandum, Rulesand ByeLaws of the Indian Medical Associationaccordingly. This shall be made applicable from thenext Elections of IMA HQs. and its Wings.

Agenda Item No. B - 28.: Report of IMA Junior Doctors’Network -Dr K M Abul Hasan, National Coordinator

On ratification of the Central Council, the Chairmanand Secretary of the IMA Medical Students’ Networkand IMA Junior Doctors’ Network shall be includedin the composition of Central Working Committeeand Central Council of IMA and shall be eligible toattend their respective meetings in addition to theother official meetings of IMA.

Agenda Item No. B - 43.: Any other matter with thepermission of the Chair

Necessary instructions issued to State Branches tocohost NATCONand contribute Rupees one lakheach to the “IMA NATCON Fund” to be maintainedat IMA HQs and the Fund to be used for hosting thedinner/ banquet/ awards ceremony. However, veryfew States have deposited the amount for theMumbai NATCON.

Dr R N TandonHonorary Secretary General

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Agenda Item No. B-4

Report from Dr Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, IMA Senior National Vice-President

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a summary of my activities, sincethe last meeting of the Central Council

December 2016- April 2017

1. Attended the All India Medical ConferenceAmritsar, Dec 2728, 2016 and the swearingin of the new office bearers.

2. Participated in the IMA leaders meeting atNew Delhi on Jan 78, 2017.

3. “Meet the Press” at Kottayam (the Presscapital of Kerala) highlighting the activitiesof IMA, and warning on the dangers of theNational Exit Examination, National MedicalCommission and the assault on doctors andhospitals. This received wide spread newscoverage.

4. Inaugurated the IMA Protest Day againstNEXT at Thiruvalla, Kerala on Feb 1, 2017. The protestdharna and rally were attended by nearly 1,000medial students and IMA members. In his address,Roy Abraham Kallivayalil, National Vice President,IMA called upon the Central Govt and the UnionMinistry of Health to abandon its plans to bring inthe National Exit Examination (NEXT) for MBBSgraduates, after their internship. He said, this is ahighly retrogressive step and will bring severe harmto public health. NEXT will make a mockery of theUniversities which conduct the MBBS examinationsand the Medical Council of India who is empoweredto supervise and regulate at every stage of themedical education. India already has 30% shortageof qualified doctors in modern medicine. Illconceived moves like this will further aggravate thissituation. Dr Roy said, Hon Supreme Court hasalready brought in the National Eligibility cumEntrance Test (NEET) for all Medical Colleges in thecountry now. This will ensure quality of admissions.Then onwards it is the responsibility of theUniversities and MCI to maintain the higheststandards of medical education. Medicalexaminations are not merely theory or MCQ basedbut with an integral and most important clinical examcomponent. Thus more than theoretical knowledge,clinical skills are crucial for a young doctor. To haveNEXT which is merely MCQ based as a substitute willendanger the lives of common man. IMA is notagainst a common final MBBS examination for allmedical students across the country. It appears,there is a hidden agenda in this to promote the

interests of foreign medical graduates (FMGs). Sincetheir training and standards are questionable, theyare now required to appear for a screening test. IfNEXT comes, they will be spared from this screeningtest and it will facilitate their interests. IMA fullyendorsed the stand of medical students, ‘Say No toNEXT’. He said, IMA will also staunchly oppose themove to bring in the National Medical Commission(NMC which is a nominated body) to substitute theMCI which is an elected body, to safeguard theinterests of public health. Dr AJ John, President IMATiruvalla presided. Dr A Ramalingam (State Treasurer,IMA), Dr TJ Varghese, Dr Prasad Cheeramattom, DrKurian Oommen, Dr Jayachandran Nair, Deejo Jose(Chairman, Pushpagiri Medical College Union), MsKarishma George and others spoke on the occasion.Later the medical students and doctors conducted aprotest march at Tiruvalla. ‘The Hindu’, one of India’smost influential news papers carried a detailedreport on this. The link is http://www.thehindu.com/todayspaper/tpnational/tpke ra la/ IM Aask s Ce nt ret oabandonNEX T/article17131106.ece

5. Participated and spoke at the SWC of IMAKerala on Feb 19, 2017.

6. Addressed public meeting on March 9 atPalai, organised the Kidney Foundation ofIndia.

7. Spoke at the IMA Kerala VAJRA Yatra led byState President Dr VG Pradeep Kumar andState Secretary Dr Samuel Koshy on March10, 2017

8. Addressed Palai IMA on March 28, 2017 onthe various schemes and programmes ofNational IMA.

9. Maintained close links with the States ofTamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujaratand Goa (under charge) especially throughemail.

10. World Health Day: April 7. Major programmeswere initiated on the WHO theme “Depression, Let’s talk”

11. V isited WHO Geneva and InternationalOrganisation on Migration (IOM) Jan 2225,2017 and held discussions with them

12. Other international events: AddressedMinkowska Centre Paris Jan 1820, 2017,WPA on Feb 711, at Cuenca Ecuador and atFlorence March 30 April 1, 2017.

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April- Sept, 2017)

Summary of my activities.

1. Participated in Delhi Chalo on 6.6.17 fromRajghat and spoke at the the concludingmeeting. Spread awareness about the needfor this agitation.

2. Role of Mental Health in the new world:Under the auspices of IMA and WASP, we hadorganised a Special Lecture. Dr MS Alexander,consultant psychiatrist, Leeds and Fellow of theFaculty of Forensic Psychiatry of the Royal Collegeof Psychiatrists, UK said, mental health andpsychiatry have a very important and crucial role inshaping the new world in the current millennium.He was delivering a Special Lecture at the Dept ofPsychiatry, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences,Tiruvalla yesterday. Use of new technology formanagement of emotional disorders by using Skype,interviewing the patient via internet, writingelectronic prescription through computers enablingpeople to have unlimited access to the medicalfacility without ever going in person are beingemployed in many parts of the world. Using socialmessaging tools and media such as Twitter and TVfor patients to contact doctors from far off placeseven without seeing them face to face are alreadygetting in place. Facebook and Whatsapp are beingincreasingly used by doctors to communicate amongthemselves. He also wanted students to take upPsychiatry as the first choice for postgraduation.They may go to USA, UK, Europe, Australia and otherparts of the world to learn the best practices in thosecountries, share the cultural values of India andcome to back here. He said Psychiatry is gaining moreprominence in international sports and games withmany world champions depending on Psychiatry formental strength and confidence. He lauded thePushpagiri and said, it has become a mecca fortraining psychiatrists in India. Dr Roy AbrahamKallivayalil, President of the World Association ofSocial Psychiatry and National Vice President of IMA,in his presidential address said, inclusion of mentalhealth as one among the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals is a land mark. Goal 3.4specifically seeks to promote mental health andwellbeing and goal 3.5 calls for strengthening theprevention and treatment of substance abuse,including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use ofalcohol. These are vital steps for a brave newworld.Dr Joice Geo and Dr Soumya P Thomas alsospoke at the meeting.’The Hindu’, one of India’s mostinfluential newspapers, carried a special reporttoday entitled ‘’Role of mental health in new worldstressed” . Please see the link http://

www.thehindu.com/todayspaper/tpnational/tpkerala/roleofmentalheal thinnewworldstressed/article19339551.ece

3. Anti Substance Abuse Campaign: wasinaugurated at Palai, Kottayam on 3.8.17.Large number of students, teachers andvolunteers from NGOs participated.

4. Inaugurated the ‘IMA Black Day’ protestmeeting at Pushpagiri Medical College,Pathanamthitta Dist, Kerala on 27.4.17 andaddressed medical students and Faculty.

5. Participated and presented paper at the 9th

Geneva Conference on ‘Person CenteredMedicine’ held at the Geneva University onMay 810, 2017. Dr Ketan Desai, PresidentWMA, was the Chief Guest. The Conferenceattended by delegates from all over theworld.

6. We had organised ”Onam Family & Carers’Programme” at the Dept of Psychiatry,Pushpagiri Insititute of Medical Sciences,Thiruvalla, Kerala in association with IndianMedical Association on 29th August 2017. FrMathew Vadakkekuttu (Administrator,Pushpagiri) inaugurated the event. Prof RNSharma ( Professor & HOD, Dept ofMedicine) delivered the Onam Message.Prof Roy Kallivayali l (National V icePresident, IMA) presided. Thomas Pariyarath(Director, IT), Dr Joice Geo, Dr Liza Vargheseand Dr Soumya P Thomas spoke. Onam giftswere presented to the carers and familymembers There was also be a CulturalProgramme in which Users, Caregivers andFamily members participated.

7. Indian Psychiatric Society National Meet atV isakhpatnam. August 1112, 2017.Participated and spoke as the Guest ofHonour and released the souvenir.

8. Participated as National VP and spoke on theactivities of National IMA at the StateWorking Committee of IMA Kerala at Calicuton 14.5.17 and at Alwaye on 13.8.17.Addressed Palai IMA on 31.8.17 on thevarious programmes of National IMA.


10. Other international events: Presented paperat the World Congress of Psychotherapy,Paris July 2428, 2017, WPA Congress atVilnius, Lithuania, May 26, 2017.

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September- December 2017

Summary of activities

1. Participated at the Central WokingCommittee of IMA at New Delhi on Sept 2324, 2017, presented report of the NationalVP and a special report on mental healthissues in the country and its solutions.

2. Participated as National VP and spoke on theactivities of National IMA at the StateWorking Committee of IMA Kerala at Aluvaon 29.10.17 and the State officebearers’meet at Trivandrum on 10.12.17 and spokeon the various programmes of National IMA.

3. Addressed the State Council and the StateConference of IMA Kerala held atKodungalloor on Nov 1112, 2017

4. Addressed meetings of IMA branches at Palaion Oct 24th and Kottayam on November 9,2017 spoke about National IMA and installedthe officebearers.

5. Addressed the meeting of Indian PsychiatricSociety, South India Zone at Vythiri on Oct2728, 2017.

6. Addressed the World Congress of MentalHealth organised by the World Federationfor Mental Health at New Delhi, Nov 25,2017.

7. Received WFMH International Award 2017for Meritorious Services to the cause ofMental Health from the President of Indiaon Nov 2, 2017 at New Delhi.

8. Held discussions on mental health issues inIndia with Ms Priti Sudan, Secretary, Healthand Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Health,Govt of India as member of the internationaldelegation.

9. Addressed IASP conference at Guwahati,Nov 1719, 2017.

10. Presided the observance of World MentalHealth Month at Pushpagiri Medical College,Tiruvalla organised in association with theWorld Association of Social Psychiatry andthe Indian Medical Association and said,experience at the workplace is a determiningfactor in the wellbeing of people. Asupportive work environment will lead tonot only physical and mental health but also

increased productivity and efficiency. 10%of people suffer from common mentaldisorders like Depression and Anxiety.Unhealthy work environment will worsenthis and will lead to absenteeism, lostproductivity and substance abuse. Everyinstitution should develop a healthy workculture laying emphasis on stressmanagement. Burnout at the workplace isbecoming a major problem in many countriesincluding India. This is often due toemotional exhaustion resulting fromexcessive demands at the workplace. Alsosaid employers, employees and communitygate keepers should work together withpsychiatrists and other mental healthprofessionals to address this.


12. Other international events: Presented paperat the World Congress of Psychiatry, BerlinOct 812, 2017 and WPA meeting atGeneva,Dec 13, 2017.

Let me specially thank President Dr KK, SecretaryGeneral Dr Tandon, President Elect Dr Wankhedekar,Dr Marthanda Pillai and all my colleagues for the helpand support.

Prof Roy Abraham Kallivayalil

National Senior V icePresident, Indian MedicalAssociation

Let me specially thank President Dr KK, SecretaryGeneral Dr Tandon, Dr Marthanda Pillai and all mycolleagues for the help and support.

Prof Roy Abraham Kallivayalil

National Senior VicePresident, IMA

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Agenda Item No. B-6

The time flies fast. its almost 1 year since installationas National Vice President at Amritsar in Dec. 2016looking back the year was full of activities at Nationallevel with great 'Chalo Delhi' march. It was a greatshow of unity. Through out the year awareness ofdoctors about the implications of unthought,nonpractical and offendious stricutures an laws thegovt is trying to put on medical proffesion statwasvery encouraging. it brought the need of unitingtogether. the support and co operation of localbranches and at state level was very good, for thiscommunication with state level officials, visits tovarious local branches was made through out the lastfew months.

After the hectic and eventful quarter, this 2 3months witnessed few programs. The noteworthywas 'Dharna' on 2nd Oct. 2017 this Gandhi Jayanti wascelebrated by following Mahatma's foot steps. All

Report from IMA Dr Mahendra Chaudhari, National Vice-President, IMA

India level 'Dharna' were held by every branch atprominent localities in order to bring awarenessamong people about the unjust laws and problemsfaced by most noble profession and the onlyprofession which help the society day in and day outat any hour of the day or night. A strong message tothe Govt. in peaceful and Gandhian way.

It was the year where information about the lawsand regulation the Govt. tries to impose on medicalfaculty was passed on and the implication of theselaws were brought to notice. They were motivatedfor action and the need for unity and participationwas emphasized. I am satisfied with which theseefforts will surely bear fruits of success in future.

Dr. Mahendra H ChaudhariNational Vice President IMA headqurter

Agenda Item No. B-9Minutes of the FOMA Meetng held on 6th April 2017 at 10.00 am at Hotel Lalit, New Delhi

A meeting of the FOMA was held on 6thApril 2017 at10.am at Hotel Lalit, New Delhi.

The following members were presentDr K K Aggarwal, National President, IMADr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMADr Ravi Wankhedkar, National PresidentElectDr R V Asokan, Chairman, IMA Hospital Board of IndiaDr Shiva K Misra, President, Association of Surgeonsof IndiaDr H Pai, Secretary General, FOGSIDr B B Mishra, President, Indian Society ofAnaesiologistsDr Pritam Gupta, The Association of Physicians ofIndia (API)Dr Santhan Gopal, President, All IndiaOphthalmological SocietyDr Rajeev Sood, President, Urological Society of IndiaDr Bhupender Ahuja, President, Indian Radiology &Imaging Association (IRIA)Dr Lalal Bharti, National Neonatology Forum of India(NNF)Dr Rajiv Garg, ESI, DelhiDr Ashiwini Dalmiya, Hony. Joint Secretary, IMADr Dinesh Sahai, Hony. Asstt. Secretary, IMADr N V Kamat, Principal Advisor, IMADr Girish Tyagi, Registrar, Delhi Medical Council

Honorary. Secretary General, IMA, Dr R N Tandon

adorned the National President, Dr K K Aggarwal withthe Presidential Medallion.

The meeting was inaugurated by Dr K K Aggarwal,National President, IMA and lighting the lamp alongwith Dr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMAand representatives of other Medical Associations.

Dr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMAwelcomed all the members.

Flag Salutation & IMA Prayer were read by Dr R NTandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMA

The meeting started with self introduction by all theparticipants.

Issues discussed:-1. Assault on medical profession – Is there a need

for introspection.2. Need for initiatives of Community Service for a

humane face of medical profession.3. Clinical Establishments Act4. Contentious issues in the PC PNDT Act5. Insurance and CGHS Rates6. Crosspathy7. IMA’s schemes which are beneficial for medical

professionals.

During the meeting, the following key points weredecided by the members:-1. IMA will be the mother NGO for FOMA

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(Federation of Medical Associations).2. All major primary medical Associations in India

will be invited to become an Hony. Member ofFOMA through their President/Secretary/theirnominee for action committee.

3. IMA FOMA members will meet atleast twice in ayear.

4. National President of IMA will be the Presidentof FOMA and Hony. Secretary General will be theSecretary of FOMA.

5. The Presidents of various Organizations/Associations shall be the member of ManagementBoard and all the Secretary Generals of variousOrganizations/Associations will be the membersof the Executive Board of IMA FOMA.

6. IMA will provide local hospitality for all themeetings and the travel arrangements shall bemade by the respective Organizations/Associations.

7. IMA FOMA will have the IMA FOMA Actioncommittee with representatives of all theOrganizations/Associations.

8. IMA FOMA shall work on national issues ofimportance to medical profession.

9. IMA FOMA shall come out with Declarations/Statements/White Papers/Policies, StandardTreatment Guidelines etc. on regular basisendorsed by all the Organizations/Associations.

10.IMA FOMA Action Committee will interact withGovt. of India, Ministry of Health on regular basison subject of common interest.

11.IMA FOMA shall create a local Google group tocommunicate on daily basis with all its members.

12.IMA FOMA will come out with joint initiativeswith individual Organizations/ Associations andalso group of organizations under FOMA onvarious health issues.

Following Resolutions were made during the IMAFOMA Meeting. It was resolved that:· IMA FOMA Action Committee has Zero tolerance

for cuts and commissions and unethical practicesby its members.

· Issues of common interest will be taken up by IMAFOMA Joint Action Committee

· Any member indulging in female feticide & sexselection, his /her primary memberships will besuspended/terminated by FOMA members.

· IMA FOMA will write to the govt. for uniform payscales and suitable infrastructures for Govt. &Private hospitals.

· AYUSH doctors cannot be allowed to prescribeSchedule H, H1 & XDrugs.

· Inter Ministerial Committee meeting report bepersuaded by all for early implementation.

· Central Govt. should come out with Central Law

on Violence against Doctors.· Criminalization of medical practice is not

acceptable to the medical association unless thereis clear cut intent to harm the patient or presenceof mens rhea.

· Professional autonomy must be maintained andGovernment’s move to bring National MedicalCommission Bill should be challenged and insteadIndian Medical Council Act should be suitablyamended.

· There should be a common MBBS final exam andnot NEXT Exam

Delhi Declaration – 20171. The Federation of Medical Associations (FOMA)

stands for ethical practice of medicine and willhave zero tolerance for unethical practices. Anypayment where a service is not involved will bedeemed unethical.

2. Sex selection and female foeticide leading toconviction will invite disciplinary action. Anymembers, so convicted, will forfeit themembership of all FOMA organisations.

3. FOMA advocates decriminalisation of medicalpractice. All legislations from IPC to POCSOshould recognise absence of mens rhea inmedical practice and jurisdiction of criminalprosecution of medical practice and medicalnegligence has to be discontinued.

4. Doctors should be provided a singleaccountability window withdrawing thejurisdiction of multiple forums.

5. Practice of modern medicine and prescriptionof modern medicine drugs shall vest only withdoctors of modern medicine.

6. FOMA demands that Central legislation againstviolence on doctors, staff and hospitals beenacted.

7. FOMA reiterates that the professional autonomyof MCI has to be retained. While amendmentsto the IMC Act are essential, NMC isunacceptable.

8. FOMA endorses a common All India Final MBBSExam and reject NEXT.

9. Standard Treatment Guidelines will emanatefrom the professional organisations.

10. Clinical Establishments Act has to be hospitalfriendly eschewing Licence Raj for accreditation.

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Agenda Item No. B-10

· It was resolved to invite one member fromeach FOMA Specialty Organization to the CentralCouncil Meeting and provide them localhospitality.· Headquarters will budget Rs ten lac everyyear for FOMA activities· IMA will be the mother NGO for FOMA(Federation of Medical Associations).· All major primary medical Associations inIndia will be invited to become an Hony. Memberof FOMA through their President/Secretary/theirnominee for action committee.· IMA FOMA members will meet atleasttwice in a year.· National President of IMA or one of thePast President will be the President of FOMA andHony. Secretary General will be the Secretary ofFOMA.· The Presidents, Secretaries and ActionCommittee Nominee of various Organizations/Associations shall be the member of ManagementBoard· IMA will provide local hospitality for all themeetings and the travel arrangements shall bemade by the respective Organizations/Associations.· IMA FOMA shall work on national issues ofimportance to medical profession.· IMA FOMA shall come out withDeclarations/Statements/White Papers/Policies,Standard Treatment Guidelines etc. on regularbasis endorsed by all the Organizations/Associations.· IMA FOMA Action Committee will interactwith Govt. of India, Ministry of Health on regularbasis on subject of common interest.· IMA FOMA shall create a local Googlegroup to communicate on daily basis with all itsmembers.IMA FOMA will come out with joint initiatives withindividual Organizations/ Associations and alsogroup of organizations under FOMA on varioushealth issues.

IMA-FOMA Meeting:An emergency Action group meeting of IMAfollowed by an emergency meeting of Indian MedicalAssociation Federation of Medical Associations ofIndia was held in IMA Headquarters on 26/04/2017 todiscuss the emergent situation on generic drugs.

IMA-FOMA DELHI RESOLUTIONS(IMA- Federation of Medical Associations of India)

Prescription of Generic Name of the Drugs by

Report of Liaison with other Specialist Organizations (FOMA) - Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA

Medical ProfessionalsIMAFOMA appreciates Hon’ble Prime Minister, ShriNarendra Modi’s concern about the availability,accessibility and affordability of quality economicaldrugs to the society.1. The judgement to choose a rational drug and itsformat vests only with the Registered MedicalPractitioners. This right of the medical profession issacrosanct.2. IMA FOMA also wants the Government tostrengthen Quality control mechanisms to ensureadherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)for patient safety.3. For a rational prescription, doctors should choosedrugs generic-generic or generic - brand based onquality, efficacy and economy and write legibly andpreferably in capital letters.4. IMAFOMA recommends that Governmentshould ban differential pricing of a drug underdifferent brand names (genericgeneric, generictrade or generic brand) by one company. (onechemical drug, one company, one prise)5. IMA FOMA will be meeting the President ofMCI, Union Health Minister and Prime Minister ofIndia about the views of the medical fraternity onthis issue. All the constituent members of IMAFOMAshall communicate these IMAFOMA DelhiResolutions to its members.ReferenceMCI Ethics Regulations Clause No. 1.5 states “ Allphysicians SHOULD prescribe medicines with genericnames, legibly and preferably in capital lettersandhe or she SHALL ensure rational prescription anduse of drugs” List of Associations which attended the FOMAmeetingIndian Medical Association, All IndiaOphthalmological Society, Urological Society ofIndia, Geriatric Society of India, Indian Radiology &Imaging Association, Indian Academy ofEchocardiography, Heart Care Foundation of India,Cardiological Society of India, Association ofSurgeons of India, Indian Psychiatric Society, DelhiPsychiatrist Society, Indian OrthopaedicAssociation, The Federation of Obstetric &Gynaecological Societies of India, IndianAssociation of Dermatologists, Venereologists andLeprologists, Association of Physicians of India,Indian Academy of Echocardiography, FFPAIA,

Dr R N TandonHonorary Secretary General, IMA

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A meeting of the IMA Action Committee and StateLeadership of IMA was held on April 2, 2107 at IMAHqrs.

Attendance was as per the attendance register.

The dignitaries were invited to the dais.

Then Hony Secretary General, IMA Dr R N Tandon,Honorary Secretary General, IMA adorned theNational President, Dr K K Aggarwal with thePresidential Medallion.

The National President then called the meeting toorder and requested Dr R N Tandon to start themeeting.

IMA Prayer and Flag Salutation

Dr R N Tandon then, requested the members presentto stand up for the IMA Prayer followed by the FlagSalutation. The same was duly invoked

The House then stood up to pay their tributes to thecontribution to Late Dr Ashit Baran Choudhury,President, IMA Nagaland State branch and thosemembers of the Association who had departed fortheir heavenly abode since last meeting of CentralWorking Committee Meeting of IMA he contributionof the departed members

Dr R V Asokan, Chairman, IMA Action Committeeinformed the house that AIMA Action Committeewas held on 1st April 2017 at IMA House New Delhion the following issues and Objectives.

Issues:· Violence against doctors and health care staff in

hospitals· NMC and NEXT· Criminal prosecution, conviction and sentence

in medical practice and medical negligence· Crosspathy· Clinic Establishment Act 2010 and WB CEA

passed.

Objectives· Central Hospital Protection Law· To protect the interest of clinics, small and

medium hospitals especially run by doctors· STOP NMC Amend MCINO to NEXT· Exclusion of medical practice and negligence

from prosecution under criminal law· Mixo pathy: No collocation No cross reference

No integration of systems of medicines.

He informed the House about the followingResolution passed in the IMA Action Committee held

on 1-4-2017· All national issues needs to be dealt with IMA

Hqr and course of action will be decided by IMAHQ.

· All the State issues which have national impacthave to informed to IMA the same shall be dealtwith the directions of IMA Hq

· Any State consensus shall have majorityconsensus of all the local branches

· Any National consensus will have consensusamong the states and the CWC members.

· In all national issues IMA shall be binding.· To decide that national /State issue we wlii taken

up the consensus among the CWC members andstate final course of action will be decided bythe IMA Action Committee.

· If any state branch refuses to follow thedirections of IMA Hq the same shall be referredto IMA GRIVIANCE CELL

· All official communications to the IMA Hqshould only be through email ar papercommunication and not through social media.

· IMA Hq will also take additional issue suo moto· All action through IMA Action committee will

address to Patient Friendliness Initiative.

Dr R V Asokan informed the House about the actionplan of next three months i.e for April, May and Juneas mentioned above.

IMA View Points As passed in the President andSecretaries Meet and National Action CommitteeMeeting and approved by the National President on1st and 2nd April 20171. It was passed that IMA HQ will launch a Torch

and every State Branch, IMA by Turn will organizea Torch Circulation Function from one state toanother to highlight the issues of the doctors atnational level. The torch will be designed by DrRavi Wankhedkar, National President, Elect, IMA

2. All the important decisions of the country ofevery state of IMA shall be sensitized andinvolved.

3. It was also decided that spokesman should betrained person so that he can easily handle themedia.

4. All the national torch movement respectiveState / Local Branches are advised to follow thestandard protocol to be given by IMA Hqrs

5. All the important decisions of the country ofevery state shall be sensitized and involved.

Minutes of the meeting of State Leadership of IMAheld at IMA House, IP Marg, New Delhi on 2nd April, 2017

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6. Parliamentary Committee wing of IMA headedby Dr Sanjay Jaiswal, Member of Parliament maybe activated and they should be sensitized allthe subjects of doctors of IMA

7. Similar exercise should be done at State andLocal level

8. Through Face Book Live we should have seriesof communications skill training of our IMAdoctors. IMA Hqrs will announce the date andtime. The whole skill procedures training willbe available on FB live. Members can see it canalso ask questions and correspondent also.

9. IMA through the registry may come out with adocument and also work on it whether the causeof violence is preventable or not.

10. IMA should come out with a standard medicaland surgical consent applicable to both in OPDand indoor which will talk about a great detailsabout all possible including unexplainedsudden cardiac death and patient should alsoaware about the treatment.

11. Regarding suggestions of self defensemechanism IMA shall invite suggestions forpersonal safety measures which can be tried andtrusted by various branch and IMA will act on itan come out with national policy

12. IMA shall have a centralized 1012 videos on thesubject of violence for script writing

13. Every State must create awareness about therare disease

14. Proactively for PR or advertisement should bedone by the respective state branch.

15. Regarding every case of violence, ActionCommittee of that particular Branch through theState immediately do work on it and find outthe facts and submit to the state to pass to IMANation Hq and same will be upload on IMAWebsite and report will be submitted to Ministryimmediately.

16. App shall be created for Violence and whateverfund will be required will be sanction as anspecial case.

17. As soon as possible IMA Hqrs through its legalteam shall send a standard complaint letterwhich will have all the sections and same willsubmit to the police station immediately.

18. In every case of surgery no surgery is risky thereis nothing like zero risk. Always say low risk,moderate risk and high risk

19. It was decided to go with virtual autopsy by whichhealth personnel can save him/her self and cantake the police in to confident.

20. Court violet which is NEBH passed violet thatapproved court may be uniformly used byeverybody. World Court Violet will be promoted

at National Level.21. Regarding National Action Committee, the

Chairman of National Protection ProfessionScheme may be coopted.

22. The National Committee IMA shall come out withdefinition of professional negligence andcriminalization of medical practice which itdefine or it is proposed or resolved unless thereis an intent or mean rea it is not a criminalnegligence. Suspension of license of doctor is acriminal judgement

23. All states of IMA shall file RTI to the concerneddepartment to find out how many Cases are filledin the last two years.

24. A standard poster shall be created by IMAregarding the hospital the protection billalongwith all languages translation so that it canready made available on the web site of IMA.Once we have received English translation therespected states are requested to translate itand sent to IMA Hqrs so that we can have alltype of material available on IMA Website.

25. After the consensus of members of IMA aboutthe Poster, the postal shall be declared asNational Poster

26. Try to get these posters also pasted in policestation with their due permission.

27. Criminalization of medical practice in every lawin the country must by exercised by IMA shouldbe our main opposition and we opposed WestBengal CEA segment which talks aboutcriminalization and jail to the doctor and it willnot be acceptable to IMA

28. Any national lever, we will oppose every centrallaw or every state law where doctors are treatedas criminal.

29. Indian Medical Association does not want anydifferentiation between government andprivate sector.

30. Any low now or in future where any lawdifferential government and private sector IMAshall oppose.

31. In the absence of any intent and mean rea IMAwill not accept any criminal charge

32. In the absence of an intent and in the absence ofmean rea criminal charges should not be againstdoctor and for that it was suggested to prepare adraft guidelines for the circulation in the CWCMeeting at Kolkatta.

33. Any clinical establishment act across the countryin all states they must clarify that doctor issuppose to have minimum degree or skill andknowledge similarly all hospital and medicalestablishments are required to purses of anaverage degree of infrastructure care and service.

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34. Based on the resolution passed on 1417 duringthe IMA Action Committee Meeting that CEA isa national issue whatever letter is being sent bythe state to their respective unit that will becirculated to everyone. So whatever is passeswill be circulated to every body

35. InterMinisterial Committee points Clarificationson the Report of the Committee finalized on30.3.2016 • Committee was constituted underthe Chairmanship of Additional Secretary(Health) to examine the issues raised by IndianMedical Association (IMA). Accordingly, three (3)consecutive meetings of all Members of theCommittee were held on 8.12.2015, 5.1.2016 and30.3.2016. The Committee finalized its report on30.3.2016. • Further, to clarify certain issuesraised by IMA, a meeting under Chairmanship ofAS&MD (NHM) was held on 8.11.2016 and underthe Chairmanship of AS (H) on 23.12.2016. •

36. The issues raised by IMA have been discussed indetail and following decisions were taken: Termof Reference Single doctors’ establishmentsshould be exempted from the purview of theClinical Establishment Act (CEA) and the needfor preregistration inspection may not be therefor those clinical establishments which alreadyhave entry level NABH accreditation and above.

37. IMA is for decriminalization of medical practice.The penal provision in practice should only beapplied when there is mens rea and clear cutintent on the part of the doctor to harm.

38. . IMA is for single window accountability througha centralized or a State mechanism. Currently adoctor can be charged simultaneously underCPA, MCI, State Medical Council, Human RightsCommission, State Clinical Establishment Act,IPC and under various Special Acts likeEnvironment, Surrogacy, organ transplant, HIVAIDS, PCPNDT, CEA, Water Acts etc.

39. IMA is also for single window registration ofmedial establishments. All other registrationsshould be through the same window.

40. IMA Byelaws defines “To work for the abolitionof compartmentalize in medical education,medical services and registration in the countryand thus to achieve equality among all membersof the profession”. IMA is for same laws andregulations applicable to both Govt. & PrivateSector.

41. IMA is for accreditation of medicalestablishments and is against license raj.

42. IMA has zero tolerance for Cuts and Commissionand unethical practices. Anybody charging,giving or receiving money without providing anyservice, is unethical. 8. IMA Policy is to honor

the dignity of any live or dead person.43. Any proposal which is sent by a member and if

he is now satisfied with the answer the mattershall be placed before the IMA Grievance Cell.

44. Protocol and National President, Past NationalPresidents and National President elect isremain same

45. Protocol of Hony Secretary General, Past Hony.Secretary General will also remain the same.

Following suggestions were made during themeeting.· It was suggested that Aao School Chalen Project

should be promoted.· Contact details (mobile Nos and email ids) of all

the office bearers of each and every state/ localbranch should be provided to IMA Hqrs for widercirculation of the issues

· Every state should promote cuts and commission· Demand of IMA should be as document not as

verbal· Members were requested to promote campaign

:Poochna Mat Bhoolo

Suggestion to Bengal regarding West Bengal CEA-2017

It was also asked its Bengal chapter to engage withthe government and push for legal safeguardsfor doctors and insulate them from kneejerkactions. Ironically, the Trinamool Congressdominated Bengal chapter has been among the bill’svocal advocates.

“The court is always there, but as the last resort. Fornow, we have decided to ask the state IMA toapproach the state government for making a fewamendments in the act. We will wait and watch forthe kind of response we get from the governmentbefore we decide on our next move,” said Dr K KAggarwal, IMA national president. According tosources, many state chapters in the meeting citedsimilar laws which either exist in their state or havebeen proposed.

Power Point presentation were given by the StatePresidents and Secretaries. National Presidentrequested States to provide IMA Hqrs all their,needs and demand as proposal to IMA HQ.

In the end of meeting Dr R N Tandon thankedeveryone for their presence. He also mentionedabout the involvement of IMA members in all thegovernment issues which shows the unity of IMA.He once again appreciate the house for theirparticipation.

IMA Action Committee Decisions: 1st April 2017

All resolutions were discussed, approved and passedunanimously.

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Agenda Item No. B-12Minutes of meeting of Annual State Leaders Review Meet and IMA National Action Cell meeting -

August 27, 2017, New Delhi - Dr R N Tandon, HSG, IMA

1. All national issues will be dealt with by IMA (Hq)even if the cause of action had arisen in a state.

2. All the state issues likely to have national impacthave to be informed to the IMA Hq. The sameshall be dealt as per the directions of IMA Hq.

3. Consensus in a state means majority opinionamongst the local branches of a state or SWC orState Council as the case may be.

4. Consensus at national level means majorityopinion amongst the state branches and /or CWCmembers.

5. In all national issues, decision of IMA hq shall bebinding

6. Whether an issue has national repercussions will

be ascertained from the CWC members or thestate branches.

7. If any state branch refuses to obey the directivesof IMA Hq, the case will be referred to GrievanceRedressal and Disciplinary committee of IMA Hq.

8. In a state level issue if a nonIMA organisationseeks the support of IMA at national level it hasto be channelized by the state branch in anappropriate format, either as a signed letter oran official e mail.

9. However, when issues of the profession arise,IMA Hq reserves the right for suo moto action.

10. Modes of protest will be decided by the Actioncommittee of IMA Hq. However, any protest shallallow attending of emergencies.

A meeting of the IMA Action Committee & StatePresidents’ & Secretaries’ Annual Review Meetingwas held on 27th August, 2017 at New Delhi wherefollowing issues were deliberated and passed:

· IMA is against Criminal Prosecution of doctorsunless there is mens rea or an intention to harm.

· IMA also took strong objection of application ofSection 308 on doctors of Gorakhpur Medical Collegefor administrative lapses. The norm is to transfer theconcerned officers so that fair investigation can takeplace and not to charge them with penal provisions.

For example for the current Haryana Ram Rahimmishap, there was also a system failure and only theconcerned administrators were transferred. NoSection 308 was put on them.

· No doctor treats with an intention to harm. Thecriminal prosecution clause against doctors shouldbe an exception and not a routine.

· Regarding prosecution of doctors for grossmedical negligence under Section 304A, based onJacob Mathew case new guidelines needed to beenacted by MCI and Ministry of Health. On persuasionof IMA, MCI in consultation with IMA has framedguidelines which will now be sent to Ministry ofHealth as per MCI procedure.

Similarly, in Parmanand Kataria case, MCI was tosend its recommendations to Ministry of Health, sothat in emergency Deptt. in a MLC case, a doctor isnot required to attend the court on every date. Onpersuasion of IMA again, MCI in consultation withIMA has framed guidelines to be forwarded toMinistry of Health as per MCI procedure.

· Today cases of medical negligence are beingsettled by various Councils without any guidelines

which were supposed to be made by MCI asprescribed under Section 8.6 of MCI EthicsRegulations.On persuasion of IMA, MCI inconsultation with IMA is now in the process offinalizing these guidelines.

· Patientdoctor relationship is a contract ofservice and this contract should be signed by thepatient and the treating doctor. Only if the patienthimself/herself is incapable of signing, the next oflegal kin should be authorized to sign the same.Under this contract there should be a clause clarifyingthat no legal case can be filed unless there is violationof any of the contract’s terms.

In the contract, all possible complications, estimateand circumstances in which the estimate can change,chances of unforeseen complications, chances ofmishap and chances of death should be mentioned.

The contract should also place on record that in theinstances of a system failure or an unforeseenmishap making doctors liable to pay compensation,what should be the maximum amount ofcompensation. Under MCI Ethics Regulations, it isclear that both patient and doctor have a right tochoose their patients. Only in emergency, doctorscannot refuse to provide first aid.

· Cases of violence are bound to increase. Withthe implementation of Clinical Establishment Act andBio Medical Waste Rules, the cost of consultationand basic treatment also is bound to increasesubstantially. Every rise in the cost of medicaltreatment will see a rise in patientdoctor disputeswhich may result into violence. While Ministry ofHealth has released advertisements in the NationalDailies, have written to all Chief Secretaries of theStates to implement / enact the State Medicare

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Services Persons and Medicare services institutions(Prevention of violence and damage to propertyActs) and also has initiated steps for a Central Law,IMA feels that all medical establishments shouldmake provisions for safety norms from such violenceincidences.

· IMA also wants protection from mediadefamation and has written to the Ministry that allcomplaints against doctors should be non reportableby the media till the doctor is convicted and like inChild Sexual Abuse victims where the name of thevictim is not disclosed, the name of the doctor andthat of the patient also should not be disclosed.

· Applicability of the recent changes in the BioMedical Waste Rules is likely to increase the cost ofsingle doctor clinic. The charges of registration, hiringand training of a skilled Bio Medical Waste handler,Bar Coding of Bio Medical Waste and compulsorycontracting Bio Medical waste disposer would meanan extra expenses of not less than Rs. 10,000/ permonth per clinic and the same ultimately would haveto be borne by the patient. Bar Coding which is yetnot implemented in the drug sector where fakedrugs are still a reality, should have been deferredfor the time being.

· IMA’s demands that all Acts with penal provisionfor clerical errors should be taken out, the same is inPNDT Act and is under consideration by CentralSupervisory Board.

· IMA also feels that sex ratio can only be increasedby the movement run by IMA itself and not by civilsocieties. IMA has zero tolerance to female foeticideand has decided to remove/terminate primarymembership of any member who violates suchregulations.

· Ministry of Health, on principle, under ClinicalEstablishment Act, has agreed to remove therepresentation of policies from appropriateauthorities, acknowledging preaccreditation entrylevel certification of NABH, removing the clausestabilization and replacing it with basic life support,considering a single window registration of medicalestablishments, renaming and clarifying thestandard treatment guidelines as advisories and onprinciple, they have also agreed to take single doctorestablishment out of the purview of ClinicalEstablishment Act.

· IMA is also challenging West Bengal ClinicalEstablishment Act and the proposed KarnatakaClinical Establishment Act. The WB CEA has beenenacted and Karnataka CEA has been referred to aJoint Action Committee. IMA is challenging WestBengal CEA on Constitutional points.

· IMA has decided that all cases in various States

linked to AYUSH doctors practicing modern systemof medicine or non doctors’ practicing modernmedicine be brought to Supreme Court by transferpetition.

· IMA has been able to hold and boldly clarifyingits stand on prescription guidelines and rights of allmedical doctors to chose a brand. However, IMA ispressurizing the Govt. for a single drugsinglecompanysingle price policy.

· IMA has issued its own medical emblem to beused by all modern medicine doctors in the country.This will differentiate MBBS from non MBBS doctors.

· IMA has also finalized with MCI its stand onIndian Medical Services.

· IMA wants a uniform Code of Ethics for bothprofessional and medical establishments’ businesshomes.

· IMA is also promoting, campaign “Physician’sHealth First”, in view of large number of youngdoctors dying and want all its doctors to have theirextended medical checkup done on a regular basis.

· IMA is now regularly meeting with Ministry ofHealth under the Chairmanship of Addl. Secretary,Ministry of Health & Family Welfare every month.

· IMA has been able to intervene in nondemocratic working of National Board ofExamination. Now it has become democratic.

· IMA has been able to hold and delay thepropose NMC and has been able to pursue the Govt.to bring back the autonomous/automatic status ofthe council. IMA wants that MCI Clause No. 152(b)should be included in the proposed NMC andschedule H mentioned to be deleted to avoid anyback door entry of non doctors who practice modernsystem of medicine.

· IMA is against NEXT Exam but is for uniform finalMBBS Exam and an early NEET.

· IMA wants a uniform stipend at national levelfor interns of atleast Rs.30,000/.

· IMA has also written to the Government toinclude “Health” in the concurrent list.

· IMA has requested that all health care providers(interns, PG, doctors) to be mandatory givenvaccination by their providers.

· All IMA members will conduct school healthprogramme under Aao School Chalen programme on5th of every month.

· All IMA members will either conduct Aao Gaon/Slum Chalen Project for the community or participatein Anti Natal services camp as the case may be on9th of every month.

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raise various issues, IMA is coming out with series ofadvertisements. IMA brought out 14 half pageadvertisements in Indian Express in monsoonparliament session and will bring out 15 full pageadvertisements in winter parliament session. IMAis also on regular basis releasing advertisements innewspapers regarding public health.

· Past is past. IMA does not want to go into thecontroversy – “cuts and commissions” are theyprevalent in the society. IMA has issued acircular to all its member doctors informing themthat they are only entitled to charge for consultation,skill procedure and medical services provided totheir patients.

· Doctors are brand ambassador of the societyand IMA has decided that over 1 lac members of IMAwill pledge their organ donation on NOTTO Websitebefore 2nd October.

· IMA has declared MDR TB as a public healthemergency and the new IMA campaign which is the2nd. freedom struggle will be GTN Campaign. Gstands for diagnosis of TB using GenExpert test, Tstands for tracing the contacts and treat them and Nstands for Notify TB patients.

· IMA Adverse action reporting helpline Number9717776514 has been made mandatory by IMA for allits members.

· IMA has also appointed Honorary IMA Professorsas an academic Brand Ambassadors of the professionall over the country.

· IMA is also campaigning to check the menace ofAntimicrobial Resistance which is a new epidemicof the society.

· IMA has also offered to the Govt. to adopt a fewdifferent tribal areas on a PPP Model.

· IMA has also written to all its members topromote Digital Payment while dealing with theirpatients.

· IMA has also directed all its State Branches tomake use of all public events in their respectivestates like Melas and Fairs and do public healthactivities in the same.

· IMA has also written to the ministry to considerrisk hazards allowances for all doctors working invarious hospitals starting from their internship.

· IMA is against for any hospital (Govt. or Private)to have more than 85% bed occupancy rate. All

patients getting admitted where the occupancy ismore than 85% should be referred to the nearestempanelled hospitals and in case of Government,the expenses should be borne by the government.No way, IMA can justify or support the Government’smove for not denying any admission and keepingtwo patient on one bed. To maintain the quality andsafety, such cases should be referred to the nearesthospitals where the facilities are existing and theexpenses should be borne by the hospitals on a predefined terms and conditions.

· Residents of the hospitals should not be allowedto work more than 48 hours in a week and the systemof moonlighting should be introduced in Govt./Private Hospitals where doctors from outside canbe appointed on an adhoc locum basis on hourlybasis.

· IMA is planning to organise IMA fast for nonviolence on 2nd October where every doctor willfast from Dusk to Dawn and will continue its effortsor persisting its demands with the government thenon violence way.

· IMA has also decided to promote Khadi. Duringits CWC meeting, all doctors will wear a Khadi Apronand will support the campaign for Swadeshi Khadias a health cloth.

· IMA new policy for Blood Donation is to collectblood in multiple bags to facilitate the componentsseparation.

· IMA has also requested all members of thepublic in case of any dispute to first go to the samedoctor and try to solve the grievance instead of goingto the social media/public or restoring to violence.

· IMA has also directed its members that in caseof any death, a meeting should be called betweenthe treating doctor, patient's family members tosatisfy them about any questions they may haveregarding the treatment.

· IMA has also requested to media while reportingnot to name the doctors till they are convicted.

· IMA is coming out with sustained campaign onSwacch Bharat.

Dr R N Tandon

Honorary Secretary General, IMA

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Another milestone in Digital IMA!

The Team Digital IMA Teleconference wasinaugurated on February 18, 2017 when Past NationalPresidents were connected to each other throughthis new Digital IMA service where all the participantsdiscussed various issues of medical importance andtook a few decisions for implementation.

This was followed by a telephonic conference ofNational President, Dr K K Aggarwal, National VicePresidentElect, Dr P S Bakhshi and HonorarySecretary General, Dr R N Tandon with StatePresidents from Northern States of Delhi, Haryana,Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab &Rajasthan was organised on Tuesday, February 21,2017.

Participants:1. Dr K K Aggarwal, National President, IMA2. Dr P S Bakhshi, National Vice PresidentElect3. Dr R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMAState Presidents:4. Dr Rakesh Gupta Delhi5. Dr Rajender Sharma Punjab6. Dr Atul Mahajan HP7. A P Setia Haryana8. Dr Ghulam Malik J & K9. Dr Mahesh Sharma Rajasthan

The State Presidents were informed about the IMAInternational Conference on Environmental Pollutionto be held on March 1011, 2017 at Hotel Lalit, NewDelhi. They were informed that either the StatePresident or the State Secretary or both are invitedto join the Conference. They were also informed thatinvitations have been sent to the Chairpersons andSecretaries of the State Pollution Control Board oftheir States. However, the State Presidents wererequested to follow up and ensure therepresentation of the State Pollution Control Boardof their respective States.

The State Presidents were also informed about therequest sent to them from IMA for the appointmentof one IMA nodal person for their State to attend aproposed ANC meeting by the Ministry of Health &Family Welfare, Govt. of India on 4th April, 2017 atNew Delhi in connection with the Pradhan MantriSurakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA). Some of thePresidents informed that they have alreadynominated the nodal person from their State andhave informed the HQs. regarding the same. Some

Milestones for Team Digital IMA! - IMA Teleconferencing servicesInteractions of IMA HQs. Office Bearers with National & State Leaders

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of the Presidents informed about the progress offollow up by them in their States.

The State Presidents were also informed about theensuing meeting of Action Committee at 4pm to 6pmon April 1, 2017 and meeting State Presidents /Secretaries from 9am to 5pm on April 2, 2017followed by Dinner.

During the Zero hour, Dr Ghulam Malik requestedthe HSG to confirm to the State persons for Bio Ethics.He was requested to send the message again.

Dr Ghulam Malik requested the HSG to show the IMABuilding to Dr K K Aggarwal.

The House was informed that soon we will beorganising training about twitter for the State leaderson teleconference.

The N.P. informed the State President from Rajasthanthat he will be in Jaipur for the International Cardiacconference. He requested the State President toensure maximum participation from Rajasthan in thisconference.

Dr Rakesh Kumar Gupta of DMA informed that duringthe forthcoming CWC meeting, the President Elect,DMA, Dr V K Malhotra would have taken over asPresident, DMA. HSG allowed both the incoming andoutgoing Presidents, DMA to attend the Stateleadership meeting to be held at IMA House, NewDelhi on April 12, 2017.

The teleconference ended after nearly 21 minutes.

Since then, teleconferences have been organisedon 7 more occasions on 2222017, 2422017, 2722017, 232017, 832017, 2332017 & 142017.

One of these teleconferences was even organisedto discuss the plans for protest with the State leadersin connection with the Assault on Maharashtradoctors when the National President and HonorarySecretary General were on a visit abroad.

Teleconferencing was used to ensure 100%attendance in the Action Committee and StateLeaders meeting on April 1, 2017 when all those Stateleaders who could not make it to Delhi for themeeting were connected directly throughteleconferencing.


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IMA CENTENARY AWARDDr Ketan Desai

President, World Medical Association

Dr K K Aggarwal1st Vice President,CMAAO

President (Elect), CMAAO 2019

Dr Ajay KumarPast National President, IMA

Dr Vinay AggarwalPast National President, IMA

Dr Ved Prakash MishraChairman, Academic Committee, MCI

IMA EMPOWERED WOMAN AWARDDr Jayshree B Mehta

President, Medical Council of India

Dr Soumya SwaminathanDirector General, ICMR

Dr Rishma PaiPresident, FOGSI

IMA DOCTOR OF THE DECADE AWARDDr A.Marthandai Pillai

Past National President, IMA

Dr Shashank Joshi

Dr Randeep GuleriaDirector General, AIIMS, Delhi

IMA DOCTOR OF THE YEAR AWARDDr R N Tandon

Hony. Secretary General, IMA

Dr Girish TyagiRegistrar, Delhi Medical Council

Dr R V AsokanChairman, IMA Hospital Board of India

Dr Hrishikesh D PaiHonorary Secretary General, FOGSI

Dr K K KalraFormer CEO, NABH

IMA DOCTOR OF THE YEAR AWARDDr Shiva Kant Misra

President, Surgeons’ Association of India

Dr Bhupender AhujaPresident, IRIA

Dr Saumitra RawatSenior Consultant, Gastroenterology & Liver

Transplant

IMA DOCTOR OF THE YEAR AWARDDr H P Saraf

State President, IMA Chhatisgarh State Branch

Dr Mona DesaiChairperson, IMA Women Doctors’ Wing

Dr. Bharti KashyapMedical Director, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital

IMA EMINENT MEDICAL TEACHER AWARDDr Georgi Abraham

Dr C G Bahuleyan

Dr M C MishraPresident cum Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi

University of Medical Sciences of Technology

Dr J A JayalalProfessor of Surgery & President Elect IMA TN

Prof (Dr) Anil AggarwalProfessor of Anaesthesia, SGPGI, Lucknow

Dr Swati BhaveHonorary Professor in Adolescent Medicine

D Y Patil Medical College, Hospital & Res. Centre

IMA EMINENT NURSE AWARDMrs Anita Deodhar

President, TNAI

Sr GilbertFormer President, TNAI

Mrs Sheila SedaFormer Secretary General, TNAI

IMA DOCTOR’S DAY AWARD - 2017

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Agenda Item No. B-15 & C-1

A meeting of the Finance Standing Committee (FSC)and Building Standing Committee (BSC) was held on27th December, 2016 at Hotel Radisson, Amritsar,Punjab.Following members were present:Dr. S S Agarwal, National President, IMADr. K K Aggarwal, Honorary Secretary, IMADr. Mahendra B. Desai, Chairman, FSCDr. A. Marthanda Pillai, IMA NPPSDr. R.N.Tandon, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMADr. V.K.Monga, Dean, IMA CGP and Convenor, IMABuilding Standing CommitteeDr. Parthiv Sanghvi, Member, FSCDr. M.S.Ashraf, Member, FSCDr. T.N.Baburavindran, Member, FSCDr. V.C.V.Pillai, Trivandrum, Past National President,IMADr. Bukulesh S Mehta,Chairman, IMA Bui ldingStanding CommitteeDr. Arvind Kumar Sinha, Honorary Secretary, AKNSDr. Yogendra S. Modi, Honorary Secretary, IMA NSSSDr. P. Pulla Rao, Honorary Secretary, IMA AMSDr. Jitendra B. Patel, Chairman, NPPSDr. Manjul Mehta, Honorary Assistant Secretary, IMADr. Alex Franklin, Honorary Secretary, IMA NationalHealth SchemeDr. Jayakrishnan A.V., Honorary Secretary, IMA NPPSDr. John Panicker, InviteeDr, Dinesh B. Thakare, InviteeDr. A.W.Pawade, InviteeDr. H.Vinay Ranjan, InviteeDr. Bipinchandra M. Patel, Finance Secretary, IMANSSSDr. V.G.Pardeep Kumar, InviteeDr. Santosh Kumar Mandal, InviteeDr. Ashok Kumar Chatterjee, InviteeDr. Rajendra Airan, inviteeDr. V.G.Pradeekumar, Invitee

Dr.S.S. Agarwal, National President, IMA wasadorned with Presidential Medallion.

The meeting was called to order by NationalPresident, IMA who welcomed Members of theFinance Standing Committee, Honorary SecretaryGeneral, IMA, Hony. Finance Secretary, IMA and theoffice Bearers of various wings of IMA and asked theChairman, FSC to conduct FSC meeting.

Dr R. N. Tandon, Honorary Finance Secretary,IMA welcomed National President, IMA, all thedignitaries of the House. The meeting started with

Minutes of the meeting of Finance Standing Committee and Building Standing Committee of IMA heldon 27th December, 2016 at Hotel Radisson, Amritsar, Punjab

the permission of the Chair.

Agenda Item No.-1: To confirm the minutes of theFinance Standing Committee and Building StandingCommittee both held on 12th November, 2016 atChennai

The Minutes of the Finance Standing Committee andBuilding Standing Committee both held on 12th

November, 2016 at Chennai were approved andpassed.

Agenda Item No.-2:- To receive the Action TakenReport on the meeting of FSC and BSC held on 12th

November, 2016. The same were read and approvedby the FSC and BSC.

Agenda Item No.-3:- To review the financial positionof the Association and the progress of IMA Buildingat New Delhi as on December 15, 2016: Theaccounting statements of IMA Hqrs and its wings ason December 15, 2016 and the progress of IMABuilding at New Delhi were presented. The samewere discussed and approved.

Service Tax issue:

Following other points discussed during the FSC/BSCare as under:· HFS informed the House that the work related

to repair and replacement of outer doors of OtisLift installed in IMA HQs. Building at New Delhihas been completed and the same is found tobe working satisfactorily.

· The efforts are ON to explore the possibilitiesof installation of a service lift/Capsule Lift andbudget and the same shall be completed soon.

· The work related to repair and replacement ofFire Safety System installed in IMA HQs. Buildinghas been assigned and the job is alreadyunderway.

· Procedures are being undertaken to install aDiesel Generator Set for 3rd floor exclusively forQCI as approved by the BSC and FSC.

· The House was informed that the Bathroom inthe Presidential Suite and the Main Hall of IMABuilding at New Delhi needs complete repairsand overhauls. Necessary sanction was given bythe BSC and FSC for the same and the IMA HQs.was authorized to carry out the necessarymodalities in this regard and get the job donebefore the next meetings of the BSC and FSC.

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urgent repair. The matter was discussed andhouse approved the same that work will be doneon priority basis and subject to availability offund for renovation of IMA Building (Hqrs), NewDelhi.

· House was informed towards non receipt of rentfrom M/s Arth News Channel, since February,2016. It was discussed and decided that followingstep should be taken immediately to recover themoney from tenant

1. Legal Notice should be served immediatelyto recover the rent

2. MOU should be cancelled

3. Get the premises vacated from the abovetenants.

· IMA Building at Calcutta, urgently repair workat IMA Building at Calcutta should be taken careimmediately, for this IMA Calcutta Building tobe visited by Dr. Ravi Wankhedkar / ChairmanBuilding Standing Committee and one personfrom IMA Hqrs.

· The House was informed that there is a needfor formation of an IMA Community WelfareFund. The House authorized the incomingNational President, Dr K K Aggarwal to look intothe same and take necessary action. NationalPresident was also authorized to form a relevantCommittee to look into the various aspect ofPolicy making and administration of the Fund.

· The House was of the opinion that a IMAAccreditation Council alongwith an IMAacademic Council should be created whichshould ensure that all the academic wings of IMAwork under one umbrella under the IMA HQs.and there should be a uniform academic systemof imparting CMEs and organizing all academicactivities like Courses being run or to be run bythe academic Wings etc.

· The House deliberated upon and agreed tocreate a Healthkeeping Task Force taking 3members from each State which shall have theduty of health keeping of the masses, speciallyduring Disaster. However, this shall be gotapproved from the CWC / C.C.

· The House deliberated and approved a slightchange in the IMA Travel Policy wherein it wasdecided that during disbursement of onewayTravelling Allowance (T.A.) by air to theparticipants travelling more than 2000K.M. toattend an IMA meeting, the lowest rates charged

by an airline for a particular sector within oneweek of notification of scheduled meetings (likeState leaders meetings / CWC meetings / C.C.meetings), shall form the baseline forreimbursement of T.A. to all the participants. TheT.A. Form should be accompanied with properBill, air tickets and original incoming Boardingpasses duly Security stamped by the relevantairport. If any of the document in favour of airtravel are inconsistent, then 2nd A.C. Train fare,will be reimbursed.)

The Meeting ended with vote of thank to the Chair.

Sd/ Sd/Dr. Mahendra B.Desai Dr. R.N.TandonChairman, FSC Honorary Finance Secy, IMA

Sd/ Sd/Dr Bakulesh S Mehta Dr V K MongaChairman, BSC Dean,IMA CGP, Convenor BSC

Action taken report of metings of Finance StandingCommittee and Building Standing Committee of

IMA held on 27th December, 2016 at HotelRadisson, Amritsar, Punjab.

· All wings of IMA Hqrs have been reminded tosubmit their FD’s receipt in original at IMA Hqrs.,and the same will be sent back as and when it isrequired for renewal.

· HFS informed the House that States have beeninformed about the FSC decision for uniformaccounting software and that they shouldprocure and shift their accounting to TallySoftware.

· IMA Community Welfare Fund has been created.The National President, Dr K K Aggarwal hasnominated past Honorary Secretary General,IMA, Dr Dharam Prakash to work out themodalities into the various aspect of Policymaking and administration of the Fund.

· IMA Accreditation Council alongwith an IMAacademic Council has been formed under theChaimanship of Dr A Marthanda Pillai, Chairman,IMA Accreditation Council and Dr RaviWankhedkar, Chairman, IMA Academic Council.Dr A Raja Rajeshwar has been appointed as OSDto Dr A Marthanda Pillai for IMA CGP and Dr GuruBaksh Singh of Telangana has been appointed asOSD to him for IMA AMS.

· A Healthkeeping Task Force has been formedwhich shall look after all work related toHealthkeeping of the masses, specially Disaster

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Management.

· The House deliberated and approved a slightchange in the IMA Travel Policy wherein it wasdecided that during disbursement of onewayTravelling Allowance (T.A.) by air to theparticipants travelling more than 2000K.M. toattend an IMA meeting, the lowest rates chargedby an airline for a particular sector within oneweek of notification of scheduled meetings (likeState leaders meetings / CWC meetings / C.C.meetings), shall form the baseline forreimbursement of T.A. to all the participants. TheT.A. Form should be accompanied with properBill, air tickets and original incoming Boardingpasses duly Security stamped by the relevantairport. If any of the document in favour of airtravel are inconsistent, then 2nd A.C. Train fare,will be reimbursed.)

· Necessary legal notices have been served to M/s. Arth Buisiness News Channel regardingpayments of pending rent by them.

· The work related to repair and replacement ofFire Safety System installed in IMA HQs. Buildinghas been completed and the NOC from Delhi Fire

Services is awaited.

· Procedures are being undertaken to install aDiesel Generator Set for 3rd floor exclusively forQCI as approved by the BSC and FSC.

· Thorough repair of Main Hall of IMA Building atNew Delhi has been completed and bookings arebeing taken now in the renovated Main Hall.

· The bathroom of Presidential Suite has beentotally revamped.

· Process is under way to procure proposals forvarious renovation work i.e. Parapet / boundarywall / Committee room and Dining Hall in IMABuilding (Hqrs), New Delhi.

· The visit of IMA leaders including, NationalPresident (Elect), Dr Ravi Wankhedkar, Chairman,Building Standing Committee, Dr. Bakulesh SMehta and one office bearer to be deputed fromIMA HQs. to IMA Building at Calcutta to overseethe need of repairs in IMA Building at Kolkata isyet to be planned.

Sd/ Sd/Dr. R.N.Tandon Dr V K MongaHony Fin. Secy, IMA Dean, IMA CGP

& Convenor, BSC

Minutes of the meeting of Finance Standing Committee and Building Standing Committee of IMAheld on 15th April, 2017 at Calcutta (West Bengal).

A meeting of the Finance Standing Committee (FSC)and Building Standing Committee (BSC) was held on15th April, 2017, Calcutta (West Bengal).

Following members were present:Dr. K K. Aggarwal, National President, IMADr. R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary, IMADr. Mahendra B. Desai, Chairman, FSCDr. V.K.Monga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMADr. Bukulesh S Mehta,Chairman, IMA BuildingStanding CommitteeDr.Ashwini Kumar Dalmiya, Hony.t.Secretary, IMADr. Manjul Mehta, Honorary Asst.Secretary, IMADr.A. Naragaj, Member, IMA Building StandingCommittee,Dr. Sanjoy Banerjee, Member, IMA BuildingStanding CommitteeDr. V.S.Rao Honorary Secretary, IMA AMSDr. M.S. Hari Babu, Vice Chairman, IMA AMSDr. Dilip Kumar Dutta, Editor, JIMADr. D.K.Sahay, Member, Finance StandingCommittee, IMADr. R.Gunasekaran, Honorary Secretary, IMA CGP

Dr. Sanjay Jain, Member, Finance StandingCommittee, IMADr. M.S.Ashraf, Member, Finance StandingCommittee, IMADr. K.Prakasam, InviteDr. N, Muthurajan, InviteDr. Yogesh S. Modi, Honorary Secretary, IMA NSSSDr. Parthiv Sanghvi, Member, Finance StandingCommittee, IMADr. Sarbari Dutta, Director, AKN Sinha Institute,InvitedDr. Vinay Aggarwa, Past National President, IMA –InvitedDr. S. Arul Rhaj, Past National President, IMA –InvitedDr. Anil Pachnekar, Member, Building StandingCommittee, IMA

Dr.K K Agarwal, National President, IMA was adornedwith Presidential Medallion.

The meeting was called to order by NationalPresident, IMA who welcomed Members of the


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Finance Standing Committee, Honorary SecretaryGeneral, IMA, Hony. Finance Secretary, IMA and theoffice Bearers of various wings of IMA and asked theChairman, FSC to conduct FSC meeting.

Dr V. K. .Monga Honorary Finance Secretary,IMA welcomed National President, IMA, all thedignitaries of the House. The meeting started withthe permission of the Chair.

Agenda Item No.-1: To confirm the minutes of theFinance Standing Committee and Building StandingCommittee both held on 27th December, 2016 atAmritsar (Punjab) were approved and passed.


December, 2016. The same were read and approvedby the FSC and BSC.

Finance and BuildingIMA state and local branches should use theterm…………….branch IMA for registration.

IMA HQs to build a club for its members assanctioned earlier.

Next CWC and OB meet with PS meet to be clubbedtogether and be organized in Delhi on 23/34September, 2017.

IMA Centenary Conference. Money has already beensanctioned for the same.IMA shall explore next OB meet as destination meet.

All FDs of IMA or wings, original shall be located atIMA HQ custody. Renewal of them shall have thesignature of HSG/ HFC as one of the signatories. AllFDs should be invested in consultation with NP,Chairman SFC and be centralized so as to getmaximum returns.

All wings and projects to have a uniform accountingsystem over tally.

IMA health keeping task force may be activated.

IMA shall explore buying lands and buildings panIndia in association/help with branches or states.

The Committee consisting of Honorary SecretaryGeneral, Honorary Joint Secretary, Building andHonorary Finance Secretary constituted by NationalPresident, IMA to execute work related to electricalrepairs at headquarters.

Photographs of all Past National Presidents andHonorary Secretaries General to be obtained as faras possible and be displayed prominently in theBuilding.

All recently renovated areas of IMA Building to beinaugurated before 1st July.

IMA is bearing immense revenue losses due to nonpayment of rent by one of its tenant M/s ArthBusiness News Channel. Legal suit for possessionand recovery should be expedited.

Regarding repair of IMA HQs Building at Kolkata acommittee consisting of Dr Bakulesh S Mehta, Dr RNTandon, Dr VK Monga, Dr Santosh Kumar Mandal andDr Ashwani Dalamiya is constituted to look into theissues and come back with possiblesuggestions within 4 weeks.

Requests received from State branches requestingdiscount in life membership subscription in HFC wasnot accepted by the CWC. However, the states arefree to provide any amount of discount from theirState share.

It is resolved that all office bearers of IMA and itswings may be entitled for air fare from respectiveaccounts for official meetings as per discretion ofHSG and NP. The air ticket should be booked at least1 month before in routine cases or within a week ofthe said meeting notice. For any emergencymeetings of various SubCommittees etc. air fareshall be reimbursed for which separate funds maybe raised by the Wings/Projects.

IMA special committee to decide about 7th PayCommission implementation for the staff.Recommendations to be received in 4 weeks.

A time bound (2 weeks) committee headed by Dr RVAsokan (HSG, Chairman Building and ChairmanFinance) will look into JIMA accounts ever since it isbeing published from Kolkata.The details ofincomes, revenue to be reported. It has beenclaimed that last month JIMA has published over 1.5lac copies but the journal does not show the samerevenues. The committee will also go through theaccounts and permissions granted to JIMACON. JIMAis publication and cannot organize conferences. Thesame committee will also look into the accounts ofAap ka Swastya and Your Health and giverecommendations to how to make them nationalviable issues. It was made clear that IMA HQ will notgive any funds to JIMA for publication – they willhave to arrange their finances.

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A special committee of Dr Arul Rhaj, Dr V inayAggarwal, JIMA Editor and Ravi Wankhedkar to givesuggestions about JIMA functioning within 2weeks after the report is submitted to theheadquarters.

IMA shall organize a series of workshops withstakeholders including one on how to handleshortage of doctors in rural areas and EOL issues.

It was passed that IMA HQ will raise Rs. 1 crore forIMA issues related public advertisements fromvarious claim statements and campaigns. All sateswill also contribute 5 10 lac each for this purpose. Inthe adv where state money is used the name of thestate will be acknowledged.

IMA to econnect will build up a database of all officebearers of IMA at HQ, State and Local levels. Fivezonal coordinators may be made for the same.

IMA states and local branches to promote theirtwitter and FB accounts and link them theheadquarters accounts.

IMA Accreditation Council

The members shall be National President, HSG,Chairman, 5 Zonal Vice Chairmen, Chairman, IMAAcademy, Research & Medical Establishment Wings,Chairman, IMA AMS, Dean, IMACGP, Hony. Director,IMA AKN Sinha Institute, Chairman, Hospital Boardof India, Chairman, Knowledge Wing, Dean,Paramedical Council, Chairman, CME Fund,Chairman, Academic Council, OSD to ChairmanAccreditation Council, Nominee NABH, NomineeNBE, Nominee ICMR, Nominee Ministry of Health,Nominee Health Universities.

Quorum of Meeting National President and HonySecretary General, IMA, Chairman, AccreditationCouncil + 5 others.

The IMA Accreditation council shall accreditate IMANational Professors, IMA National Faculty, IMACourses and Fee Structure and award IMA CreditHours. The council shall also have a bettercoordination, streamlining & upgradation of allacademic activities of IMA. The council shall meetby circulation monthly or as and when requiredphysically.

The council shall appoint IMA National Professors.They shall be appointed for three years and may berenewed thereafter. People of eminence can beappointed as Life Time IMA Professors. NationalAwardees (Padma or B C Roy National Award etc.)can be nominated by the Council. The criteria shallbe IMA Life Member with 15 years of Post PG or 20

years of Post MBBS with more than five publicationsin any reputed journal. DNB and MCIRecognized Professors who are Life Member of IMAcan be considered by the Council suo moto for thepost. Once appointed IMA National Professor canuse this designation on their Letter Head andVisiting Cards. They shall be given preference byState and Local Branches as Faculty for conductingCMEs. Any of the CME conducted by them willautomatically be given IMA Credit Hours. The IMAAccreditation Council shall also accredit ate IMANational Faculty. IMA Life Members with 10 yearsPost PG or 15 years Post MBBS experience with atleastthree research paper in a reputed journal can apply. The same may be renewed every three years.National IMA shall accreditate all IMA Hqs, State &Local Branch International, National or RegionalCME’s (Workshops, Seminars, Lectures, Conferenceswith IMA Credit Hours. IMA Credit Hours will be inthe form of a e Certificate with NationalIMA Registered Logo. For one hour of Scientific CME(physical, print or online), 1 IMA Credit Hour willbe given. Chairpersons, Moderators and panellistsshall also be given IMA CME hours based on the sameduration. IMA credit hours (one IMA credit hour perarticle/ book chapter, author or coauthor) shall alsobe given for publishing a paper in any indexedJournal (ICI, MCI, UGC, Medlar etc), CME (print,physical or online) on Bio ethics, Medico LegalAspects, Adverse Reporting, Mental Health, AntiMicrobial Resistance or on WHO theme extra 0.5credit hour will be given for one hour CME.

The fee for each CME will be Rs.50/ per session orconference per delegate ecertificate. 50% share willbe for the State and Local Branch combine and 50%share for IMA HQs. The IMA HQs/ state IMA shallappoint an observer for every CME.

Efforts shall be made by IMA HQs. so that all IMAcredit hours and courses are accredited by

State Councils.

Bihar Medical council has already accredited the AKNSinha Courses.

IMA shall also accredit Courses, Lectures,Workshops, seminars and CME’s (online or physical)organized by fellow organizations and institutes ororganizations of repute. IMA fee for suchaccreditation will be 10% of the gross registrationfee with a minimum of Rs.10000/

IMA shall not accreditate any promotional, selfadvertising CME organized by pharmaceuticalCompanies or allied health care industry.

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The council shall also accreditate print and onlinecourses of its wings. IMA AKN Sinha Institute shalldevelop and run correspondence courses; IMA CGPprint or ecourses for general practitioners and IMAAMS print or ecourses for specialists.

The council shall also define all courses run by thewings as certificate Courses or Fellowship Course.No diploma or degree course shall be organized. Theduration of the course shall be decided byAccreditation Council on case to case basis. Once acourse is submitted to the academic & accreditationcouncil, the same shall be approved within 30calendar days.

The certificate course shall have preand postevaluation and Fellowship Course shall have a theoryand practical exams.

In both Certificate and Fellowship Courses priorityshall be given to courses in which, MCI does not havediploma or PG for e.g. nonpelvic Ultrasound,Echocardiography etc. Certification courses shouldbe for minimum 6 months.

IMA Accreditation Council can consider Coursesdeveloped by IMA FOMA partners on sharingmodels.

For developing courses, IMA may pay 7% royalty tocourse writer. IMA may also invite authors to write

books for IMA at royalty of 7%.

5th September every year, Teachers Day, shall beorganized as IMA National Convocation Day. AllFellowship/Certificates shall be awarded on thatday.

Fellow IMA (FIMA): IMA shall organize an AnnualFellowship exam every year. All IMA Life Membersshall be entitled to give online exam. The exam shallbe based on multiple choice questions of happeningsin the last one decade. Those who secure more than50% of marks will be given a Certificate of Fellow ofIMA which they can use on their letter head orvisiting cards. The same should be renewable afterevery five years. IMA shall explore tie ups withreputed UGC recognized universities for IMAeducational programmes.


Dr. M.B.Desai Dr. V K MongaChairman, FSC Hony. Finance Secretary, IMA

Dr Bakulesh S Mehta Dr Ashiwni Kumar DalmiyaChairman BSC Hony. Joint Secretary, IMA

Minutes of the meeting of Finance Standing Committee and Building Standing Committee of IMA heldon 22nd September, 2017 at New Delhi.

A meeting of the Finance Standing Committee (FSC)and Building Standing Committee (BSC) was held on22nd September, 2017, The Grand (New Delhi).

Following members were present:

Dr. K K. Aggarwal, National President, IMADr. Ravi Wankhedkar, National President, IMA (Elect)Dr. R N Tandon, Honorary Secretary, IMADr. Mahendra B. Desai, Chairman, FSCDr. Bukulesh S Mehta,Chairman, IMA Bui ldingStanding CommitteeDr. V.K.Monga, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMADr. Ashwani Kumar Dalmiya, Honorary Jt. Secretary,IMADr. Manjul Mehta, Honorary Assistant Secretary, IMADr. Anil Goyal, Honorary Jt. Secretary, IMADr. Yogesh S. Modi, Honorary Secretary, IMA NSSSDr. T.N.Babu Ravindran, Member, FSCDr. P.N.Govindra Rajalu, Member, FSC

Dr. V.S.Rao Honorary Secretary, IMA AMSDr. Sarbari Dutta, Director, IMA AKNSDr. Anil Pachnekar, Member, Building StandingCommittee, IMADr. Jayesh Lele, Honorary Secretary, HBIDr. Dilip Kumar Dutta, Editor, JIMADr. D.K.Sahay, Member, Finance Standing Committee,IMADr. R.Gunasekaran, Honorary Secretary, IMA CGPDr. Sanjay Jain, Member, Finance StandingCommittee, IMADr. M.S.Ashraf, Member, Finance StandingCommittee, IMADr. Sarbari Dutta, Director, AKN Sinha Institute, InviteDr. Vinay Aggarwa, Past National President, IMA –InviteDr. K.Vijayakumar, Past National President, IMA InviteDr. S. Arul Rhaj, Past National President, IMA – Invite

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The meeting was called to order by NationalPresident, IMA who welcomed Members of theFinance Standing Committee, Honorary SecretaryGeneral, IMA, Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA andthe office Bearers of various wings of IMA and askedthe Chairman, FSC to conduct FSC meeting.

Dr V. K. Monga, Honorary Finance Secretary,IMA welcomed National President, IMA, all thedignitaries of the House. The meeting started withthe permission of the Chair.Agenda Item No.-1: To confirm the minutes of theFinance Standing Committee and Building StandingCommittee both held on 15th April, 2017 at Calcutta(West Bengal) and extraordinary meeting of FSC heldon 5th June, 2017, at New Delhi, approved and passed.


April, 2017 at Calcutta (West Bengal). The same wereread and approved by the FSC and BSC.Agenda Item No.-3:To receive the Audited BalanceSheet for the period from 1st April 2016 to 31st March,

2017 and 1st April, 2017 to 30th June, 2017 of IMA(Hqrs.), IMA Building, IMACGP, IMAAMS, IMA AKNSinha Institute, IMA Project(s), Journal of IMA, IMABuilding at Calcutta, Your Health of IMA & ApkaSwasthya of IMA, IMA NSSS, IMA NPP Scheme, IMAHBI, IMA National Health Scheme, IMA NationalPension Scheme.

Dr. V.K. Monga (Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA),inform the house about the financial situation of IMAand its wings and read out the note of accounts Whilegoing through the accounts of IMA the followingpoint has been informed are as under :The Balance Sheet of IMA (HQs.) reflects excess ofIncome over Expenditure as Rs. 61.07 Lac during thefinancial year 20162017, the details of the samereflected in Income and expenditure of IMA Hqrs.Further HFS also informed the house that as perresolution passed in the previous FSC/CWC dulyapproved by the CCM, that 5% Administrativecharges of gross revenue has been charged from IMAwings as per details shown in the table are as under:

Income Statement

Detail of 5% Administrative Charges from Gross Income Name of Wings FY-2015-

2016 FY-2016-2017 Total amount

Receivable

IMA CGP

11,97,449.00 12,34,725.00 24,32,174.00

IMA AMS

6,88,899.00 9,04,203.00 15,93,102.00

AKNS

1,73,707.00 1,10,583.00 2,84,290.00

JIMA (Hqrs New Delhi)

1,77,314.00 2,17,359.00 3,94,673.00

JIMA (Calcutta)

3,83,541.00 2,86,496.00 6,70,037.00

JIMA Building

1,29,396.00 1,25,644.00 2,55,040.00

Your Health

59,290.00 74,329.00 1,33,619.00

Apka Swasthya of IMA

5,209.00 3,762.00 8,971.00

IMA National Health Scheme

40,343.00 69,154.00 1,09,497.00 IMA National Protection Scheme

68,740.00 1,06,867.00 1,75,607.00

HBI

71,405.00 69,154.00 1,40,559.00

National Pension Scheme - 8,099.00 8,099.00

Total 29,95,293.00 32,10,375.00 62,05,668.00

IMA Dilli Chalo Prgramme :

Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA has informed theabout the successful conduction of Dilli ChaloMovement of IMA held on 6thJune, 2017 at New Delhi.The total fund collected for this purpose from IMA

various State Branch amounting to Rs.20.21 Lac , andRs.76.52 Lakh has been spent during the Dilli Chaloprogramme. The Excess of Expenses amounting toRs.56.31 Lac used from IMA Special fund. , approvalalready taken from FSC in its extra ordinary meetingheld at New Delhi on 5th June, 2017.

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IMA Building Head Quarter’s

The Balance Sheet of IMA Building at (HQs.) reflectsexcess of Expenditure over Income amounting to Rs.34.33 Lac during the financial year 20162017, thedetails of the same reflected in Income andexpenditure of IMA Building Hqrs, New Delhi:

Further going through the account of IMA HeadQuarter Building (Hqrs), at New Delhi, it was notedthat Rent from M/s Arth News Channel was notreceived since February, 2016, upto 31st March, 2017,amounting to Rs.1,12,00,000/.

IMA Academic Wings (CGP/AMS/AKNS)

The Balance Sheet of IMA CGP (HQs.) reflects excessof over Income over Expenditure amounting to Rs.16.59 Lac during the financial year 20162017, thedetails of the same reflected in Income andexpenditure of IMA CGP (Chennai):

While going through the accounts of IMA CGP thefollowing points raised during the FSC meeting areas under:

· A sum of Rs.36960000/ receivable amountfrom AP State Branch is shown in theBalance Sheet. Everybody raised query thatat what time this amount will remainreceivable and what efforts have been madeto recover from AP State branch, to this,there was no answer by the officebearers.

· Everybody wanted to know that how muchmoney has been received with the effortsof IMA eVarsity and how much amount hadbeen paid to them by IMACGP.

· IMA CGP organised Study tour and Moneyreceived from tour was Rs.1,00,09,000.00/and expenses were Rs.87,99,669/. Therewas no match in two these figures.

· In the Receipts and Payment Account Page“Item FD closed” of Rs.38, 62,903/.Everybody enquired that this is a wrongstatement and if FD’s have been receivedwhere is this money. This figure was alsonot tallying.

IMA Academy of Medical Specialities (Hyderabad)and IMA AKNS (Patna)

The Balance Sheet of IMA AMS (Hyderabad) reflectsexcess of Income over Expenditure amounting toRs.3.77 Lac during the financial year 20162017, thedetails of the same reflected in Income andexpenditure of IMA AMS (Hyderabad).

The Balance Sheet of IMA AKNS(Patna) reflectsexcess of Income over Expenditure amounting toRs.5.65 Lac during the financial year 20162017, thedetails of the same reflected in Income andexpenditure of IMA AKNS (Patna).

Journal of IMA

The Balance Sheet of Journal of IMA reflects excessof Expenditure over Income amounting to Rs.21.79Lac during the financial year 20162017. While goingthrough the account of JIMA, it was revealed thatJIMA has published over 1.5 lac copies but the journaldoes not show the same revenues. It was made clearthat IMA HQ will not give any funds to JIMA forpublication – they will have to arrange their financesby the way of generating fund from Advertiser /Sponsored.

Special committee has been formed for this purposeto look into the matter of JIMA publication headedby Dr RV Asokan (HSG, Chairman Building andChairman Finance) will look into JIMA accounts eversince it is being published from Kolkata.The reportof the committee awaited.

The same committee will also look into the accountsof Aap ka Swastya and Your Health and giverecommendations to how to make them nationalviable issues.

Issue related to Internal audit done by IMA Hqrs.

While discussing the accounts of IMA Wings, as therewas so much controversy over finances of Wings, itwas unanimously resolved to get Internal Audit doneby IMA Hqrs for IMA CGP/AMS/AKNSI/JIMA/IMA Bldgat Kolkata / Your Health of IMA, for the period 1st

April, 2016 to 30th September, 2017.

Issue related to hike in Pay of IMA Hqrs and its wingsStaff :-

FSC approved hike in salary of IMA and its wings staffin accordance with 7th Pay Commission. Somemembers raised an objection about the quality ofworking of staff at Hqrs and wanted to improvementin work culture.

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The House approved the IMA decision and action topublish Community Health related advertisementspublished and planned to be published in majordailies in association with relevant stakeholders. TheHouse was informed that 14 community healthrelated advertisements have been published inIndian Express and 4 advertisements have beenpublished in Hindustan Times with the help of M/s.Omron.

All the public health and hygiene relatedagreements of IMA with companies like Omron,Hygia, State Bank Credit Cards etc. were reported tothe CWC which approved all of them.

IMA Building related issue :-

Regarding repair of IMA HQs Building at Kolkata acommittee consisting of Dr Bakulesh S Mehta, Dr RNTandon, Dr VK Monga, Dr Santosh Kumar Mandal andDr Ashwani Dalamiya is constituted to look into the

issues and come back with possiblesuggestions within 4 weeks

· Regarding the issue of non payment of rentby one of the tenants of IMA HQs. M/s. ArthBusiness News Channel, the House wasinformed that the matter is subjudice.

· Installation of new lift at IMA Hqrs.,professional service, provided as suggestedby Dr. Lele, Mr. Ti lak to look into thefeasibility study for installation of new liftat IMA Hqrs.


Dr. M.B.Desai Dr. V K MongaChairman, FSC Honorary Finance Secretary, IMA

· Internal audit of IMA Wings for the period 1st

April, 2016 to 30th September, 2017, conductedby M/s Sharma Sharma & co., and submit reports.

· All wings of IMA Hqrs have been reminded tosubmit their FD’s receipt in original at IMA Hqrs.,and the same will be sent back as and when it isrequired for renewal.

· Necessary legal notices have been served to M/s. Arth Buisiness News Channel regardingpayments of pending rent by them. We havereceived on account money amounting to Rs. 5lakh in the m/o December, 2017, only.

· The work related to repair and replacement ofFire Safety System installed in IMA HQs. Buildinghas been completed, However, after the job wascompleted and the personnel from Delhi FireServices inspected the same, they pointed outyet another set of shortcomings in the Buildingand asked us to fulfil these also.

o These additional jobs included:

o 1. Installation of Fire resistant doors on theground floor at the staircase

o 2. Installation of separate water tanks on theterrace of IMA Building exclusively for Firesystems.

o 3. Installation of water curtains on all floorsat the staircases

o 4. Provision of Fire escape in the rear staircasefrom 4th floor onwards as the existing staircase

Action taken report of metings of Finance Standing Committee and Building Standing Committee of IMAheld on 22nd September, 2017 at The Grand Hotel (New Delhi)

was found to be blocked from the 4th floorupwards.

o The additional jobs at S.Nos. (1), (2) and (3)above had to be got done on an emergency basisfrom M/s. Newton Firetech Systems (P) Ltd. forobtaining the NOC for public use of our Buildingat a cost of Rs. 4,42,512/ all inclusive.

o The civil and M.S. Iron work for “Provision of Fireescape in the rear staircase from 4th flooronwards” as mentioned at S.No.(4) above wasgot done from M/s. Intesign at a cost of Rs.3,14,280/ all inclusive.

After completed all the above said work the NOCfrom Delhi Fire Services has been received.

· Installation of Diesel Generator Set for 3rd floorexclusively for QCI as approved by the BSC andFSC. But the same was not installed due to Govtof NCT has banned all diesel generator set forimproving the air quality in Delhi.

· Renovation work at IMA Club and Langue of IMABuilding at New Delhi has been completed andinaugurated by National President, IMA.

· Letter received from Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare, regarding refund of unspentamount of RNTCP Grant lying with IMA. We haverefunded an amount of Rs. 2.30 Cr., and allliabilities have been cleared.

· The visit of IMA leaders including, NationalPresident (Elect), Dr Ravi Wankhedkar,Chairman, Building Standing Committee, Dr.

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Report of IMA Building at New Delhi - Dr Ashwini Kumar Dalmiya, Honorary Joint Secretary, IMA

I am thankful to National President, IMA, Dr K KAggarwal and Honorary Secretary General, IMA, Dr RN Tandon, for having bestowed their faith in myabilities and assigning the responsibility ofmaintenance of the IMA Building and Guest Houseat New Delhi.

Since my taking over, the following activities havebeen completed:

· The IMA Flag now flutters atop a 60feet high flagpole installed in the premises of the IMA House.

· Necessary legal notices have been served to ourtenants M/s. Arth Buisiness News Channelregarding payments of pending rent by them.

· The work related to repair and replacement of FireSafety System installed in IMA HQs. Building hasbeen completed and the NOC from Delhi FireServices is awaited.

· Procedures are being undertaken to install a DieselGenerator Set for 3rd floor exclusively for QCI asapproved by the BSC and FSC.

· Thorough repair of Main Hall of IMA Building atNew Delhi has been completed and bookings arebeing taken now in the renovated Main Hall.

· The seats of the AKN Sinha Auditorium have beenchanged, flooring redone, sound system and fixedprojection system have been installed.

· The bathroom of Presidential Suite has beentotally revamped and now has a very lively feel.

· Process is under way to procure proposals forvarious renovation work i.e. Parapet / boundarywall / Committee room and Dining Hall in IMABuilding (Hqrs), New Delhi.

· Efforts are bing made to rectify the sewage systemof the Building through authorities.

I also thank this august House for allowing me topresent this status report of IMA Building at NewDelhi as the Honorary Joint Secretary incharge of this

Building.

All members of IMA resident in Delhi or who cometo Delhi feel the warmth of home when they cometo IMA Building. It becomes our bounden duty toensure and always maintain that warmth alongwiththe serenity. Also, our quality of work is directlylinked to our work surroundings to a great extent.

Keeping all this in view, it was felt that we shouldcarry out some renovations in our Building. Thestatus report of these works are as follows:

Renovations in IMA HQs.• The firstfloor Main hall has been completely

renovated so that we can derive more businessfrom it with the totally new and fresh appearance

• 300 new chairs have been purchased for the MainHall to attract regular student business too

• Minor repair work has been done in the AKNSinha Auditorium.

• Every year the National President appoints hisCounci l of Advisors for the year. NationalPresident ’s office cum Suite is now totallyrenovated for use by the National Presidents.This place is now a thorough professionalworkplace with attached work desks for staff andadvisors attached to the National President andproper retiring facility for the National Presidentand his personal guests.

• Planning work is underway for completeoverhaul of the IMA Sewage system which datesback to the era when this building wasconstructed.

• Work is about to begin for renovation of IMAKitchen, Cafeteria and Committee Room afterthrough screening of vendors and the ratesquoted by them.

• Piped Natural Gas Connection has been appliedfor by us for the Building which would ease thework of IMA catering service to a great extentand will make it most safe.

• I have the greatest relief and pleasure to inform


Bakulesh S Mehta and one office bearer to bedeputed from IMA HQs. to IMA Building atCalcutta to oversee the need of repairs in IMABuilding at Kolkata is visited and their report yetto be received.

· Pay revision of staff of IMA and its Wings hasbeen implemented w.e.f. 1st October, 2017. Thewage for contractual staff and daily wage staffalso hike as per Minimum Wages Act, passed byGovernment of NCT.

· As approved by the Committee in its meetingheld at Kolkata, public health relatedadvertisements were published by IMAvigorously in major dailies, like Indian Expressand Hindustan Times / Business Standard.

Dr. R.N.Tandon Dr. V.K. MongaHony Secy General Hony Finance Secy

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that the IMA Building at New Delhi is now fullyFire Safe as per the statutory requirements ofthe Delhi Fire Services department. However,an excess of expenditure to the tune of nearly 8lakhs of rupees over the initial proposedexpense of nearly 8 lakhs plus taxes has beenincurred. I seek the sanction of this august Housefor the same.

While carrying out / awarding the above works,utmost care has been taken to ensure completetransparency and foolproof methods in order to getthe best work at lowest prices.

It pains me to inform that one of our tenants, M/s.Arth Business News Channel have defaulted on theirpayments for extremely long period now and wewere left with no choice except to approach theHon’ble High Court of Delhi for possession of thepremises.Administrative report:1. We have employed Mr. Vishal Sharma on thepost of Manager, IMA Catering Services on a trialbasis for one month. He is on trial extension as ofnow.2. One Utensil Cleaner, Mr. Rajkumar left thejob due to personal reasons and he had to bereplaced by another Utensil Cleaner, Mr. Iqbal.

3. For maintenance of the IMA Building, wehad to employ one Attendant, Mr Karan on dailywages.

I take this opportunity to thank my mentor and guideDr K K Aggarwal, National President who has reposedhis faith in me all through my tenure. Our HonorarySecretary General, IMA, Dr R N Tandon has been apillar of extremely positive guidance and backing inmy endeavours as incharge of this Building. I will belacking in my moral duties, if I fail to acknowledgeand thank our Honorary Finance Secretary, Dr V KMonga and my fellow office bearers, Dr RameshDutta, Dr Vinod Khetrapal, Dr Naresh Chawla, Dr B BGupta, Dr A P Singh and Dr Manjul Mehta alongwithour immensely learned and experienced PrincipalAdvisor, Dr N V Kamat, all of whom have alwaysguided me in the discharge of my duties.

Our staff in IMA Building deserve a special mentionwithout whom it would not have been possible tocarry out my above duties. Mr. Anil Pawar and Mr A KPandey worked tirelessly to help us out. A specialthanks to Mr. Sanjay Sharma of our office.

I seek the blessings of this esteemed House andinvite them and our fellow colleagues in IMA fromall over the country to come to Delhi and stay in theirown IMA Guest House.

Dr Ashwini Kumar DalmiyaHonorary Joint Secretary, IMA


It is the proud privilege and great honor of IMAHQ’sBuilding, Kolkata to present the activity report onthe Administrational matter, proper functioning andAudited Accounts of IMAHQ’s Building, Kolkatabefore this august gathering of the 78th meeting ofthe Central Council of I.M.A. being held in Mumbai.

Renovation Works done & needed:- The mainstructure of the building outside and roof’s top workshave been done partly and more repairing works areneeded to be done. The height of the boundary wallsneed to be raised. The meter box installation areashould be covered with permanent structures. Therepairment of maximum number of the doors andwindows are to be needed urgently. Only the frontside of the main building has been painted. Theother three sides are to be painted. Some of therenovation works have been done but major portionsare to be renovated.

The NonA/C double bedded room, (Dormitory) theroom no5 ,has been converted to a Deluxe roomand is opened for booking.

Activity Report of IMAHQ Building, Kolkata

For the roof top shed, boundary wall & pavement onall four sides of the Building , permanent structuresfor covering the meter box area, renovation andupgradation of all the rooms along with painting ofthe whole building around Rs. 30 lakhs is needed forthe same. The details of the expenditure forrenovation along with the Quatations has alreadybeen sent to IMAHQ and we are waiting for approvalfor the same from the concerned authorities ofIMAHQ.

Hence we require a fund of 30 lakhs to make theprestigious Heritage IMAHQ, Kolkata building tomake it a standard one.

Staff related matters:- IMA guest house requiresround the clock service. We have only 3 attendants,2 Staffs. And 1 contractual staff. We need morepermanent staffs to run the guest house smoothly.

The EPF and Related Issue:- The disputed EPFand related issue has been settled amicably inconsultation with the concerned authorities by JIMA,IMAHQ Building. Kolkata & Your Health locally.

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Liabilities :- There are no liabilities of IMAHQr‘sat Kolkata till date except the EPF issue which hasbeen amicably settled and major parts of the Dueshave already been cleared.

Revision of the Guest House rent :- With thepermission of the concerned Authority of IMAHQ therevised rate of the rent of IMHQ’s Guest House atKolkata is as follows:

Room No Room type Bed Existing rate/Bed

1 Deluxe room Single bed Rs. 800/

2 Deluxe room Double bed Rs. 700/

3 A/C Ordinary room Triple bed Rs. 600/


5 Deluxe room Double bed Rs. 700/


7 A/C Ordinary room Four bed Rs. 600/

8 A/C Ordinary room Four bed Rs. 600/

Space lying vacant:- In the Basement area thereis a space of about 1000 Sq. feet area is lying vacant.We can use that area on Rent or Lease basis afterrenovation. We want the permission & Financial helpfrom IMAHQ so that we can earn more revenue fromthat vacant area for the greater interest of IMAHQ.

We can ask for quotation for renovation of that areaafter getting permission from the concernedauthority The Super Cassettes Industries Private Ltd.Also vacated their in rented room ( 1678 sq. ft.) inground floor. The final adjustable security deposit isto be realized. The refundable interest free securitydeposit has already been refunded to them.

Official visit & follow up :- Many of the IMAHQOffice bearers including Past National Presidents ,Past HSGs & other Leaders of IMAHQr‘s had thecourtesy visit to this Prestigious & Heritage IMAHQ‘sGuest House at Kolkata. They all have agreed aboutthe necessity of renovation of this Guest House onan urgent basis. We appeal to the National IMALeaders , particularly to the National President & HSGto take up the matter immediately.

My sincere thanks to Padmashree Dr. K. K.Agarwal, National President, Dr. Ravi Wankhedkar,the incoming National President, Dr. R. N. Tandon,

our dynamic Hony. Secretary General, Dr. A.K.M.Pillai, Past IMA National President, Dr. V. K. Monga,Hony. Finance Secretary, IMAHQ and all the IMANational Leaders for their full support in running theguest house smoothly. I am also grateful to Dr. KetanD. Desai, the leader of the IMA leaders & ImmediatePast President, World Medical Association for hisendless blessing on us. I also extend my thanks to allthe Office Bearers Of IMAHQ stationed at Kolkatanamely Dr. Santanu Sen, Hony. Jt. Finance Secretary,IMAHQ, Dr. Dilip Dutta, Hony. Editor, JIMA, Dr. AshokeKumar Chatterjee, Hony. Editor, Your Health, Dr.Kakoli Mandal (Sen), Hony. Secretary, JIMA, Dr.Minakshi Gangopadhyay, Hony. Secretary, YourHealth, Dr. Susil Kumar Mandal, IMA Bengal StatePresident, Dr. Pijus Kanti Roy, Immediate Past IMABengal State President & Chairman, BuildingCommittee of IMAHQ Guest House at Kolkata fortheir constant whole hearted support. Thanks alsoto all the Office Staffs of IMAHQ Building at Kolkata,JIMA and Your Health for their full cooperationduring this periode.

Dr. Santosh Kumar MandalHony. Jt. Secretary, IMAHQ, Kolkata.

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Revised Payscales : On the request received fromthe staff members of IMA to increase their payscales,the Finance Standing Committee of IMA during itsmeeting held in 2016 and Central Council at its 77thMeeting held in Amritsar on 27th & 28th December,2016 authorized National President and HonorarySecretary General of IMA to implement the revisionof payscales of staff of IMA and its Wings inaccordance with the provisions of 7th Central PayCommission. The same were approved by the CentralWorking Committee of IMA at its 217th meeting heldat Kolkata on 15th April, 2017.

Accordingly, revised payscales were implementedin IMA (HQs.) and its Wings from 1st October, 2017.

Retirement: This year, the following staff memebrshave since attained superannuation after attainingretirement age:

Mrs. Geeta Nigam, Front Desk Officer, IMA

Mrs. Veena Gupta, Asstt. Manager, IMA

Mrs. Usha Gupta, Executive Officer, IMA

Mr. C.S.Rawat, Sr. Caretaker, IMA

They were given a suitable farewell and all their dueswere cleared at the time of their retirement.

Staff Gettogether : Holi and Diwali Milan wasobserved by Office Bearers and Staff members ofIMA.

Minutes of meeting of office bearers of TeamDigital IMA with the staff of IMA HQs. held on

Monday, January 16, 2017 at IMA House, I.P. Marg,New Delhi

A meeting of all staff members of IMA HQs. with theoffice bearers of Team Digital IMA was organised on16.1.2017 at IMA House, New Delhi.

The meeting was attended by the following Officebearers of IMA: 1. Dr R N Tandon, Hony. Secretary General, IMA2. Dr V K Monga, Hony. Finance Secretary, IMA3. Dr Anil Goyal, Hony. Joint Secretary, IMA4. Dr Vinod Khetarpal, Hony. Joint Secretary, IMA5. Dr Ashwini Kumar Dalmiya, Hony. Joint Secretary,

IMA6. Dr Manjul Mehta, Hony. Joint Finance Secretary,

IMA7. Dr Dinesh Sahai, Hony. Asstt. Secretary, IMA8. Dr Amrit Pal Singh, Hony. Asstt. Secretary, IMA9. Dr Naresh Chawla, Hony. Joint Secretary, IMA

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Report of H. R. Activities related to staff of IMA HQs., New Delhi

10. Dr Ramesh Dutta, Hony. Joint Secretary, IMA AMS11. Dr N V Kamat, Principal Advisor, IMAHQs

The HSG welcomed all the office bearers presentand introduced them to the IMA Staff.

HSG expressed his desire that all the staff membersshould come forward with proposals for acceptanceof additional responsibilities which they canshoulder in view of imminent shortage of staff dueto the approaching retirement of some of staff thisyear.

Then all the staff members were asked to introducethemselves to the new officebearers along withwork assigned to them.

After the meeting, the following points wereemphasized:

1. Need is felt for proper training of all staff inmodern day management of office affairs. Dr AnilGoyal to work out a system for the same.

2. The zeal and enthusiasm to carry out even thework currently assigned to the staff is lacking inthem. There is a need of sincerity among thestaff to accept additional responsibilities andcarry them out honestly in addition to the jobscurrently assigned to them.

3. HSG requested all staff members to control thepitch of their volume in IMA premises as it wasdifficult to tolerate the same

4. It is proposed to devise some strategy fordeclaring “Worker of the month” in all levels ofpayscales to infuse enthusiasm among the stafffor efficient working.

5. All staff members of the HFC section should beselfsufficient to handle all types of membershiprequests from the section without the need ofassistance from their section incharge.

6. System to be devised for common printer forL.M.Certificates in HFC section and arrangementfor backup so that work does not get hamperedin case of breakdown of the same.

7. All inward dak to be diarised and distributedpreferably on the day of receipt in IMA itself toensure faster action on the same.

8. System to be devised and strictly followed forfollow up of movement of dak from one desk toother or one section to other until it is finallydisposed off and filed.

9. System to be devised by all Heads of thedepartments to ensure disposal of all jobs in a

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timebound manner

10. Minimize usage of paper in IMA office as far aspossible – All Heads of departments to suggestways to do so in their respective departments

11. System to be devised so that there is a uniformityin volume of jobs assigned to all staff membersof IMA so that no staff us unduly overburdenedwhereas others are somewhat relaxed

12. The capabilities of all staff members to berevisited so that they can be used to the fullestin existing additional and new assignments andprojects planned. A special mention was madeto the assignment of upcoming proposal toconnect IMA HQs. to all State and local brancheson a regular basis through Video conferencingetc. It was felt that the calibre of some staff likeMr. Anand Bakshi can be upgraded throughtraining etc. to use their services for upcomingproposed jobs in IMA

13. All department heads to work out and proposetraining schedules for their subordinates by theend of this week so that they can be utilised foradditional assignments

14. The incharge of accounts section was advised toassign additional duties to the current staffdeputed in his section under consultation withHonorary Finance Secretary, Dr V K Monga.

15. There was felt a need for Work Manual foraccounts staff in order to extract the maximumoutput from the staff employed in the accountsdepartment. HFS to look into the same.

16. The incharge of accounts section was asked toensure that the Cashier’s desk be digitised usingthe Tally accounts software package installed inIMA HQs. for immediate updation of cashtransactions in the software.

17. Receptionist Ms. Geeta Nigam was advised toidentify and prepare some other staff member

in consultation with Building incharge as herreplacement after her retirement.

18. Process to be initiated by IMA Buildingdepartment for purchase of 2 chordlessmicrophones for IMA Convention centre

19. IMA Building to be declared as Zero ToleranceZone for Tobacco usage – all staff to strictlyadhere to this. All outsiders and tenants to bestrongly requested to observe “No Tobacco”norms in IMA premises

20. Special care to be taken to ensure best hygienein IMA kitchen. Building and Kitchen incharge toundertake all steps to ensure the same inconsultation with HJS, Dr Ashwini Dalmiya

21. Proposal to be worked out and put up forcomplete coverage of the IMA Building underCCTV. Building incharge to work out the sameand present the figures.

22. Work for proper sewage pipe line for IMA to betaken up as fast as possible. Dr Ashwini Dalmiyainformed that the same has already been takenup and will take some time.

23. Ways to be proposed for advertising andpromotion of the IMA Jan Aushadhi Centreamongst the general public passing by the busyITO area around IMA Building.

24. All department heads to prepare a statement ofhuman resources and machines alongwithcurrent jobs assigned the staff in theirdepartments and submit the same toadministration section by the end of this weekfor compilation and presenting to Dr Anil Goyalfor HR scrutiny by him.

25. All above jobs related to the heads ofdepartments to be completed by the end of thisweek.

Dr Anil GoyalHonorary Joint Secretary, IMA

Report on Formation, Change in name and Merger of Local Branches, IMA

Formation of State Branch

S.NO. Name State Date of Formation

1. Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh 23/07/2017

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Formation of Local Branch

S.NO. Name State Date of Formation

1. WestSiang Arunachal Pradesh 23/07/2017

2. EastKameng Arunachal Pradesh 23/07/2017

3. EastSiang Arunachal Pradesh 23/07/2017

4. Krishnaraja Pura (Bengaluru) Karnataka 09/08/2017

5. KAIMS Karwar Karnataka 23/08/2017

6. Whitefield (Bangluru) Karnataka 17/12/2017

7. Channagiri Karnataka 23/08/2017

8. Uran Maharashtra 14/07/2017

Dr. Vinod Khetarpal Hony. Joint Secretary, IMA

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Activity Report of IMA CGP Headquarters, Chennai

MembershipTotal Membership as on September 10th 2017 is20,917 spreading over States.New MembersEnrolled from January 2017 till date is 80 members.Office Bearers Meet at New Delhi on 15th April 2017 Dr. V.C. Shanmuganandan, Dean Dr. N. Muthurajan, Joint SecretaryAnd myself attended and presented our activites.IMA CGP HQRS conducting the following courses· Primary Care Cardiology· Primary Care Echocardiography· Diabetes And Non Communicable Disease· PGDEM, George Washing Done University· IPPC, Sydney University, AustraliaExamination conducted for practical cardiology,Echocardiography, Diabetes & NCD, IPPC, and MRCGPCourses.Graduation Function:Conducted at IMA Hall Thiruchirapalli on 30/07/2017,Certificate distributed by Dr. K. Meena, Former ViceChancellor Barathidasan University who deliveredconvocation address. Our Dean Dr. V.C.Shanmuganandan, Dr. S. Arulraj, Past NationalPresident , Dr. M.S. Ashraf, Past National V icePresident, Dr. K. Prakasam, National Vice President,Dr. T.N. Ravisankar, State President IMA TNSB, Dr.J.A. Jayalal, Academic Coordinator, Dr. N.Muthurajan & Dr. B. Sridhar were Participated in thefunction.IMA CGP Tamil Nadu Sub Faculty ActivitiesCourses Conducted· Practical cardiology· Echocardiography· Sexual Medicine· Emergency Medicine· Reproductive medicine· Diabetology· Practical Toxicology· Clinical Endocrinology

4 Zonal CGP Conferences Conducted at Tamilnaduthis year, at Erode, Trichy, Villupuram and Tirunelveli.Evarsity:Online Certificate Course is being conducted byMEDRC, Hyderabad.A Coordination meeting between IMACGP officebearers and official of MEDRC held at Hyderabad on05/08/2017 and discussed about improving the courseand to increase enrolment for effective functioning.In housing training we be plant at selected hospitalsvarious city in of country.GPCON 2017 (National Conference of IMACGP 2017)Organised by IMA Trivandrum/ IMA Kerala Statebranch on 16th & 17th of September 2017 at Kovalam,Dr.John Panickar, as organising Chairman, Dr. VinayRanjan, as General Coordinator, Dr. G.S.Vijayakrishnan, as organising Secretary.

Highlights of Conference:Recent advances in the management of various lifestyle disease and viral infections.The first Dr. V.C. Velayutham Pillai, Oration is beinginstituted by IMA Kerala State Branch, Which will bedelivered by Dr.Ravi Wankhedkar, our NationalPresident elect.Convocation for the Hony. FCGP candidates will beheld during the conference on 16th September 2017evening.Governing Council meeting also arranged in the samevenue on 16th Sept. 2017.IMA CGP Maharashtra is organsing CGP Conferenceat Mumbai on 16th & 17th Sep. 2017.Study Tour Organised to South Africa From 2nd to 8th October2017, 35 members participating.

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all new members enrolled in IMA will be given afree membership in IMA CGP or AMS.Existing IMA members can be enrolled in IMA CGP ata concessional rate of Rs:1000/ this year till Dec 2017only.New Courses:

This Year we are planning to conduct BLS &ALS courses after adequate enrolment.Tamilnadu CGP faculty is planning for a Certificatecourse in mental health.

Dr.V.C.Shanmganandan Dr.R.GunasekaranDean, IMA CGP HQRS National Secretary

Agenda Item No. B-25Activity Report of IMA AMS HQRS

AIMS of IMA AMS:Ø Unity in the IMAØ Image of IMAØ To increase of Life Members & Fellowship in

IMA AMSØ To promote Orations in IMA AMSØ To promote Update latest knowledge their

specialities and update latest skills theirspecialities

Ø Conducting C.M.Es all over IndiaØ Conducting various Courses by IMA AMS

I am happy to inform to you during our tenurefive branches were inaugurated from 1st Jan 2017to till date new branches are 1. Bhusawal 2.Chembur in Maharashtra, 3. Raipur inChhattisgarh 4. Thaliparamba 5. Malappuram inKerala State has opened.

Membership: Currently there are 19 State Chapterswith (175) Branch Chapters of AMS with Membershipof 12895 as on 31st Oct 2017.

TOTAL as on 31-10-2017

S. No State Name Life Members & Associate LM Fellows of IMA AMS Professors of IMA AMS

1

AP

316

37 3

2 TELAGANA 436 96 18 3 ASSAM 222 41 2 4 BENGAL 769 210 4 5 BIHAR 540 246 6 CHANDIGARH 41 14 1 7 CHATTISGARH 178 24 4 8 DELHI 685 234 9 GUJARAT 358 51 10 GOA 3 3 11 HARYANA 836 176 17 12 HP 2 1 13 J & K 3 - 14 JHARKHAND 145 51 1 15 KARNATAKA 818 158 16 KERALA 2658 102 2 17 MP 110 27 18 MANIPUR 10 5 19 MAHARASHTRA 1587 100 8 20 ORISSA 206 40 2 21 OVEERSEAS 58 53 22 PUNJAB 222 69 23 RAJASTHAN 64 18 3 24 TAMILNADU 1142 322 9 25 TRIPURA 3 3 26 UP 1253 173 3 27 UTTARANCHAL 230 4

Total 12895 2258 77 TOP - 10 Branches

1. Kerala 6. Karnataka 2. Maharashtra 7. Bengal 3. Uttar Pradesh 8. Delhi 4. Tamil Nadu 9. Bihar

5. Haryana 10. Telangana

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Fee Details:

IMA H.Qrs was decided in CWC Meet at Agra everystate chapter to be send IMA AMS H.Qrs Share onlyRs. 400/ and Fellowship Share only Rs. 2000/.

Now onwards I request to all the States to send IMAAMS Life Membership fee H.Qrs share is Rs. 400/only and direct member share is Rs. 700/, andFellowship fee only H.Qrs share is Rs. 2000/ anddirect members share is Rs. 3500/, no share forprofessorship.

Latest information of IMA AMS Life Membership

IMA old life members (up to 31st Dec 2016) areeligible for IMA AMS free life membership. Because

of National President Dr. K. K. Aggarwal instructions.Please enclose Xerox copies of IMA Membership andPG degree/Diploma Certificate, MCI RegistrationCertificate and DD of Rs.100/ in favour of “IMA AMS”payable at Hyderabad for Certificate making charges& postal & service charges. New Life member’s feeas it is.

Non enrollment of Members in IMA AMS during theyears 2009-to till date:

Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura. I appealand request the Presidents and Secretaries of thesaid IMA State Branches to increase membership.

Total Life Memberships, Fellowships & Professorships received as on till date Life Memberships - 12895 1st Jan 2017 to till date - 252 Fellowships - 2258 1st Jan 2017 to till date - 54 Professorships - 87 1st Jan 2017 to till date - 15

IMA AMS Courses

IMA AMS conducting only Speciality Courses. Thesecourses are not recognized by MCI, These coursesare to improve their Knowledge and skills inrespective fields the duration of course is one year.

Courses Fees Structure

1. 40% to the AMS Hqrs at the time of courseregistration.

2. 40% to Hospital/Directors conducting thecourse (Classes)

3. 20% Office expenses for Courses

Following is the list of AMS Courses.

1. Infertility

2. Fluorescein Angiography

3. Laser Photocoagulation in Retinal

4. Excismer, Laser & Lasik Surgery

5. Phacoemulsification

6. Training in Noninvasive Cardiology,Echocardiography, TMT, etc., Critical Care inCardiology, Advance Microear Surgery,

7. Functional Endoscopic Sinus

8. Laser in ENT

9. TrachoBronchial. Rhinoplasty Joint Replacement

10.Orthoscopic

11. Spine Surgery

12. 2D Echo

13.Upper GI Endoscopy——— a. Basic b. Advanced

14. Laparoscopy———————— a. Basic b.Advanced

15. Ultrasonography

16. Rheumatology

17. Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology (FPC)

All Speciality Courses conducted by State IMA AMSonly. All State Chairman & Secretaries of IMA AMS toconduct various Speciality Courses by taking helpfrom IMA AMS Hqrs and register courses in the IMAAMS Hqrs office. Send 40% course money towardsHqrs share. The rest of 60% money for your coursesexpenditure save some money and increase IMAAMS activities in your State level and Branches level.Update your State doctors with the latest knowledgeand skills in their respective fields. The fellowshipcourse certificates will be issued by IMA AMS H.Qrsonly. Chairman & Secretary of IMA AMS H.Qrssignatures are compulsory on the certificates. Incertificate distribution ceremony invite to NationalLeaders and IMA AMS Hqrs leaders to the function.

AMS Fellowship & Professorship:

I request all the States to gear up with more memberenrollment, Life Memberships, Fellowships andProfessorships. You can download Application formsfrom AMS website www.imaams.org.

Every year we will give Hony. Professorships toeligible candidates, who can apply for professorship.The Associate Life member is not eligible forProfessorship and also who have not completed 25years in PG or Diploma that member is not eligiblefor Professorship. This year onwards IMAProfessorships approved by IMA AccreditationCouncil, New Delhi. Please send filled applicationform along with required documents send to Hony.

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Secretary IMA Hqrs, New Delhi address and one copysend to Hony. Secretary IMA AMS Hqrs, Hyderabadaddress on or before 31st July.

Hony. Secretary IMA AMS Head Qrs Activities

Dr. V. S. Rao, IMA AMS Hon. Secretary SwearingCeremony on 29th December 2016 at Amritsar withNational Conference 2016(NATCON)

Hony. Secretary IMA AMS Head Qrs Activities

1. Dr. V. S. Rao, IMA AMS Hon. SecretarySwearing Ceremony on 29th December 2016 atAmritsar with National Conference 2016(NATCON)

2. Charge taken by Dr. V. S. Rao as Hony.Secretary of IMA AMS H.Qrs on 30th December 2016

3. Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsand Dr. M. S. Hari Babu attended “Foundation DayOration” held on 6th & 7th January at IMA House, NewDelhi.

4. We, IMA AMS H.Qrs protest was greatsuccess and all the medical students (Osmania &Gandhi Hospital) took part very actively in thisprogramme on 1st Feb 2017 NO TO NEXT.

5. Dr. K. K. Aggarwal , National President visitedHyderabad on 25th Jan 2017 at Dr. Reddys labs,Ameerpet centre, Dr. V. S. Rao and Dr. M. S. Hari Babuand other State office Bearers felicitated to NationalPresident Dr. K. K. Aggarwal

6. Dr. Joseph Mani, Chairman IMA AMS H.Qrsand Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the Meeting of IMA All wings,Accreditation Council and Academic Council held on5th Feb 2017 at New Delhi.

7. Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the IMA AMS Jharkhand Annual StateConference as Chief Guest on 5th March 2017 atDhanbad, Jharkhand State.

In the Press Meet Dr. V. S. Rao address:

8. 1st Governing Council Meeting along withGraduation ceremony held on 26th March 2017 atHotel The Plaza, Hyderabad, under the Chairmanshipof Dr. Joseph Mani and Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. SecretaryIMA AMS H.Qrs. Chief Guest by Dr. R. N. Tandon,Guest of Honours Dr. N. Appa Rao Garu, NationalLeader of IMA, Dr. Gurubachan Singh, Officer onSpecial Duty (OSD), Dr. Narsinga Reddy, PresidentIMA Telangana State, Dr. A. Bharath Prakash, Hony.General Secretary IMA Telangana State, Dr. P. PullaRao, Past Secretary IMA AMS and Dr. E. Prabhavathi,Past Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrs and Other Officebearers are attended this meeting.

9. Dr. Joseph Mani, Chairman IMA AMS HG.Qrsand Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the President Action Committee Meeting

of IMA Chairman & Secretaries of All wings &President & Secretaries of All IMA State chapters on1st & 2nd April 2017 at Delhi.

10. Dr. Joseph Mani, Chairman IMA AMS HG.Qrs,Dr. M.S. Hari Babu, Vice Chairman IMA AMS H.Qrsand Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the Finance Committee Meeting andCentral Working Committee Meeting on 15th & 16th

April 2017 at Kolkata, West Bengal. Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony.Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrs submitted 1 year balancesheet i.e. 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017.

11. As per direction given by IMA HQ New Delhi,Dr. V. S. Rao, Hon. Secretary IMA AMS Hqrs and Dr. M.S. Hari Babu, Vice Chairman IMA AMS H.Qrs bearedblack badges on 27th April 2017 NATIONAL BLACK DAYagainst New W B Clinical Establishment 2017.

12. Dr. Joseph Mani, Chairman IMA AMS H.Qrs,Dr. M.S. Hari Babu, Vice Chairman IMA AMS H.Qrsand Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the “Dilli Chalo” on 6th June 2017 at Delhi.

AMSCON-2017

13. IMA AMSCON 2017 was held in Kozhikode,Kerala State on 19th and 20th August 2017 hosted byKozhikode branch. Dr. K.P. Balakrishnan as Org.Chairman and Dr. Roy R. Chandran as Org. Secretary.A grand two day event with Workshops,Inauguration, Convocation and Banquet on 19th andOne Day CME and Governing Council Meeting on20th. The Chief Guest was Dr. K. Gopakumar, ViceChancellor Central University, Kasargod, Guest ofHonour Dr. K. K. Aggarwal, National President IMAHqrs. National Secretary Dr R.N.Tandon, FinanceSecretary Dr. Monga, AMS National Chairman Dr.Joseph Mani, National Secretary Dr. V.S.Rao, Imm.Past President & Chairman IMA AccreditationCouncil Dr. A. Marthanda Pillai, IMA State PresidentDr. V.G. Pradeep Kumar, Dr. E. Prabavathi, Dr MadhuChandarkar, and other National and State leaders anddelegates from various States and IMA branches ofKerala attended the conference. This year 54Fellowships were given and 236 Life Members wereenrolled from January to as on 19th August 2017.

19th August 2017 – 3 Workshops in the morning andInauguration, Convocation and Banquet in theEvening.

Convocation & Awards function of AMSCON-2017

Workshop – I

The Function inaugurated by Dr. Monga, Hon. FinanceSecretary, IMA National HQ, at Stare Care Hospital,Kozhikode.

Workshop II

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The Function inaugurated by Dr. K.K. Aggarwal, IMANational President at Hotel Raviz, Kozhikode.

Workshop - III

The Function inaugurated by Dr. R.N. Tandon, Hon.Secretary, IMA National, at ARMC IVF Fertility Centre,Puthiyara, Kozhikode.

2nd Governing Council Meeting held on 20th August2017 at Hotel Taj Gateway, Kozhikode, Kerala Stateat 9:30 AM under the Chairmanship of Dr. JosephMani and Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrs

Resolutions of the Governing Council Meeting heldon 20th August 2017

1. On the suggestion of the IMA NationalPresident Dr. K. K. Aggarwal in the recent AMSCON &Governing Council members all the States, Branchchapters should generate more money to supportthe academic activities like short duration courseshas to be encouraged in various specialities and aftertaking approval of IMA AMS Hqrs more and morecourses to be floated throughout India.

2. All Speciality Courses will conducted by StateIMA AMS only. All State Chairman & Secretaries ofIMA AMS to conduct various Speciality Courses bytaking help from IMA AMS Hqrs and register coursesin the IMA AMS Hqrs office. Send 40% course moneytowards Hqrs share. The rest of 60% money for yourcourses expenditure save some money and increaseAMS activities in your State level and Branches level.Update your State doctors with the latest knowledgeand skills in their respective fields. The fellowshipcourse certificates will be issued by IMA AMS H.Qrsonly. Chairman & Secretary of IMA AMS H.Qrssignatures are compulsory on the certificates.

3. Professorships selections will be decided byNational IMA Accreditation Committee, in thatcommittee Dr. V. S. Rao requested IMA AMS HqrsHony. Secretary should be included in theAccreditation Committee. All Governing Councilmembers including IMA National President andNational Secretary and IMA Accreditation CouncilChairman all are accepted.

On 20th we had a one day CME Programme at HotelTaj Gatway. This CME Programme Inaugurated byDr. K.K. Aggarwal, IMA National President. The CMEcovered 12 interesting topics and well attended.

14. Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony Secretary IMA AMS Hqrsattended the Finance Standing Committee on 22nd

September 2017 at New Delhi.

15. Dr. M.S. Hari Babu, Vice Chairman IMA AMSH.Qrs and Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the “CWC Meeting ” on 23rd & 24th

September 2017 at Delhi.

IMA AMS Telangana State Activities

1. Dr. V. S. Rao visited to Oasis infertility centreto explain rules & examination details

2. Dr. V. S. Rao visited to Surya Infertility Centreon 11th Jan 2017

3. According to IMA H.Qrs instructions, weinstructed all the IMA Branches of Telangana area toprotest to wearing the black badges on 17th January2017. In this regard on 17th January 2017 IMATelangana State President & Secretary Dr. T. NarsingaReddy and Dr. A. Bharath Prakash, other IMA doctorsand our self (IMA AMS HQrs) protested.

And also we submitted memorandum to CityCommissioner of Police.

4. IMA AMS State conducted CME Programmeon “Endocrine Update” on 11th & 12th Feb 2017 at ParkHotel, Somajiguda, Hyderabad. More than 250delegates were participated.

5. Dr. V. S. Rao, Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsattended the State Working Committee Meeting ofTelangana State held on 8th March 2017 atKothagudem.

6. IMA AMS Telangana State started inFellowship Certification Course in Laparoscopy forthe MS General Surgeons/MD, Gynecologists andDGO Doctors inauguration held on 8th July 2017 atIMA Building, IMA Mini Hall, Hyderabad. Guest ofHonors Dr. T. Narsinga Reddy, President IMATelangana State, Dr. A. Bharath Prakash, Hony.Secretary IMA Telangana State, Dr. M. S. Hari Babu,Vice Chairman IMA AMS Hqrs, Dr. V. S. Rao, SecretaryIMA AMS H.Qrs, Dr. Guru Bachan Singh, Officer inSpecial Duty, Dr. E. Prabhavathi, Past Secretary IMAAMS Hqrs and Dr. Raghavendra Rao, Professor ofLaparoscopy and other dignitaries are participated.The course will be for one year. Hands on experienceat National Institute of Gastroenterology & LiverDiseases, theory classes in IMA AMS Office.

2. According to IMA H.Qrs instructions, weinstructed all the IMA Branches of Telangana area toorganise the ”IMA Dawn to Dusk Satyagraha Fast” onOctober 2, 2017. In this regard on 2nd October 2017IMA Telangana State President & Secretary Dr. T.Narsinga Reddy and Dr. A. Bharath Prakash, and IMAAMS Telangana State Chairman & Secretary Dr. M. S.Hari Babu & Dr. V. S. Rao and other IMA doctorsorganized at Osmania Medical College.

Kerala State Activities

1. International symposium on Infectiousdiseases and antimicrobial stewardship was coorganised by AMS along with AIMS Kochi and IMAEdapally branch on 4th February 2017.

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2. EMS memorial Co operative hospitalPerinthalmanna along with AMS Kerala organisedstate level conference on hospital infection controlnamed ‘INFECON 2017’ on 26th February at HotelHilton Perinthalmanna.

3. IMA Thalassery branch chapter and IMAAMSconducted one day CME on the theme of medicalcomplications in pregnancy “Gravimed “ on 2nd

April,2017 at IMA Hall, Thalassery. IMAAMS statechairman,Dr.Surendrababu inaugurated theprogramme.

4. Lifeline hospital Adoor in association withAMS Kerala conducted All India Gynaec endoscopyworkshop named ‘ENDOLIFE 2017’ on 7th, 8th and 9th

of Apri l 2017. South zone vice president Dr.Radhamony chaired the inaugural session.

5. IMA Kerala State two new branch chapterswere formed and inaugurated. IMA Kerala StateChairman Dr. V P Surendrababu inaugurated the newbranch chapter at IMA Thaliparamba on 22nd March2017. New AMS branch chapter was formed at IMAMalappuram. The inauguration was done by IMAState President Dr. VG Pradeepkumar on 27th April2017. IMA AMS state secretary Dr. Roy R Chandranwas the guest of honour.

6. Lifeline hospital Adoor in association withAMS Kerala conducted All India Gynaec endoscopyworkshop named ‘ENDOLIFE 2017’ on 7th, 8th and 9th

of April 2017. IMA Kerala South zone vice presidentDr. Radhamony chaired the inaugural session. It wasattended by more than 300 delegates from all overIndia.

7. The IMA AMS Kerala state Mid ZoneConference named AMSCON2017 was hosted by IMAKunnamkulam on 30th April 2017. The inauguralCeremony commenced at 10.40 am with a prayer songby Pornami Mukesh. Flag salutation was done by thesecretary Dr.Shameer C Sulaiman. Branch PresidentDr Joshy Thomas welcomed the gathering. The IMAAMS State Chairman Dr.Surendra Babu V.P, in hispresidential address congratulatedIMA Kunnamkulam for taking up the conference in abig way. IMAAMS Report was presented by Dr RoyR Chandran state Secretary IMA AMS. Introductionof the CME was done by organizing Chairman Dr.K.R.Mukesh. The inauguration of the conference wasdone by the Mid zone V icePresident Dr.Cyriac Thomas. In his inauguralspeech Dr. Cyriac Thomas emphasised thesignificance of IMA – AMS in promoting academicactivities. Vote of thanks was given by AMSCON org.Secretary Dr Rajagopal. 152 delegates attended theCME.

3. Academy of Medical Specialities South ZoneState level conference ‘Diabetes Update’s was heldat IMA Head Quarters Anayara, Trivandrum on 28thMay 2017. Dr John Panicker President IMATrivandrum welcomed the delegates. State SecretaryDr Samuel Koshy, State AMS Chairman Dr SurendraBabu, Secretary Dr Roy R Chandran, Dr Sreejith NKumar, Dr A.V Jayakrishnan ; Imm.Past StatePresident , Dr G S Vijayakrishnan; Secratary IMATrivandrum also addressed the gathering.

Chhattisgarh State Activates

1. IMA AMS Chattisgarh state have started aIMA AMS Magazine from this year. It is for the firsttime that any State Branch has come out with such amagazine. This Magzine was officially released in agrand ceremony by Hon .Home Minister of C.G ShriRAMSEWAK PAIKRA. Dr Ajay Tirki ,Mayor Ambikapuralso graced the occasion along with office bearers ofState IMA. President Dr Ajay Sahai,

President Elect Dr H.P. Saraf & Secretary IMACG Dr Hemant Chaterjee & many other EminentGuests.

2. IMA AMS Bhilai Branch chapter conducted agrand CME on “APPROACH TO HEADACHE” on22.4.2017 at Bhilai, Chhattisgarh State.

Payment of Share of Life Membership Fee &Fellowship fee for the year 1st January 2017 to 30th

April 2017 have been dispatched to all the StateChapters and their Branch Chapters.

Achievements:

1. New Life member is eligible to become afellow in the same year of convocation conductedby IMA AMS H.Qrs.

2. A minimum number of 10 members arerequired to form a new AMS local Branch Chapter.This to be informed to Hony. Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrsbefore starting the Branch.

3. A copy of IMA AMS Annals must be handedover to Governing Council members every year.

4. Any Certificate Fellowship Courseconducted by State Branches should obtainpermission from the H.Qrs prior to start theCertificate Course. And the Certificates issued at theend of the course should be duly signed by the officebearers of IMA AMS H.Qrs.

5. If the Member is not attending theconvocation, Certificates can be issued afterconvocation only.

6. State Branches advised to conductFellowship Courses

7. We are looking forward to start an oration tobe delivered at the time of AMSCON.

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IMA AKN SINHA INSTITUTE, PATNAActivities & Progress Report from 01-04-2017 to 31-08-2017

The Institute is working hard to fulfill its aims: -

1. Encourage Research in medical practice.2. Improving the standards of medical education.3. Coordinating with MCI and other Government Agencies.4. Strengthening The Present Post Graduate Certificate Courses (Postal Mode)5. Initiation of New Post Graduate Certificate Courses.

PROGRESS REPORT:The functioning of the Institute has been smooth and achievements encouraging. They are as follows: 1. From 1st April, 2017 to 31st August, 2017.

A) Letters 22000 (Personal letter to IMA Members of Kerala, West Bengal, & Gujarat) B) Advertisement in the Patna Journal of Medicine 03 C) Advertisement in the JIMA (Journal of Indian Medical Association) 01 D) Brochures 09 E) Enrolment in Courses 26 F) Number of Certificate issued after completion of the course 28

OFFICIAL ACTIVITY:

We have requested to Dr. S. Arulhraj, Past President, IMA HQ to improve the contents, course material ofthe running courses of the Institute likely – Clinical Cardiology, Clinical Diabetes, Rheumatology andGeriatrics Medicine. At the same he was also requested to help us to publish the course material of thesetwo branches i.e. ECG and Hospital Management. Communication awaited.

Dr. Raman Kumar VermaHony. Executive secretary,IMA AKN Sinha Institute, Patna.

8. Members aspiring to become fellows of AMSare requested to attend the convocation of AMSCONto receive their Fellowship Certificates in personwithout fail. Attendance at convocation is mandatoryfor all.

My sincere thanks to Dr. K. K. Aggarwal, NationalPresident IMA H.Qrs, Dr. Marthanda Pillai, Chairman,IMA Accreditation Council, Dr. R. N Tandon, Hon.Secretary General IMA H.Qrs, Dr. Joseph Mani,National Chairman of IMA AMS H.Qrs, Dr. M. S. HariBabu, Vice Chairman IMA AMS H.Qrs, Dr. RameshDutta, Executive Editor Dr. S. Lakhotia and Dr.

Gurubachan Singh, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) andDr. E. Prabhavathi, Past Secretary IMA AMS H.Qrs fortheir valuable suggestions and timely advises. Iextremely happy for the work done by our officestaff Mrs. N. Saritha, with their hard work and theirsupport I am able to conduct office activities verysmoothly.

Thank you very much

Jai Hind Jai IMA Jai IMA AMS

Dr. Joseph Mani Dr. V. S. RaoChairman Hony. Secretary

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Agenda Item No. B-27ACTIVITY REPORT OF YOUR HEALTH OF IMA PUBLICATION

It is the great honour of Your Health of IMAPublication Committee to present the activity reporton the administrative matter and functioning of YourHealth of IMA before the Central Council Meetingalongwith Finance Committee Meeting of the IMAHQ to be held at Mumbai.

We have been really trying our level best to for upliftment of Your Health of IMA Publication of in everyaspect. We are very grateful to our National Leaders,who have been very cooperateful and has alwaysextended their support on every requirement.

Publication of Your Health of IMA with Topic and theNames of the Guest Editors:

April 2017 DEPRESSION LET’S TALK Guest Editor: Dr. Vikash AgarwalMay 2017 WORLD ASTHMA DAY & NO TOBACCO DAY Guest Editor: Dr. Sarmishtha Bandopadhyay

June 2017 MENSTRUAL HYGIENE Guest Editor: Dr. Pallab Gangopadhyay

July 2017 CELEBRATE DOCTOR’S DAY Guest Editor: Dr. Manab Kumar Ghosh

August 2017 EYE DONATION FORTNIGHT Guest Editor: Dr. Keshab MukhopadhyaySeptember 2017 DEAFNESS Guest Editor: Dr. Sarmishtha Bandopadhyay

October 2017 BREAST CANCER Guest Editor: Dr. Vikash AgarwalNovember 2017 GERIATRIC CARE Guest Editor: Dr. Bharati Maitra

December 2017 Pediatric & Child Dr. Rina Ghosh

Circulation of Your Health of IMA (every month) –APR, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV & DEC2017:

We are dispatching the issue on the 05th & 06th day ofthe every calendar month, which are the prefixeddays of the Department of Post & Telegraph,Government of India.

We are sending it to the honourable office bearersof IMA Headquarters, IMA Central WorkingCommittee Members, all the State President andHonourary State Secretaries, besides our esteemedCentral Council Members and Subscribers.

We are also sending it to the Honourable Ministersof Government of India, Honourable Member of

Parliament (Loksabha & Rajyasabha, both),Department of Health & Family Welfare ofGovernment of West Bengal and other Departments,under the Government of West Bengal. All thehospitals, under the West Bengal State Government,are the recipients of all the issues of Your Health ofIMA Publication.

Most of the leading hospitals, medical allied groupand some corporates are also getting our dailyissues.

The 29 States, where Your Health of IMA Publicationhas already reached are:

Southern India Eastern India Central India Western India Northern India

Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala,

Tamil Nadu, Telengana

Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa,

West Bengal, Meghalaya,

Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram,

Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim

Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh

Gujarat, Maharashtra,

Rajasthan, Goa

Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar

Pradesh, Uttaranchal,

Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir

Circulation has increased to five thousand per month.

Financial Position

Financial position of Your Health of IMA Publication in this year (2017) is stable.

Please find the details (audited accounts for this period) attached herewith.

Academic Interest:

We have planned to continue work with more medical specialist organizations, medical allied group andcorporates.

Promotion and Launching Programmes:

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Period Topic Event & Venue Guest Editor

April 2017 DEPRESSION LET’S TALK 217th CWC Meeting & JIMACON, Oberoi Grand, Kolkata

Dr. Vikash Agarwal

May 2017 WORLD ASTHMA DAY & NO TOBACCO DAY

08th Annual Conference of Association of Physicians of North Bengal, Siliguri

Dr. Sarmishtha Bandopadhyay

June 2017 WORLD MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY

World Menstrual Hygiene Day, Auditorium of Lions International Club, Kolkata

Dr. Pallab Gangopadhyay

July 2017 CELEBRATING DOCTORS’ DAY

World Population Day, IMA Bidhan Nagar Branch, Saltlake

Dr. Manab Kumar Ghosh

August 2017 EYE DONATION FORTNIGHT

Observance of World Breast Feeding Week, IMA Tangra Topsia Dhapa Branch, Tangra Inst Kolkata

Dr. Keshab Mukhopadhyay

September 2017

DEAFNESS Meeting with Dept of Women Development Undertaking, Government of West Bengal on agenda of Geriatric Care at Your Health Office

Dr. Sarmishtha Bandopadhyay

October 2017

BREAST CANCER Apollo Gleneagles Hospital Dr. Vikash Agarwal

November 2017

GERIATRIC CARE Dr. B. C. Roy IMA House (Bidhan Bhawan)

Dr. Bharati Maitra

December 2017

Pediatric & Child College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, Kalyani

Dr. Rina Ghosh

Upcoming Agendas:

Reaching as much of more doctors, paramedicals and medical allied subjects, private hospitals, allied medical group, corporates, etc.

Involvement of school & college students and other youth (to catch them young).

Increase in advertisement and financial assistance of private hospitals and corporates.

Association of media industries, for which we have already appointed one media personality.

Dr. Minakshi GangopadhyaySecretary, Your Health of IMA

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Aims and Objectives of NPPS

• IMA National Professional Protection Schemehelp IMA members and to provide legal aid.

• It provides an atmosphere to practice without fearand gives sufficient security to its members.

• The scheme will contest civil, criminal, consumeror similar cases arising out of medical practice.

• It is unique in the history of Medical profession

• It work with state professional protection schemewithout interfering their function in the state buthelp the members jointly by giving additional

coverage in the National level.

MembershipTotal : 898Renewed : 697To be renewed : 301LitigationsProceedings completed : 6Pending Cases : 5New Cases : 2Appeals : 2

Managing Committee Meeting

On 28th December 2016 at Chandigarh

Report of National Professional Protection Scheme of IMA from 1st October 2016 to 31st October 2017.

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on 29.09.2017 Hotel grand, NewDelhi

BYE LAW AMENDMENTS PASSED IN THE STATECOUNCIL

1. Increase expense payable per case from Rs.5 Lakhs to 10 Lakhs and expense payable per yearfrom Rs. 10 Lakhs to 20 Lakhs.

2. Enable multiple units.

3. To introduce enhanced protection schemewith Rs. 50 lakhs expense payable at an yearlymembership of Rs. 15,000/.

Proposals for change in working pattern discussedin Managing Committee

4. Nominating State Coordinators in all Statesand Institute State funds for managing cases at Statelevel.

5. Bring out a publication and interactive webpages regarding litigations.

Accounts:

Audited accounts have been regularly submitted toIMA National Headquarters.

Office Bearers1. Dr. K.K.Agarwal National President, IMA

Hqs2. Dr. R.N.Tandon Hony. Secretary General,

IMA Hqs3. Dr. V.K.Monga Hony. Finance Secretary,

IMA Hqs4. Dr. Krishna Parate Chairman, NPPS5. Dr. K Jayaram Vice Chairman, NPPS6. Dr. A V Jayakrishnan Hony. Secretary, NPPS7. Dr. H Vinay Ranjan Finance Secretary,NPPSI have to thank our most beloved National PresidentDr. K.K. Aggarwal, Secretary General Dr.R.N.Tandon,Hon Finance Secretary Dr.V.K.Monga and ImmediatePast National President Dr.A.Marthanda Pillai fortheir support and encouragement. I am very muchindebted to my Chairman Dr.Krishna Parate and ViceChairman Dr.K. Jayaram for their timely advice andsupport. I have to thank Dr. Vinay Ranjan SchemeFinance officer for his constant support to run theScheme and looking after the accounts properly.

Dr.Jayakrishnan.A.V., Secretary, NPPS of IMA


Report of IMA Hospital Board of IndiaMeetings of IMA HBI

17.02.17 Internal Administration meeting of IMA HBI at IMA Hqs,New Delhi

23.02.17 13th HBI Board meeting,Pune 11.03.2017 Internal Meeting IMA HBI

07.04.2017 IMA HBI Insurance Summit at Hotel Lalit 09.07.2017 IMA HBI 14th Board meeting

06.08.2017 IMA HBI GST Seminar , Mumbai and IMA HBI Administrative meeting 06.09.2017 HBI Administration meeting and meet with Dr Harish Nadgarni CEO ,QCI

23.09.2017 IMA HBI Administration meeting, Hotel the grand,Vasanth Kunju,New Delhi

16.10.2017 Internal administration meeting of IMA HBI at IMA HBI Hqs,Mumbai 26.11.2017 15th directors Board meeting IMA HBI at IMA HQs,New Delhi

IMA Hospital Board of India

Internal Administration meeting

Venue : IMA HqsTime: 1 PM-3PM

New DelhiDate:17.02.2017

The following participated:

1. Dr K K Aggarwal, National President IMA

2. Dr R N Tandon, Hony . Secretary General IMA

3. Dr Vinay Aggarwal, Past National PresidentIMA

4. Dr V K Monga, Finance Secretary IMA

5. Dr R V Asokan, Chairman IMA HBI

6. Dr Jayesh Lele, Secretary IMA HBI

7. Dr Mangesh Pate, Treasurer IMA HBI

The administration meeting of IMA HBI was held atIMA hqs between 1PM-3PM on 17.02.2017.

Decisions:

1) It was decided to follow the existing formatregarding fund flow in IMA NABH Initiative.

a) Cheques from the hospitals shall be receivedin the name of IMA HBI.

b) The same will be forwarded to the NationalSecretary IMA HBI.

c) The payment for the technical agency shallbe reimbursed by the National Secretary IMA HBI .

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d) 10% of the money will be retained by IMAHBI as central share.

e) 10% of the money shall be sent back eitherto the IMA State Branch or IMA HBI State Chapterwhich ever the case may be.

2) The introductory offer for 1-25 bedshospitals in Maharashtra was ratified with validityin 3 months.

3) It was decided that National Secretary IMAHBI , Treasurer IMA HBI and Finance Secretary of IMAHqs shall operate the accounts in Delhi until the bankaccounts are opened in Mumbai. Either two of thesignatories will be sufficient to operate the accounts.

4) It was decided as per the advice of theChartered Accountant that rates and taxes asapplicable shall be collected on and above themoney collected from hospitals for IMA NABHInitiative to defray the service tax liability.

5) It was resolved that Chairman IMA HBI afterrelinquishing the post shall suo motto becomemember of the executive of the State Chapter ofthe IMA HBI.

Minutes of 13th Board Of Directors & Special InviteesMeeting held at 23.02.17 Pune

President Elect Dr. Ravi Wankhedkar called themeeting to order.

IMA Pune President Dr. Mohan Joshi welcomed alldelegates with floral bouquets.

1) Physician’s prayer : Dr. RajeevAggarwal, Director IMA HBI

Dr. Rajeev Agrawal read IMA Prayer.

2) Flag Salutation : Dr. Dinesh Thakare,Joint Secretary IMA HBI

Dr. Dinesh Thakare read flag salutation

3) Welcome address : Dr RaviWankhedkar,President Elect IMA Dr.Wankhedkar stated that HBI will now start runningsmoothly. Maharashtra HBI has started NABHaccreditation. Each director shall be given onesubject / area to work on.

4) Chairman’s opening remarks : Dr R VAsokan , Chairman IMA HBI

Dr. Asokan requested members to self- introduceone by one.

Dr. Asokan stated that name of Dr. Vinay Aggarwalwill be inserted in rules & bye laws of HBI as founderof HBI. Nursing homes are working in various citieswhich shall be networked beyond IRDA. We shallthink beyond IRDA. We shall network our hospitals

to an area where we can provide health services.

Dr. Vinay Aggarwal stated that HBI is now taking over.Accreditation is now must. FICCI, CII, AHPI, CAHO,etc. are also doing work in the area of accreditation.We shall have full day workshop on insurance, inviteall related parties. We shall concentrate on services,one voice and membership drive.

Dr. A. M. Pillai stated that Dr. Vinay Aggarwal is brainbehind HBI. Leadership in healthcare should betaken up by HBI. Otherwise, other associations willtake over. Membership need to increase.

Every State shall be represented. Every hospital shallbecome member. HBI has to play different roles. Allareas need to be addressed. Medical recordskeeping, etc. is addressed by accreditation. Financialcosting of each procedure shall be done scientificallybefore talking to insurance companies.

Dr. R. N. Tandon stated thanked Pune branch forhosting this meeting. He stated that we should findout reasons as to why other states are not yet joined.Most States have Nursing Home Fora which are doinggood job. They are related to IMA also. So manyregulations are coming up. Only IMA HBI isaddressing problems of small hospitals.Our effortsshould be such that everybody shall join us.

5) Minutes and activity report : Dr. Jayesh Lele,Secretary IMA HBI

Dr. Jayesh Lele thanked for his appointment asSecretary. He read out minutes of 12th Board meetingheld on 26.09.16. He stated that we requestedChairman Dr. Asokan to give special slab of 1 -25 bedswith Rs.30000 charges. He read out minutes ofInternal Administration Meeting held at HQs. on17.02.17. All minutes were passed unanimously. Hethanked all members for coming to this meeting.

Discussions:

Brainstorming sessions on issues in insurance sectorinitiated by Dr. A K Ravikumar

Dr.A. K. Ravikumar presented PPT on insurance.

Dr.Abul Hasan stated that insurance regulators arecausing closure of small hospitals as they can notaccept rates and conditions of insurance companies.We should have our own IMA as TPA.

Dr. V inay Agrawal stated that HBI is notrepresenting smaller hospitals only. Let’s bridgethe gap between small & big hospitals. We shall notsay that health care expenditure is major cause ofpoverty. IRDA shall recognise only qualifiedprofessionals as TPA. We can try for own TPA wherein all NABH certified shall be on our panel.

Dr.Vinod Shah stated that we should request IRDAto include domiciliary charges in General Practice.

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Then, it can include all GPs.

Dr.A.Pillai informed that in USA, 40% patients getdelayed treatment. We shall encourage Govt.hospitals to come out with empanelment ofmaximum hospitals by taking direct responsibilities.ECHS, CGHS, Other Govt. based schemes shallnegotiate to raise fees. All the schemes neglect OPDtreatment. Actually, OPD treatment is more ascatastrophic expenditure. Payments are delayed byTPA which are interest free. TPA shall pay intereston late payments. Good number of claims are deniedby these TPAs. Preventive treatment shall also bean aspect in insurance.

Dr. Prabhakara raised a query that how will we getqualified staff for accreditation.

Dr. Padma Iyer suggested that empanelment ofdoctors shall be implemented positively.

Dr. Sridhar stated that IMA can have own TPA. Entrylevel accreditation shall be taken up by all hospitals.Let’s help each other’s States for any problem.

Dr. Joseph stated that insurance is taken by high classpeople. They are paying Crores of rupees tocorporate hospitals. Govt. is trying for universalinsurance. HBI can take up this insurance with rightpackage by lobbying with Govt. & IRDA.

Dr. Dinesh Thakare stated that malpractice isrampant, because of high costing on one side andlower rates given by TPAs on other side, and istarnishing image of doctors providing servicesthrough TPAs.

Dr. C. L. Bhagat stated that costing od procedures,running hospital/ OT, etc. is must. HBI should publishcosting. Authorities want quality, but not ready togive charges. Giving package rates means givingguarantee which is against MCI rules.

Dr. A. Pillai supported Dr. Bhagat’s view that thecosting is must.

Dr. Pankaj Mutneja stated that IMA shall have ownTPA. All hospitals having entry level accreditationshall be given empanelment without anydiscrimination. There shall be full transparency.

Dr. Mangesh Pate stated that members are lookingat HBI with hope. Some companies are not givingempanelment and they are not giving sufficientreason also.

Dr. Arti Nimkar suggested that we can give a packageof full 9 months to a pregnant lady. Dr. Ravikumarinformed her that pregnancy is not covered underinsurance.

Dr. Rajeev Agrawal opined that we will not get GNMfor entry level accreditation. IMA shall accreditcourses for nurses. There shall be central redressal

committee of HBI with all Stakeholders in it. All TPAsshall have representative of IMA. Fee forempanelment shall be fixed.

Dr. Bhagat informed him that there is no need offees for empanelment. He stated further that IRDAshall ask all TPAs to empanel all NABH entry levelaccredited hospitals. TPAs shall have MBBS doctors.Some are doing malpractices and all are blamed. TPAsshall pay interest on late payments. Visiting chargesfor consultants shall be reasonable e.g. Rs.200. IMAown TPA will prove as pandora of controversies. ForCGHS rates, we shall ask the company to to declarewhat maximum charges they can pay?.

Dr. Mangesh Pate opined that the TPA and GYPSAshall be approached by IMA.

Dr. Sridhar informed that in one meeting Dr. Kalrasaid that they will not insist for GNM in entry levelaccreditation. Mr. Menon stated that nothing is givenis in writing but they are giving relaxation for GNM>

Dr. Ravikumar requested members to bring outinnovative ideas so that maximum population takeinsurance policies.

IMA NABH Initiative

Following states are working for NABH.

Kerala : Dr M E Sugathan

Tamilnadu : Dr C N Raja

Maharashtra : Dr Mangesh Pate

Uttarkhand : Dr D D Choudary

Dr. M. E. Sugathan presented ppt on NABHaccreditation in Kerala.

Dr. Mangesh Pate requested for allocation of agencyfor rest of Maharashtra to go ahead.

Mr. Menon informed that out of 74 hospitalsenrolled, 15 are advised to apply for accreditation.We should give representation to NABH to givepriority to IMA HBI hospital’s application.

Dr. Mangesh Pate wished that name of IMA shallcome on website of NABH.

Dr. Pankaj Mutneja suggested that Kerala NadMaharashtra model shall be propagated to otherStates.

Dr. C. L. Bhagat suggested that HBI shall associatewith CAHO. CAHO trains trainers, staff personnels,remove fear of NABH. CAHO is created by NABH andhave NABH logo also. It is not so that it is for corporatehospitals only.

Dr. Jayesh Lele informed members that we canappoint Dr. Satyajit Barua from Tezpur Assam as JointSecretary and Dr. Juneja from Chattisgarh as Director.

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Dr.A.Pillai stated that costing shall be regional.

Dr.C.L.Bhagat suggested that fomat shall bestandardised by Central Body and filled in byindividual States.

7) Resolutions and or amendments if anyDr. Jayesh Lele informed that since Dr. Mangesh Pateis now appointed as Finance Sec for IMA HBI, thepresent bank account can be operated by any fromMumbai .The resolution was read to that effect andpassed unanimously.

8) Vote of Thanks

Dr. Asokan stated that he was happy with the qualityof discussion. He gave special thanks to Pune branchfor hosting the meeting.

Dr. Arti Nimkar thanked office for giving opportunityto host.

Dr. Jayesh Lele thanked all for active participationand suggestions. He requested to send suggestionson e mail address of HBI.

Meeting ended with the permission of chair.

Minutes of the National Health InsuranceWorkshop

Venue : Hotel LalitTime: 10.300 am

New DelhiDate: 07.04.2017

National submit on Health insurance for stakeholders by conducted Hotel Lalit ,New Delhi between10.30am and 4 pm . National President Dr K KAggarwal presided over the meeting an followingsessions were conducted

1. Health Insurance in India and its Regulation-current status an overview.

2. Criteria for Empanelment of Hospitals .

3. Cost Economics Balance for Insurer andService provider .

4. Challenges faced by stake holders .

5. Steps towards Synergy between Hospitals,Insurers, TPA’S and Policy Holders.

6. Benefits of IMA HBI Representation in IRDA,Insurer, and TPAs Advisory.

7. Universal Health Insurance - MeaningfulPublic Private Partnership How

viable?

The following were participated:-

1. Dr K K Aggarwal,National President IMA

2. Dr. Ravi Wankhedkar,National PresidentElect

3. Dr R N Tandon,Hony Secretary General

4. Dr V K Monga,Hony Finance Secretary, IMA

5. Dr Vinay Aggarwal, Past National PresidentIMA

6. Dr. Marthanda Pillai A. Past NationalPresident IMA

7. Dr D R Rai ,Past HSG IMA

8. Dr Narendra Saini,Past HSG IMA

9. Dr. R.V. Asokan,Chairman IMAHBI

10. Dr Jayesh Lele, Secretary IMA HBI

11. Dr Mangesh Pate , Treasurer,IMA HBI

12. Dr M E Sugathan, Hony. Joint Secretary, HBI

13. Dr Pankaj Mutneja, Hony. Joint Secretary, HBI

14. Dr Satyajit Borah,Hony. Joint Secretary, HBI

15. Dr B Sridhar,Director IMA HBI, Tamilnadu

16. Dr Vinod C Shah,Director IMA HBI, Gujarat

17. Dr R S Bedi,Director IMA HBI, Chandigarh,

18. Dr D D Choudhary,Director IMAHBI,Uttaranchal,

19. Dr Prabhakara G N ,Director IMAHBI,Karnataka,

20. Dr Rajeev Aggarwal,Director IMAHBI,Maharashtra,

21. Dr Nitin Juneja,Director IMA HBI,Chhattisgarh

22. Dr A K Ravikumar,National Coordinator(Insurance)

23. Dr. Joseph Benaven, National Coordinator(CII)

24. Dr C M Bhagat, National Coordinator (CGHS)

25. Mr Gaurav Tripathi,AVP,Aditya Birla HealthInsurance Co

26. Dr. Geeta Bhardwaj,Chief Medical Office &Vice President,MD India Health Insurance TPA Pvt.Ltd.

27. Mr Manish Dodeja,Religare Insurance

28. Mr Nitin Monga,Regional Manager –North,Medicare Insurance TPA Services India

29. Mr Deepak Sahni,Branch OperationsHead,Medicare Insurance TPA Services India

30. Dr. Nayan Shah MD,PARAMOUNT HEALTHGROUP

31. Mr L Rangarajan,Chief Manager,United IndiaInsurance Co Ltd

32. Mr R Hariharan,Deputy GeneralManager,United India Insurance Co Ltd

33. Dr. S. Prakash,Senior Executive Director,StarHealth & Allied Insurance Company ltd

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34. Mr Jitender Dhingra,ASST MANAGER –HEALTH,UNIVERSAL SOMPO GENERAL INSURANCECO LTD

35. Mr V ikas Mathur,Head - HealthMarketing,UNIVERSAL SOMPO GENERALINSURANCE CO LTD

36. Mr Santosh Thakur,AGM - HEALTHOPERATIONUNIVERSAL SOMPO GENERALINSURANCE CO LTD

37. Dr.Abhitabh Gupta,CEO,Paramount HealthServices & Insurance (TPA) PVT Ltd

38. Dr. Suman Singh Ti lak,CMO,ParamountHealth Services & Insurance (TPA) PVT Ltd.

Decisions

1. As stakeholders in health care we resolve towork together for better relationship between allstaekeholder.IMA hereby floats a dialogue forumwhich will function as a National working Group .Thiswill function as a nodal body and also redressgrievances.

2. Empanelment procedures have to betransparent.

3. IMA HBI will facilitate ROHINI registration.

4. IMA HBI rededicates itself in providing NABHentry level accreditation

5. Standard Treatment Guidelines will beformulated and updated by IMA

6. Inflation index will be monitored by IMA HBI

7. Differential billing is unethical

8. Code of conduct for doctors vis a vis healthinsurance companies will be evolved.

9. IMA will facilitate categorization and gradingof hospitals

10. IMA will explore co designing and coauthoring an insurance product

11. IMA HBI will offer blinded peer reviewservices

12. The idea of empanelment of doctors inaddition to hospitals was mooted

13. IMA formally declared the need for a specialpackage product for doctors14. IMA HBI formally required the insurancecompanies and TPAs to include IMA HBI in theiradvisory panels

3RD INTERNAL ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING06.08.2017 , VENUE - IMA BUILDING, MUMBAIMINUTES OF THE MEETING

3rd Internal Administrative Meeting of IMA-HBi took

plece on 06.08.2017 at IMA Mumbai Building. Themeeting was attended byDr.K.K.Aggarwal National President IMADr.R.N.Tandon Hon. HSG IMADr.V.K.Monga Hon. Finance Secretary IMADr.R.V.Asokan National Chairman , IMA – HBIDr.JayeshLele Hon. National Secretary ,IMA – HBIDr.Mangesh Pate National Treasurer,IMA-HBIMeeting was called by Dr R V Asokan. He clarifiedthe purpose of meeting as to discuss & sort out fewadministrative & documentation issues.1 Application FormA] The direct affiliation application form wasdiscussed. Dr.Asokan pointed out ‘the need to addIMA Life Membership Number in this form’.Dr.Mangesh Pate said ‘the entry fee charges shouldbe more than average charges which are collectedevery 3 years’.2 State Chapter Affiliation Form

A] Dr Asokan said ‘the 4th line in the form“Name Of Owner(IMA Member)” should beremoved & should be replaced by a) Ownership -Proprieter/Lease/Rented/Locum & b)Establishment represented by ‘. He stated that ‘evenif owner is nonmedico, establishment can apply forHBI registration but through representation bymodern medicine doctor & also provided thatestablishment practices modern medicine.’

B] Dr.JayeshLele said that No. of QualifiedParamedical staff & No. of Non-qualifiedparamedical staff should be removed. Instead he saidto add ‘Total manpower in establishment &subdivide into Paramedical & Non-medical’.

C] Dr Mangesh Pate suggested revision ofcharges for HBI affiliation. He also mentioned needto simplify charges & to keep on parallel lines asIMA LM system by applying total charges & HFCsystem. Dr Asokan said to include this in BOD meeting

D] It was discussed if to keep attachedmembers fee Rs 1500/- or to remove. Dr Asokan saidto include it in BOD for discussion. Dr Mangesh Patesuggested to keep it if charges are in present format& to remove it if we adopt HFC system like IMA.

E] The account name to be removed fromstate affiliation form as it is going to be variedindifferent states.3 Clarity on rules & byelaws

A] Dr Mangesh Pate suggested that the word‘sponsored’ on page 2 / 1st line should be replacedby ‘represented’.

B] The issue of Clinics,Laborataries, Xrayclinics & ultrasound scan centres registration shouldbe discussed in BOD. It should be before CWC.

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4 Financial Status was taken into account byDr Asokan, Dr Lele& Dr Pate5 Mumbai bank account

It was pointed out by Dr Lele, Dr Pate & DrAsokan that there is urgent need for having a parallelaccount in Mumbai for functioning. It was agreed byHSG Dr Tandon& National Finance Secretary DrMonga.6 GST Number

It was demanded that GST number of IMAshould be given to the working agencies foraccreditation to fascilitate smooth functioning. Wasagrred by Dr Monga National Finance Secretary, IMA.7 MOU with Mr Ranjith for Maharashtra

It was discussed & decided to sign MOU withMr Ranjith Menon for 15 districts & second extensionMOU for rest of Maharashtra at the earliest.Meeting ended with Vote Of Thanks by DrJayeshLele, National Secretary IMA-HBI

Internal Administrative MeetingVenue : Hotel The Grand

Date :23.09.2017 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

Time : 8pm

ParticipantsDr R V Asokan, Chairman IMA HBIDr Jayesh Lele, Secretary IMA HBIDr Mangesh Pate, Treasurer IMA HBIDecisions1. Bernad’s proposal is rejected . To proceedwith the free software of Mr Renjith.2. To try Ms Nikitha Sabbarwal for North India3. To allot entire Maharashtra for Renjith.4. All the minutes of the year to be put up forCentral Council5. To try Renjith for Gujarat aswell

IMA Hospital Board of IndiaInternal Administration meetingVenue : IMA HBI Hqs

Time: 2 PM-4PMIMA building, MumbaiDate:16.10.2017

ParticipantsDr R V Asokan, Chairman IMA HBI1. Dr Jayesh Lele, Secretary IMA HBI2. Dr Mangesh Pate, Treasurer IMA HBI3. Dr M E Sugathan, Joint Secretary IMA HBI4. Dr Parthiv Sanghvi, State Secretary IMAMaharashtra5. Dr.Saurabh Sanjanwala , Secretary IMA HBIMaharashtra State Chapter

Decisions:1) To call a meeting of Council of states at 8 AMon Thursday 28.12.2017 at NATCON venue site.2) To maintain following registersa) Membershipb) Minutes of the Board of Directors meetingsc) Minutes of the Council of States meetingsd) Minutes of the internal administrativemeetings3) To abolish the provision for registration andamend affiliation to include clinics.4) Affiliation fee to be simplified:a) One time admission feeb) Subscription collected once in 3 years.c) Admission and subscription fee to beuniform throughout the country.d) Both admission fee and subscription to have2 tiers only ie, IMA HBI Hqs and IMA HBI statechapters.e) Admission fee to be divided 50:50 andsubscription to be divided 40:60 between IMA HBIhqs and IMA HBI state chapters respectively.5) Rules and Byelaws to be amended to abolishproportional representation and allow the Chairmanand Secretary of State chapters to become therepresentatives of the council of states . In theabsence of IMA HBI State Chapter, the State Presidentand State Secretary of the State branch will representthe state in the IMA HBI Council of States.6) The MOU with ISOS in Maharashtra to beexpedited.7) All pending payments including the stateshare of Maharashtra and Kerala to be expedited.8) The review noted that 2 senior consultantsand 12 field consultants have been deployed inMaharashtra and 2 field consultants in Kerala.9) A free web portal has started functioning inMaharashtra. ISOS shall make the same available foraffiliated hospitals in Kerala within 15 days.10) ISOS was mandated to begin operations inGujarat in principle.11) ISOS should suggest a tariff for additionalsupport to hospitals.12) IMA NABH Initiative in Kerala :Number of hospitals joined : 1 0 1HospitalsInitial assessment completed : 99HospitalsApplied Hospitals : 2 3HospitalsVisits Scheduled : 3HospitalsCertified :1 Hospital

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IMA NABH Initiative in Maharashtra:Number of Hospitals joined : 600HospitalsInitial assessment completed : 90%of Hospitals

13) The next Board of Directors meeting isprovisionally fixed on 26th November 2017 Sundayat IMA HQs, Delhi.

IMA Hospital Board of IndiaMinutes of the 15th Board of directors meeting

Venue : IMA HqsTime: 10 am-4 pmNew DelhiDate: 26.11.2017, Sunday

The following participated:-1. Dr K K Aggarwal, National President, IMA2. Dr Vinay Aggarwal, Past National PresidentIMA3. Dr A Marthanda Pillai, Past NationalPresident IMA4. Dr Raviwankhedkar, President elect, IMA5. Dr V K Monga Finance Secretary IMA6. Dr R V Asokan, Chairman IMA HBI7. Dr Jayesh Lele, Secretary IMA HBI8. Dr Mangesh Pate, Treasurer IMA HBI9. Dr Dinesh B Thakera,Joint Secretary IMA HBI10. Dr Pankaj Mutneja, Joint Secretary, HBI11. Dr M E Sugathan, Joint Secretary, HBI12. Dr Sridhar B, Director IMA HBI13. Dr Prabhakara G N , Director IMA HBI14. Dr Dipak Choudary, Director IMA HBI

15. Dr Ramneek Bedi, Director IMA HBI16. Dr Vinod B Shah, Director IMA HBI17. Dr Rajeev Agarwal, Director IMA HBI18. Dr A K Ravikumar, National CoordinatorInsurance19. Dr Joseph Benaven, National Coordinator, CII20. Dr K M Abul Hasan, Editor IMA HBI21. Dr A V Jayakrishnan, Chairman IMA HBI KeralaState Chapter22. DR V Varadharajan, Advisor, NHB IMA TNSB

Dr K K Aggarwal National President was in the chair .Dr Raviwankhedkar, National President elect, DrVinay Aggarwal, Dr A Marthanda pillai were alsopresent. Hony Secretary General Dr R N Tandon andFinance Secretary Dr V K Monga were also present.The following decisions were taken:1. To retain the services of Dr K K Kalra to headthe IMA NABH initiative for northern states. He willbe required to form a team of consultants directlyunder him and take charge of IMA NABH Initiative inDelhi, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttarkhand andUttar Pradesh immediately.2. The developments in the costing projectswere taken in the account and budget wassanctioned. The following amendments submittedto IMA were reiterated.OFFICE BEARERSOffice Bearers of the Association :30. The following office bearers shall be elected forproper management of the activities of theAssociation for a term of Two years only:

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Existing Proposed Amendment

(k) Hony. Secretary General

(l) Hony. Joint Secretaries stationed at Delhi

(m)Hony.Jt Secretary stationed at Kolkata

(to look after IMA Bldg at Kolkata)

(n) Hony. Asst Secretaries

-Two at IMA Hqs, stationed at Delhi

-One stationed at Kolkata as Hony Ass

Secretary, JIMA

(o) Hony. Finance Secretary –stationed at

Delhi

(p) Hony. Joint Finance Secretaries

(one each at IMA hqs ,Delhi & Kolkata)

JIMA (Kolkata)

(q)Associate Editors

(r)Hony. Secretary of Journal

Your Health (Kolkata)

(s)Editor ,Your Health

(t)Hony. Secretary, Your Health

Apka Swasthya (Varanasi)

(u)Editor .Apka Swasthya

(v)Hon Secretary Apka Swasthya

IMA CGP (Chennai)

(w)Hon Secretary IMA CGP

(x)Hony Joint Secretaries, IMA CGP

IMA AMS(Hyderabad)

(y)Vice Chairman IMA AMS

(z)Hon Secretary IMA AMS

(aa)Hony Joint Secretaries IMA CGP

IMA Dr AKN Sinha Institute (Patna)

(ab)Hony Executive Secretary

(ac)Hony. Joint Secretaries

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Three

One

Three

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Two

Two

One

One

One

One

One

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(k) Hony. Secretary General

(l) Hony. Joint Secretaries stationed at

Delhi

(m)Hony.Jt Secretary stationed at Kolkata

(to look after IMA Bldg at Kolkata)

(n) Hony. Asst Secretaries

-Two at IMA Hqs, stationed at Delhi

-One stationed at Kolkata as Hony Ass

Secretary, JIMA

(o) Hony. Finance Secretary –stationed at

Delhi

(p) Hony. Joint Finance Secretaries

(one each at IMA hqs ,Delhi & Kolkata)

JIMA (Kolkata)

(q)Associate Editors

(r)Hony. Secretary of Journal

Your Health (Kolkata)

(s)Editor ,Your Health

(t)Hony. Secretary, Your Health

Apka Swasthya (Varanasi)

(u)Editor .Apka Swasthya

(v)Hon Secretary Apka Swasthya

IMA CGP (Chennai)

(w)Hon Secretary IMA CGP

(x)Hony Joint Secretaries, IMA CGP

IMA AMS(Hyderabad)

(y)Vice Chairman IMA AMS

(z)Hon Secretary IMA AMS

(aa)Hony Joint Secretaries IMA CGP

IMA Dr AKN Sinha Institute (Patna)

(ab)Hony Executive Secretary

(ac)Hony. Joint Secretaries


(ad)Chairman IMA HBI

(ae) Secretary IMA HBI

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Include34 – B IMA Hospital Board of IndiaThe Association shall have an IMA Hospital Board of India for member of the Association which shall begoverned as per Rules and Byelaws approved by the Central Council(27-29 December 2011

Composition of Working Committee:26.The Working Committee shall be composed the following:

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(A Ex Officio Members) (A Ex Officio Members) i. The National President The National President

ii. The Immediate Past National President

The Immediate Past National President

iii. The National President -Elect (Two) The National President -Elect (Two) iv. The Vice Presidents The Vice Presidents v. The Honorary Secretary General The Honorary Secretary General

vi. The Honorary Joint Secretaries The Honorary Joint Secretaries vii. The Honorary Finance Secretary The Honorary Finance Secretary

viii. The Editor of the Journal or in case he is unable to attend, one of the Associate Editors deputed by him

The Editor of the Journal or in case he is unable to attend, one of the Associate Editors deputed by him

ix. Dean, IMA College of General Practitioners

Dean, IMA College of General Practitioners

x. The Honorary Secretary of the Journal The Honorary Secretary of the Journal

xi. Honorary Secretary, IMA College of General Practitioners

Honorary Secretary, IMA College of General Practitioners

xii. Chairman, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities

Chairman, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities

xiii. Honorary Secretary, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities

Honorary Secretary, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities

xiv. Chairman Standing Committee for Finance

Chairman Standing Committee for Finance

xv. Hony. Director ,IMA AKN Sinha Institute

Hony. Director ,IMA AKN Sinha Institute

xvi. Hony . Executive Secretary, IMA AKN Sinha Institute

Hony . Executive Secretary, IMA AKN Sinha Institute

xvii. Chairman IMA NSSS Chairman IMA NSSS xviii. Hony. Secretary IMA NSSS Hony. Secretary IMA NSSS

Add: Chairman IMA Hospital Board of

India Hony. Secretary IMA Hospital

Board of India.

Existing up to 34 (a)

Add as 34 -B

The association shall have an IMA HBI which shall

be governed as per Rules and Byelaws approved

by Central Council.

Existing

30. Office Bearers of Association

Add: 30 (Office Bearers of Association)


(ad) Chairman one

(ae) Hony. National Secretary one

(af)Hony. Joint Secretaries four

(ag) Hony. Treasurer one

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Status of IMA NABH Initiative in KeralaSL.No Activities Number of Hospitals

1 Enrolled Hospitals 102

4 Initial Assessment Completed 102 5 Training Completed 100

6 Finalized Manuals 61

7 Applied Hospitals 22 8 Final Assessment Completed Hospitals 4 9 Accredited Hospital 1

Status of IMA NABH Initiative in Maharashtra

SL.No Activities Number of Hospitals 1 Enrolled Hospitals 600

4 Initial Assessment Completed 400 5 Training Completed 400

6 Finalized Manuals 4

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REPORT OF ACADEMIC COUNCIL

The academic council has met twice and followingdecisionsTo form an accreditation councilTo streamline various courses conducted by variouswingsTo avoid overlapping of coursesHave uniform fee structureTry for recognition/affiliation with lndian universityDecided to appoint national professorsThe criteria for national professors were fixed andas per the new criteria national professors were ap

pointedCGP and AMS have been very active in organisingnational and state conferencesNew short term courses were plannedBLS training program for GPS were plannedUltimately IMA should have a medical university

Dr A Marthanda PillaiChairman Wings

Agenda Item No. B-33Report of activities being done by Accreditation and Academic Council

1. Honorary IMA Professors and Faculty positonsConcept note and application form for nomination is placed on IMA website.Good response is received. In first exercise, list of recommended professors (195) and faculty (11) is alsouploaded.2. Draft policy in respect of Industrial association and CMEs accreditation is also prepared.3. Work in progress in r/o Clinic standards development4. To create awareness and training support regarding patient safety and Quality care throughvarious state IMA branches is planned.

Honorary IMA Professor Honorary IMA Professors are leaders within the academic and clinical community. They have a National /International reputation in their academic field and demonstrate leadership both within the IMA andexternally. These positions are awarded on the grounds of outstanding achievements and national standing inresearch and innovation or in teaching and learning.Initial Validity Period: 3 YearsObjectives:

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1. To create IMA credible Faculty2. To enhance academic activities of IMA3. To use their services in IMA conferences /workshops/seminars for teaching & skill buildingof healthcare professional4. To conduct research at IMA level in field ofmedicine5. To frame standards Treatment Guidelines andregular revision of the same in field of theirspecialization.6. Clinical Data management at national /statelevelProcedure:Applications for IMA Honorary Professor /Facultyshall be received by way of nominations only. Anybonafide life member of IMA can nominate oneapplicant. Application duly filled by candidate and signed bythe recommending member is to reach to theoffice of CEO –IMA Accreditation & AcademicCouncil by 31st July every year.All applications received shall be screened by acommittee. Screening of the applications shall bedone as per criterion laid down.Recommendations of the committee shall bepresented in the Accreditation Committee forapproval. Eligibility criterion:

· Registered MBBS doctor with minimum 20years’ experience· Registered MD/MS or DNB doctor withminimum 15 years post PG experience· Number of Publications minimum 2 in anyindexed scientific medical journalNote: MCI / University recognized medicalTeachers also need to apply for award of thesedesignations. Eligibility criterion alone cannot be a claim for

grant of Honorary Professorship. Along with these criterion, other information asasked in application form shall be considered forselection of suitable candidates as per decision ofthe committee.Members of the committee 1.National President 2.Hon Sec General 3.Immediate Past president 4.President Elect 5.Two expert nominee 6.Member Secretary CEO IMA Accreditation &Academic CouncilOnce selected, IMA professor /faculty can use thisdesignation on their letter heads, visiting cards.They shall be given preference by state and localbranches as Faculty for conducting CMEs.Expectations from Honorary IMA Professors andFaculty are:1. Honorary IMA Professors will be brandambassador of IMA and a role model to the society2. Honorary IMA Professors shall propagateIMA activities3. Honorary IMA Professors shouldparticipate in all National IMA programs alignedwith National Health Programs4. Honorary IMA Professors shall follow IMAethics policy5. Honorary IMA Professors should conduct/participate IMA CMEs6. Honorary IMA Professors should befacilitating formulation of national healthguidelines 7. Honorary IMA Professors should promoteresearch in private sector 8. Honorary IMA Professors should contributein IMA publications Let’s work together for transforming healthcare inIndia

Agenda Item No. B-34Report of Activities of IMA National Health Scheme

Report of activities with Byelaw amendments of IMANHS and Audited accounts till November 2016 waspresented before the 77th Central Council Meetingheld on 2728th December 2016 at Amritsar Punjabin Hotel Radisson Blu. The report and accounts including Byelaw amendments was given in the agendapapers of 77th Central Council as item no.B24 pages58 to60 and was passed in the 77th Central Council.

3rd Managing committee meeting of National HealthScheme was conducted in the venue of 77th NationalConference on 27th December 2016 at Hotel RadissonBlu Amritsar Punjab, in the Board Room along with

Finance Committee meeting at 10 AM Prior to the77th Central council Meeting of IMA. There were 28participants including invitees in the IIIrd managingcommittee. National President chaired the meetingsaid it is very useful scheme to member and startedwith a long vision to help the members and family atthe time of hospitalisation. He urged office bearersto do everything for mobilisation of membership.All office bearers should be member of all IMASchemes .With these words N.P called Chairman Dr.Asok Adhao NHS to take over the proceedings. Chairman in his remarks the benefit of NHS and also

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pointed out that membership is the backbone of allschemes and so concentrate on enrolling more members thereby we can declare more benefits. Hon.Secretary General also opined that all office bearersshould join all schemes of IMA. All the states shouldhave state coordinators for propagating the scheme.He asked the secretary to prepare Brochure showingsalient features of the scheme to present before thePresident Secretaries meet on 6th and 7th January2017 at H.Q. He offered all help from Head Quarters.Marthanda Pillai IPP told that He started the schemeto help the members at the time of hospitalisationfinancially. Then chairman called the secretary topresent reports and accounts.

In the discussion it was agreed by all to propose theByelaw Amendments and present before the 77thCentral Council meeting to be held on 27th & 28thDecember 2016 at Amritsar, Punjab. Secretary explained about his effort to increase membership byvisiting important meetings of state and National.All members agreed to the Byelaw amendments andthe suggestion of incentives of Rs.50/ per memberto be given to local branches or state branch so thatbranches will take more interests in enrolment. Secretary said that the Report with Byelaw Amendmentsand audited accounts included in the Agenda papersfrom Page No. 58 to 60, as item no B24 to presentbefore the 77th CC meeting to be held on 27th &28th December 2016 at hotel Radisson Blu, Amritsar.Finance secretary R.N Tandon said that all the accounts should be presented before the Finance committee as suggested by HSG. Secretary expressedvote of thanks at the end of the meeting.

As a Part of Membership drive Secretary visited different branches Dhule, Bombay and Nagpur, Pune,Uttaranchal and Bangalore. Gujarat especiallyVadodara branch is helping the scheme in membership drive with the help of Dr.Chetan Patel. Maximum registration is from Dhule and Akola branch ofMaharashtra and Kerala.

Hon. Secretary NHS attended President Secretariesand Leaders Meet on 6 &7th January 2017 which wascalled by our Beloved National presidentDr.K.K.Agarwal. There was discussion on DifferentProfessional issues on 6th January 2017 at 2 pm. TheMain issue was Exit exam for MBBS doctors to practice. There was opinion on Exit exam in favour andagainst but unanimously opined that we should bein the front to lead Medical students agitation on 1stFebruary 2017. Prelude to agitation it was decided toconvene a student's convention on 22nd January atNew Delhi.

Secretary attended the Meeting of International AirPollution on organised by IMA and CMAAO 10/3/2017

.Secretary attended and took part in the discussion.NHS scheme form was distributed among the members attended and also the new brochure which explain about the benefit of NHS.

On 11th March 2017, there was an Emergency ActionCommittee meeting at 2 pm in IMA H.Q to discussabout the CEA West Bengal bill .There was a heateddiscussion on CEA west Bengal Act. Representativesfrom W.B IMA attended and they were of the opinion new bill is better. After Telephonic conversationwith State Secretary W.Bengal and agreed to represent jointly with National IMA about grey areas anddetrimental clauses. Secretary attended the safesound convention at Hotel Le meridian. Most of thebranches attended the meeting.

The Report of Activities and Accounts of IMA NationalHealth Scheme till 31st March 2017 was presentedbefore the 217th CWC Meeting held on 15th and 16thApril 2017 at Hotel Oberoi Grand, Kolkatta. The meeting was chaired by IMA National PresidentDr.K.K.Agarwal. Report of activities of IMA was presented and all the wings of IMA report including IMANational Health Scheme. Report is included in theagenda papers of 217th CWC and is given as theAgenda item no. B 25 pages 56 to58. The audited report and accounts passed in the 217th working committee.

Secretary attended The Dilli Chalo March started as aprocession after a prayer from Rajghat at 8 am on 6/06/2017. Kerala even though southernmost State attended total 350 members including 130 students.Dilli Chalo has proven our strength as IMA1Voice.Now it is the time to strengthen the IMA1Voicemovement to fight for our legitimate demands.

The Secretary National Health Scheme was invitedas the Guest of honour to attend the Doctors Daycelebration of Karnataka State on July`1st 2017 atDr.Basavarajendra Auditorium, Bangalore at 11 am.DGP Sri Rupak Kumar Dutta IPS was the chief Guestand Inaugurated the Doctors Day celebration. StatePresident Dr. Rajashekhar.S.Bellary was chairing thesession. Dr.Alex Franklin, Secretary IMA NationalHealth Scheme inaugurated the "IMA Karnataka StateHealth Scheme" (IMA KHS"), Dr.S.Sachidananda Director of Medical Education, Govt Karnataka was theGuest of Honour. Dr.Chiniwalar is the new Chairmanof Karnataka Health Scheme and promised to worktogether with National Health Scheme.

NHS Secretary attended the IMA AMS National Conference held at Kozhikode Hotel Taj on 19th and 20thAugust 2017. National President K.K.Aggarwal inaugurated the conference on 20th August 2017. Hon.Secretary General Dr. R.N.Tandon, Finance SecretaryDr. V.K Monga and Past National President Dr.

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A.Marthanda Pillai were present in the inauguralfunction.

Secretary attended IMA State Leadership Reviewmeet on 27th August 2017 held at IMA Head QuartersNew Delhi. The main focus of discussion was what isafter Delhi Chalo which was a grand Success. In thediscussion all states took part actively and opinedthat action should continue till our minimum demands are accepted by the Govt. All our demandswhich are in various stages of implementation shouldbe expedited. It was decided that IMA will go forFasting on October 2nd all over India in 685 Districtsto press our demand.

The IVth Managing committee meeting of IMA National Health Scheme was held on 24th September2017 at Hotel the Grand, Nelson Mandela Road, VasantKunj New Delhi along with the 218th CWC meetingon 23rd and 24th September 2017. 28 members including invitees were present in the IVth ManagingCommittee. National President K.K Agarwal in hispresidential address said NHS is very useful schemeto member and started with long vision to help themembers and family at the time of hospitalisation.He urged office bearers to do everything formobilisation of membership. All office bearersshould be member of all IMA Schemes .With thesewords N.P called Chairman Dr. Asok Adhao NHS totake over the proceedings. Chairman in his remarksexplained about the benefit of NHS and also pointedout that membership is the backbone of all schemesand so concentrate on enrolling more membersthereby we can declare more benefits. Hon. Secretary General also opined that all office bearers shouldjoin and promote all schemes of IMA. All the statesshould have state coordinators for propagating thescheme. He offered all help from Head Quarters.Marthanda Pillai Past President told that He startedthe scheme to help the members at the time ofhospitalisation financially. Then chairman called thesecretary to present reports and accounts.

Secretary read out the minutes of the 3rd Managingcommittee and was passed proposed by Dr.VijayaMali State coordinator Maharashtra and seconded byDr. Chiniwalar state coordinator Karnataka. Secretarypresented the Audited Accounts from April 2017 toAugust 2017.Then Secretary informed the Managingcommittee that it is high time to appoint a clerk tohelp secretary to maintain records & accounts andalso to seek an office when it is needed. Since 2015,secretary is maintaining the records single handedand accounts periodically Audited. Committee members agreed to the request of appointing clerks andrequest to set up office.

Then all the members participated in the discussionand all are of the opinion that it should be promotedto reach in all states and to increase membership.Chairman in his final remarks all efforts should bedone to increase the present 413 membership to atleast 1000 and appreciated the secretary's work. National president concluded the meeting after voteof Thanks by secretary.

Secretary presented the Report of Activities of NHSfor 218th CWC held on 23rd and 24th Sept 2017 atHotel the Grand, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj,New Delhi,

So far NHS Reimbursed Treatment cost in the year2016 was Rs.75000/ (Seventy five Thousand) chequeno. 620822 dated 19/12/2016 paid to a single case ofCABD for putting one stent in the blocked vessel. In2017 there were two claims as treatment Reimbursement one for Kidney Transplantation 2lakhs ChequeNo. 620835 2/07/2017 and another for Cataract surgery one side Rupees 20,000/ cheque No. 620836dated 8/07/2017. Membership is improving with thehelp of State coordinators. I have put special word toDr.Sasidharan Pillai Kerala and Dr.Chetan Patel fromGujarat for their effort for enrolment. Now the membership has grown to 430. Hope it will grow with thehelp of all. To avoid expenses Secretary is doing allwork alone without employing any staff so far. Nowtime has come Scheme need an office with furniture, computer and staff to do the work of schemesince the membership is growing.

I remember with gratitude Dr.Ravi WankedkarPresident elect and Madam Ravi for their earnesteffort in membership drive. Dr. Chetan Patel statepresident of Gujarat is showing keen interest andgave many innovative suggestions. I am indebted toOur National President Dr. K.K .Agarwal and Hon.Secretary General Dr.R.N. Tandon, Past President Dr.A. Marthanda Pillai is the brain behind this noblescheme and I am indebted to him for his supportand for his long reaching vision to start the newscheme. The website for N.H.S is launched in theend of July 2015 as www.nimahs.com. If you openthe website you can download the application formand will get all details including Byelaw of thescheme.

I have to thank our beloved National PresidentDr.K.K.Aggarwal for his full support andencouragement for the membership developmentof NHS. Our HSG Dr. R.N.Tandon is very much helpfulto the Scheme so also the Finance secretary Dr.V.k.Monga. My Special thanks to Dr. A. MarthandaPillai who envisaged the scheme, for his support andguidance. I profusely thank my Chairman. Dr. AsokAdhao, Vice chairman Dr.Jayaramdas, Joint Secretary

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Dr.Pawan Gupta, past Vigilance Officer Dr. R.N.Tandonand scheme finance officer Dr. Sunoj for their supportto perform my duties. State Coordinators Dr.Sasidharan Pillai of Kerala, Dr. Chetan Patel fromGujarat, Dr.Vijaya Mali from Maharashtra and Dr.C.N.Raja from Tamil Nadu, Dr. D. D.Chaudhury fromJharkhand, Dr. Gattu Srinivasulu from Hyderabad all

who helped me a lot for enrolling members andremembering them with gratitude.

Jai IMA

Dr. Alex Franklin

Hon. Secretary National H.Scheme


1.) Minutes of the Meeting General Council ofIMA Junior Doctors Network was held on 27.08.2017– 10AM:

Convened by Dr KM Abul Hasan, NationalCoordinator of JDN and attended by Dr. ManishChairman JDN and other members.

The following resolution passed.

1.) CRRI stipend to be enhanced to Rs.30,000/uniformly throughout the country

2.) All CRRI’s should be given vaccination freely bythe Government.

3.) IMA JDN members will join IMA Fast for NONEXT & against NMC on 2nd October

4.) JDN members can pay the IMA membership feein five installments.

5.) IMA JDN National Convention will be held onthe sides of NATCON 2017 at Mumbai on 26th

December.

6.) Safety of Resident Doctors should be ensuredby the Hospital Authorities.

7.) IMA JDN requested that IMA HQ office bearersshould be permitted to participate in CWCmeeting & logistics also to be provided.

2.) All India Convention of JDN II Edition 2017

We are organising an All India Convention of JDNMumbai on 26th December 2017 which would be alandmark event bringing all Young Doctors under IMAfold.

The Following will be the highlights of theConvention:

i.) To act as a platform for all major ResidentDoctors Associations of India and to reach a commonconsensus among the young leadership & present areport to the Ministry of Health, GOI / PMO / MCI

ii.) Interaction with faculties from NBE / MCI andorganisations like API & ASI

iii.) Medico – Legal Conclave

iv.) Dedicated Sessions on Health Care Start ups

v.) One of the sessions will be SARRCConvention of Young Doctors.

Activities Report of Young Doctors Wing IMA HQ

vi.) Participation of Many Entrance ExamCoaching Centers.

vii.) Exhibition on Job Opportunities for YoungDoctors in India & Abroad.

3.) IMA PG SATHI – IMA’S Service to YoungDoctors of our Country:

This mobile app developed for PG Entrance ExamCoaching is getting wide popularity & usage amongyoung doctors. We have been uploading new set ofquestions every month. This is a free app and hasbeen publicised in all social media. We can downloadthis app from our websitewww.imayoungdoctorswing.com. MCQ Exams areavailable in the following disciplines.

Disciplines:

Biochemistry Anatomy General Surgery Gynaecology Anaesthesia ENT Orthopeadics Psychiatric Psychology Medicine

Paediatrics Forensic medicine & Technology Ophthalmology Radiology Pathology Pharmacology Preventive & Social Medicine Obstetrics

Skin

We are also planning to launch IMA Quiz App – whichwould be again very educative & interesting.

Dr. K.M. Abul Hasan

National Co.ordinator, Young Doctors Wing IMA HQ

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REPORTS OF ELECTION TRIBUNALS FORMED AT IMA HQs. TO LOOK INTO DISCREPANCIES DURING THECONDUCTION OF ELECTIONS OF DELHI MEDICAL ASSOCIATION & ELECTIONS TO SOME POSTS OF STATE

BRANCHES OF MADHYA PRADESH AND JHARKHAND AND DHANBAD BRANCH, JHARKHAND


REPORT OF PARA MEDICALCOURSES

ADMISSION 2017

Session Enrolled

July DMLT XRAY OT DMRT CARDIAC DIALYSIS

66 15 15 12 04 06

Detail of inspection of Institutes/Hospitals

Name of hospitals inspection done

No & Name of approved hospitals

Name of hospitals to be inspected

Seven (8) 1. Jaipur Golden Hospital, Rohini,

Delhi

2. Doctors Pathology Laboratory, Fatehgarh, Farrukhabad, U.P

3. ASTRON Institute of Social

Sciences, Gurgaon, Haryana

4. DISHA Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi

5. Shantimukund Hospital, Delhi

6. National MRI, CT Scan &

Diagnostic centre, Delhi

7. TECH Mahindra, Gandhi Ashram, GTB Nagar, Delhi

8. Disha Institute of Professional

Studies, Haldwani, Uttarakhand

Six (7) 1. Jaipur Golden Hospital, Rohini,

Delhi 2. Doctors Pathology Laboratory,

Fatehgarh, Farrukhabad, U.P 3. ASTRON Institute of Social

Sciences, Gurgaon, Haryana 4. DISHA Institute of Professional

Studies, Delhi

5. Shantimukund Hospital, Delhi

6. National MRI, CT Scan & Diagnostic centre, Delhi

7. TECH Mahindra, Gandhi

Ashram, GTB Nagar, Delhi

Nine (8) 1. MAX Super Specialty Hospital,

Patparganj, Delhi 2. LOKENATH INSTITUTE of

Medical Sciences, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

3. All India Institute of

Paramedical Sciences, Ballia, U. P.

4. Vishvakalyan Society, IDAR,

Gujarat 5. SIDDHARTH Institute of Para

Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar

6. VIROHAN Institute of Allied Health & Management Sciences, Faridabad

7. JHA Hospital, Hathras, U.P

8. Congnitio, The Knowledge Hub, Korea, C.G.

PARAMEDICAL FINAL EXAMINATION – JULY 2017

Total Two Hundred Sixty Two candidates appeared in different streams of Para Medical Final Examination – July 2017 throughout India. The results are as follows:

DMLT (Medical

Laboratory)

DXIT (X-Ray & Imaging)

DOTT (Operation

Theatre)

DMRT (Medical Record)

DCT (Cardiac)

DDT (Dialysis)

Appeared 143students

Appeared 25students

Appeared 51students

Appeared 16 students

Appeared 7students

Appeared 20 students

PASS FAIL PASS FAIL PASS FAIL PASS FAIL PASS FAIL PASS FAIL

114 26 7 18 29 21 10 5 1 6 12 8

Coming Paramedical Examination will be held in November 2017 and ninety seven students in different streams will appear for this examination.

Dr K K Aggarwal Dr R N Tandon Dr D R Rai Dr N V Kamat National President, IMA Honorary Secretary General, IMA Dean, Paramedical courses, IMA Chief Coordinator, Paramedical Courses, IMA

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NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS:

IMA National President: Dr. K K AgarwalHony Secretary Dr. R N TandonChairperson Dr. K A SeethiVice Chair Dr. Ajaykumar LekhiCoordinator Dr. C. John PanickerConvenor Dr. C N Raja

This project started in the year 2014 as an IMANational project, has already received a lotof National attention. This is the only Noiseawareness program, coordinating all the NGOsworking in this field at the National level. Now, notonly the activists, but the general public too arelooking upto IMA to get the issue of Noise pollution


INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONACTIVITY REPORT (2016-17) OF IMA-NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR SAFE SOUND

addressed.The office bearers are grateful to our belovedPresident Dr. K K Agarwal and Hony Secretary Dr. R NTandon, for entrusting this important project to thepresent Office bearers. We acknowledge theguidance and involvement of the National leadersof IMA.

As per the direction of the NP we have identifiedNISS coordinators in all the states. We could not yetnominate the coordinator in Goa which hopefullywill be identified in this IMA year itself.

NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS AND STATECOORDINATORS

CHAIRMAN, IMA, NISS Dr. K A Seethi, KERALA

NATIONAL COORDINATOR Dr. John Panicker, KERALA

CONVENOR Dr. C N Raja, TAMILNADU

VICE CHAIRMEN

NORTHZONE

VICE CHAIR HEAD QUARTERS Dr. Ajay Kumar Lekhi, DELHI

WEST ZONE

VICE CHAIR Dr. Prasanth Nikhade, NAGPUR

SOUTH ZONE

VICE CHAIR Dr. Dwarakanath Reddy, HYDERABAD

EAST ZONE

VICE CHAIR Dr. Anirban Biswas, KOLKATA

NORTH ZONE Dr. Saurabh Varshney, Head of ENT, AIIMS,

RISHIKESH

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STATE OFFICE BEARERS

ORISSA Dr. Saroj Kumar Sahu (CHAIR)

UTTARAKHAND Dr. Saurabh Varshney, Head of ENT, AIIMS, RISHIKESH

(CHAIR)

TELENGANA Dr. Ramanachary (CHAIR)

Dr. M Sampath Rao, Hyderabad (COORDINATOR)

TAMILNADU Dr. Gnanathilakan (CHAIR)

KARNATAKA Dr. Srinivas (CHAIR)

Dr. Dhanapal (CONVENOR)

Dr. Jothiswaroop (COORDINATOR)

PONDICHERRY Dr. ManikandaJothi (CHAIR)

GUJARAT Dr. Jitendra N Patel (CHAIR)

KERALA Dr. Pradeep Kumar VD (CHAIR)

Dr. P. Gopikumar (COORDINATOR)

HARYANA Dr. Adarsh Saxena (CHAIR)

PUNJAB & CHANDIGARH Dr. Raman Abrol (CHAIR)

Dr. Sarika Verma (CONVENOR)

Dr. Rohit Kumar Singhal (COCHAIR)

Dr. Mohnish Manjal (COORDINATOR)

MADHYA PRADESH Dr. Amit Ganguli (CHAIR)

HIMACHAL PRADESH Dr. Jagadeep Thakur (CHAIR)

JAMMU KASHMIR Dr. Latheef Chesti (CHAIR)

RAJASTHAN Dr. Manish Grover (CHAIR)

ARUNACHAL PRADESH Dr. Jego Ori (CHAIR)

BIHAR Dr. Mithilesh Kumar (CHAIR)

Dr. Satyendra Sharma (COORDINATOR)

JHARKAND Dr. Major Chandan (CHAIR)

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SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE NOISE AND HEALTH- DELHIThe second National conference on NOISE andHEALTH was organized on 12TH March 2017 at NewDelhi. The Delhi meeting was attended by all theNational State Co ordinators and National Officebearers and delegates from other NGO’s like AwaazFoundations and members of the Delhi IMA. Theconference was organized at Le Meridian New Delhiand presided by National president Dr.K.K.Agarwal.The conference was inaugurated by former SupremeCourt Justice Shri Anil R Dave. Around 150 delegatesparticipated in the conference. Past NationalPresident Dr. Marthanda Pillai, Dr. V C VelayudhanPillai, HSG Dr. R N Tandon, Finance secretary Dr. V KMonge, and very senior IMA leaders including Dr. DR Rai, Dr. Alex Franklin participated.There was extensive discussion on various strategiesto be implemented in different states. The Statesrepresentatives were asked to coordinate the IMAan AOI at the local level. Activities already carriedout in States like Kerala, Tamilnad and Maharashtrawere explained. Dr. C N Raja National convenor hasbeen entrusted to develop a website for IMA NISS.

The presentations on different aspects of noisepollution was done by Dr. Marthanda Pillai, Dr. R NTandon, Dr.John Panicker, Dr.Sumeira Abdulali,Dr.Yeswanth Oke, Dr.Ajay Kumar Lekhi, Dr.C.N.Raja,Dr.Anil Safaya and Dr.Santhosh S Kaker.

The discussions were moderated by Dr.Anil Safaya.There was excellent inputs from different states andthe conference decided to observe April 26th the lastwednesday as the NO HORN DAY at the NationalLevel.

NO HORN DAY CELEBRATIONSThe Delhi conference and the leaders meet decidedto observe the last week of April 2017 as No Hornweek all over the country, the International NoisePollution awareness day being the last Wednesdayof April every year.Observation of the Noise Awareness week wasorganized at different parts of the country led byrespective State coordinators and National Officebearers.

ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS –KASHMIRA meeting was conveyed early May with the SSPtraffic of Srinagar city and was appraised about noisepollution in the city. She gave a patient hearingabout the issue. PIL was filled in the high court ofjand kmr.in which the authorities were directed to

revoke the silence zones. Use of pressure horns tobe banned. The press clippings were alreadydisplaced on whattsup. Coming months we areplanning a meeting of IMA members Ent specialistsand traffic police officials to curb the menace ofnoise pollution. Being a disturbed state this issue isnot given any priority. Still we are trying our best toproject the menace of noise pollution.ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS –HIMACHAL PRADESHHimachal state observed No Horn day with lecturesand interactions. Two radio talks were aired on AIRin “Hello Doctor” program from Shimla andDharamshala stations. ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS –NEW DELHIDelhi is the National capital of pollution, both Noiseand Air. Although People are very much aware aboutair pollution, the same can not be said about noisepollution. IMA took cognizance of this issue andlaunched National Initiative of Safe Sound a whileback and resolved to spread awareness andpropagate the harmful effects of Noise with thisinitiative of safe sound.IMA :NISS organized 2nd national workshop on 12th

March 2017 at Hotel Le Meridian, New Delhi and wasattended by more than 200 delegates from northIndia. The highlight of the workshop was the factthat the chief guest Hon’ble Judge of Supreme courtrespected Shri Anil R. Dave was very much vocal onthis issue and even advocated that certain stringentnorms need to be placed and implemented. He alsosaid that he had come across many such incidencesrelated to noise pollution which had happened inhis tenures as high court judge and supreme courtJudge.This workshop was very instrumental and was thetrigger point for the Authorities in Delhi NCR,specially the Hon’ble Supreme Court to ban the saleof crackers on the eve of this Diwali in October 2017,which was very much beneficial for the public atlarge. Noise pollution in north India is at a peak withrampant use of mobile phones and with the use ofEar Phones/Head Phones and high wattage speakers.A short film on noise pollution titled “SHOR” inrelation to the various aspects of noise pollutionhighlighting the prevention of both the source aswell as resulting complication to humans wasprepared with the efforts of Dr. Ajay Lekhi and Dr.John C. Panicker in association with various leadBranches of IMA. DMA specially IMA East DelhiBranch has contributed and extended its fullestcooperation in making National Safe Sound Initiativea great success. Special thanks to Mr. Sanjeev Soodwho directed and produced this well acclaimed andappreciated short fi lm. Special thanks to Dr.Marthanda A. Pillai, Past National President of IMA

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and Dr. John Panicker for their guidance andcontribution while conceptualizing and initiatingNISS workshop. This workshop was chaired by IMANational President Dr. K.K. Aggarwal and Hony.Secretary General Dr. R.N. Tandon.For No honking, Industrial noise and other suchsources of noise. A special drive was taken up on alarge scale this year and these issues were taken upat the schools, colleges, and the community byorganizing various programs like “AAO SCHOOLCHALIEN”, Senior Citizen Legal and Health Camps andother such activities at the community level by Northzone committee of NISS, Delhi.Now north zone unit of NISS is planning to organizeanother workshop under chairman ship of Dr. AjayLekhi next year that is in 2018 with the Idea ofcreating awareness amongst the public regarding theharmful effects of Noise Pollution andimplementation of Laws aimed at limiting NoisePollution.Hoping for a grand success to the upcoming workshopby North Zone committee of NISS.

ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS –NAGPURIMA Nagpur, Association of Otolaryngologists ofIndia, Vidarbha Branch, National Initiative for SafeSound (NISS) and Traffic Police Department, Nagpur, organized public forum, “No Horn Day” on 26th April2017 on the occasion of International NoiseAwareness Day. Rashtra Sant Tukadoji CancerHospital, Nagpur, Rotary ID 3030 and NGO,“Janaakrosh” also joined this activity. This activitywas conducted to bring the awareness amongst thegeneral population about the illeffects of noise onhuman health.On this occasion, Stickers and Banners of “No HornDay” were released by the hands of Dr. JayakumarMenon, Phonosurgeon of International repute, Dr.Wakode, Joint Director of Directorate of MedicalEducation and Research Maharashtra on 22nd April2017 during Panel discussion organized by AOIV idarbha. Mrs. Amruta Fadnawis, wife of ChiefMinister, Maharashtra, Mr. Devendra Fadnawis alsoreleased, these Stickers and Banners at IMA Hall,Nagpur on 23rd April 2017 during InstallationCeremony of New IMA, Nagpur Body. These stickerswere then distributed amongst the Doctors, Policestaff and banners were posted at main squares ofNagpur City to bring public awareness on illeffectsof Honking.On 26th April 2017, Public Forum was organized atIMA, Nagpur where in public awareness lectureswere delivered. Dr. Prashant Nikhade, Vice Chair,West Zone, NISS, Dr. Nitin Deosthale, Coordinator ofVidarbha region NISS, delivered lectures on Physical

and Psychological effects of noise pollution onhuman health and emphasized that preventivemeasures can only help to overcome these illeffects. Dr. B.K. Sharma, Joint Director, RST CancerHospital, Dr. Anil Laddhad, Janaakrosh, Dr. R. Rajan,District Governor Elect Rotary ID 3030, Dr. Y.S.Deshpande, President Elect IMA Maharashtra, putforth their views on prevention of Noise pollution.Dr. Anil Laddhad said, “Banning people from honkingfor 2hours once a week at initial stage ,thenincreasing this period of ban would help to solvethis issue”. Dr. Ashish Disawal , Coordinator ofNagpur, NISS said that it should be a mass movementto bring down noise pollution by Honking. At theend, Dr. Prashant Rathi, Secretary, IMA, Nagpurdeclared that there will be an audiological evaluationof Traffic personnel with the help of NMC.This seminar was attended by Doctors, youngstersand by layperson in large number. Dr. B.K. Sharma,Dr. Ashish Disawal and Dr. Samir Choudhary took hugeefforts to make this event successful.

ACTIVITY REPORT IMA PUNE

Dr. Prasant Nikhade Vice ChairmanNISS addressing

r. Yeshwant Oke, the pioneer Noise Pollution activistsaddressing a public meeting in Pune,

ACTIVITY REPORT - IMA PUNJABNoise Pollution Awareness Day 26th April, 2017

Under the dynamic leadership of Dr RajenderSharma, President, IMA Punjab, Noise PollutionAwareness Day was observed on 26th April, 2017across the various branches. Dr Rohit Kumar Singal,State Coordinator, NISS coordinated with all the localbranches. Through numerous communicationsample information was shared with the Presidentsand Secretaries of all the local branches of the state.A draft memorandum to curb noise pollution wassent to all the branches which they submitted to theirrespective Deputy Commissioner or SDM as the casemay be.( A copy of the draft memorandum isattached herewith.)It is a matter of immense satisfaction that we couldorganise a multitude of activities all across the state.A brief account of these alongwith a few of thephotographs and some of the press clippingsreceived from various IMA branches are given below.IMA Ferozepur(President: Dr Vinod Khanna, Hony Secy: Dr AwtarSingh)IMA Ferozepur organised a CME for its members. Dr

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Rohit Kumar Singal, Senior consultant ENT apprisedthe audience about ill effects of noise pollution.Existing laws to curb noise pollution were discussed.The lecture was followed by an open Questionanswer session. The members resolved to practisesafe sound and propagate this message.

The Daily AjitA copy of the press release in local daily announcingthe start of noise pollution awareness campaignfrom 26th April Dainik BhaskarIMA Kapurthala(President: Dr Subhash Lohia)IMA Kapurthala in association with Traffic Policestarted the noise pollution awareness campaign. DrSubhash Lohia, President IMA Kapurthala and ShDarshan Lal, Incharge Traffic Police sensitised thegeneral public about ill effects of noise and exhortedthem all to contribute in combating this evil.IMA Khanna(President: Dr Major Singh Jawanda, Hony Sec: DrPrateek Varshney)The members of IMA Khanna met the localadministration to enforce NO Horn rule in vicinity ofCivil Hospital. Civil hospital Khanna caters to patientsfrom about 100 nearby villages. It is situated on thevery busy GT Road. Innumerable vehicles passing onthis road daily are source of great noise pollutionand it adversely affects the patients being treatedin this hospital. The administration promised toensure to declare this area as No Horn Zone.

IMA Ludhiana(President: Dr Avinash Jindal, Hony Sec: Dr BimalKanish)IMA Ludhiana organised a talk about Noise pollutionin Distt Hospital, Ludhiana for its members andgeneral public. Dr Vineet Gulati, Sr consultant, ENTeducated the public about ill effects of noise. CivilSurgeon, Dr RajivBhalla was the chief guest. The Chiefguest pleasantly surprised the audience by tracingthe genesis of international noise awareness day.Another Sr Consultant of the town, Dr NarinderVarma, ENT Spl lamented the ever increasingvehicular noise. Dr Jindal demanded strict actionagainst those who are indulging in use of pressurehorn. The Chief Guest Dr Rajiv Bhalla, Civil Surgeon,Ludhiana addressing the gathering

IMA Mansa(President: Dr Janak Singla, Hony Sec: Dr SureshSingla)IMA Mansa was the best performing branch. Underthe leadership of Dr Janak Singla, President and DrSuresh Singla, Hony Secretary IMA Mansa undertook

maximum activities. With their persistent efforts,road leading to Civil Hospital Mansa which is verybusy and congested now stands notified as NO HornZone. They distributed more than 10000 pamphletsregarding awareness and ill effects of noise throughnewspapers in local language. A Cycle Rally was heldfrom Bal Bhawan to Civil Hospital. It was flagged offby the local deputy commissioner. In addition to IMAmembers, members of Rotary clubs, EnvironmentSociety and students of Arya High School participatedin this rally. District Administration and the PoliceDepartment actively participated in the rally. A videoof the cycle rally is enclosed.

IMA MohaliMohali celebrated Honk Free Day (No Horn Day) on30th April 2017 under the leadership of Dr JaswantSingh from PCMS Specialist Doctors Association,Punjab. IMA Mohali, Gynaecologist society of Tricity,and Sargi Kala Kendra, Mohali were collobratingorganizations. A Walkathon against noise pollutionwas organised at 6AM beginning from PHSCauditorium, Phase 6, Mohali and terminating at RoseGarden (near Gurudwara Sahib) Phase 3B2, Mohali.Chief Guest of the occasion was Mr. Varun RunjumIAS, MD Punjab Health System Cooperation. TheGuests of honour were Dr HS Bali DHS PB, DrDharampal DHS (FW PB), Dr Rajesh Sharma DirectorPunjab Health Systems Cooperation, Dr RakeshKayshap DHS UT CHD and Dr Sujata Sharma DRME PB.

IMA Nawanshahar(President: Dr Pawan Kumar, Hony Sec: Dr Amarinder)IMA Nawanshahar examined the hearing status oflocal traffic police at Sarb Hospital. Some of thetraffic personnel were found having hearing lossmore than 50%. Reports of hearing tests were handedover to the concerned officials.

IMA Patiala(President: Dr Rakesh Arora, Hony Sec: DrChanderMohini, Coordinator: Dr DS Bhullar)IMA Patiala held a Health awareness show forgeneral public at Polo Grounds, Patiala wherein theydiscussed the noise pollution and sensitised thecommon man about its ill effects. IMA Patiala hascommitted to spread messages against noisepollution throughout the coming year. Members ofthe IMA and students of Govt Medical College,Patiala took pledge to help curb noise pollution.Dr Rakesh Arora, President IMA Patiala addressingcitizens at Polo Grounds, Patiala Pledge TakingCeremony

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(President: Dr Anil Tandon, Hony Sec: Dr S Rajan)IMA phagwara organised a seminar for its membersat Civil Hospital, Phagwara. Dr Kamal Kishore, SrConsultant ENT delivered the oration. Dr Sarika,Deputy Medical Commissioner, Kapurthala chairedthe session. Dr Anil Tandon, President IMA Phagwarastressed that noise pollution is as important as air orwater pollution.

IMA Ropar(President: Dr Ajay Jindal, Hony Sec: Dr BPS Parmar)Ima Ropar obseved Noise Pollution Awarenaess dayand subitted a memorandum to the DeputyCommissioner. Interestingly, the noise levels in theoffice of the Deputy Commissioner were found tobe above the permissible levels and she was dulyapprised of this fact by the members of the IMA.

IMA Fatehgarh Sahib (Sirhind)(President: Dr Amarpreet Singh Bawa)IMA Fatehgarh Sahib organised Noise PollutionAwareness Day at the busy national highway.Members apprised the motorists of the illeffects ofexcessive honking. The first ever state level effortsin spreading awareness about noise pollution got agood start. With more activities in the comingmonths, it should become a mass movement.

AWAAZ FOUNDATION AND IMA-NISS ACTIVITIES INMUMBAI

The AntiNoise Pollution campaignAwaaz Foundation has led the national antinoisepollution movement for over 14 years and hasconducted numerous legal, advocacy, educationaland awareness campaigns.

Legal interventions include public interest litigationresulting in the first demarcations of Silence Zonesand policy change on vehicular traffic, aviation,festival and firecracker noise. The Courts haveordered noise mapping of all major cities ofMaharashtra and ordered that the noise mapping ofMumbai should be integrated in the DevelopmentPlan of the city for the next 25 years.

Enforcement and advocacy campaigns have includedprimary data generation, citizens’ involvement inensuring enforcement and tie ups with GovernmentDepartments and Police for better implementationof noise abatement policies and measures. Theyhave resulted in change in Government policiesrelated to aviation noise, horns and firecrackers.

Educational campaigns have included tieups with

educational NGO and Government to conductprograms in hundreds of schools in Maharashtra andeducate children against noise pollution.

Awareness campaigns have been carried out alongwith various NGO partners, schools and colleges andGovernment Departments. Campaigns have resultedin a change in awareness levels in Mumbai andcitizens’ participation to control noise, making it theonly Indian city where noise levels reduced fromprevious years during the festival season 2016. TheGovernment of Maharashtra and Mumbai Policethanked citizens of Mumbai for their initiative tomake this happen in December 2016. Some of thesecampaigns in the past year are:#Citizens’NoiseMap and #GetWellSooninpartnership with NGOs and citizens’ groups#TellTheDriver in partnership with citizens’ groupsand Thane Traffic Police#HornFlu in partnership with Indian Medical

Association and Mumbai Police,#NoiseAnnoysand “No Honking Day”in partnershipwith the Times of India#GodsAgainstNoise in partnership with IndianMedical Association, AURED, Sanskar IndiaFoundation and Indian Medical Association#ThankYouMumbai in partnership with MumbaiPolice#TimeForAction in partnership with Mumbai Police

ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS –GUWAHATIWe started the curtain raiser of the event on 24th

April 2017 with distribution of posters of Awarenessagainst Noise pollution and to observe “NO HORNDAY” on 26th April 2017 in 35 schools and 15 policestations in Guwahati. Posters also displayed inDistrict Transport office and Traffic police point.Received overwhelming response everywhere.

Noise awareness message was broadcast in 93.5 RedFM on 25th April throughout the day.

Article on “Noise Pollution was published on 26th

April in local News paper of Assam which is one ofthe highest circulation paper.

I along with representatives of IMA and NorthEastern Branch of AOI (NEBAOI) a press meet wasorganised in Press club of Guwahati on 26th April.

All most all news papers and news channels of Assamcovered the whole programme and focused the illeffects of Noise pollution and its preventivemeasures. We created attention of the authorityparticularly Noise pollution Board, Police and

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Transport Department. I made a power pointpresentation and included the ill effects of Noisepollution.

A television talk show was organised on 26th of Aprilin DY 365, a local popular TV Channel where Noisepollution, its effects and prevention were discussed.Various questions from audience on this subjectwere discussed and request Government to takenecessary steps to prevent Noise pollution.

This awareness programme was also observed on26th of April 2017 in the different parts of Assamparticularly Sibsagar and Silchar by therepresentatives of NEBAOI & IMA.

Immediate respond received from cityadministration that some important areas aredeclared silent zones.

Thanks to NISS for giving me the opportunity for suchan important health issue of our society.ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS-CHENNAIInternational Noise Pollution Day Rally and Seminarconducted by District Collector, Erode District, at IMAHall Erode on 27th April, 2017

ACTIVITY REPORT OF NISS –KERALASTATE LEVEL NO HORN DAY PROGRAMSIMA NISS office bearers contacted the Kerala StateHon’ble Minister, and also the TransportCommissioner and requested to officially declareApril 26th as the no horn day.As per this request Minister for transport, KeralaState Transport Department declared April 26th as theNo Horn Day. In addition Kerala State Police alsojoined IMA in observing the no horn day.No Horn Day was held with much fanfare inTrivandrum , Kochi, Calicut ,Thrissur and also atKollam, Perinthalmanna,and Kunnamkulam .Organised by NISS and respective IMA branches withactive involvement of various Govt agencies andvoluntary organisations. Govt of Kerala,,TourismDept, Kerala State Motor vehicle dept, Kerala Policewere official partners in the campaign.

A preliminary meeting was organized in TVM jointlywith the Transport and Police Departments and alsoother organizatons like Chamber of Commerce,Young Indians, Major schools of TVM, LNCPE, SwasthiFoundations, Rotary Internationals, Media People,CREDAI etc. A week long awareness program wasorganized prior to April 26. Film star Shri.Mohan Lalgave a short message on the importance of no hornday which was aired by all FM stations throughout

Kerala. This was facilitated by Public Relations Dept, Govt of Kerala. All newspapers gave wide coverage, including an Editorial by Mathrubhoomi, the leadingMalayalam daily. Tempo was kept high also throughinterviews and talks in radio channels, TV channels. Information leaflets were distributed throughpetrol pumps and workers in petrol pumps wore Tshirts with message of no horn day.Stickers on no horn day were distributed throughoutKerala during this period by involving student policecadets and students from a lot of educationalinstitutions.Articles on the health issues of noise pollutionwritten by office bearers of IMA –NISS and AOI werepublished in important newspapers during thisweek. The visual media also relayed discussions onthe IMA NISS no horn day.On 23rd April we organized 2 simultaneous vehiclerally one starting from TVM covering upto Trichurand the second one starting from Kozhikode coveringthe northern districts. The Trivandrum rally wasinaugurated by Hon’ble State Minister Sri.Kadakampally Surendran and Calicut rally was by IMAstate President Dr.V.G.Pradeep Kumar.This vehicle rally distributed safe sound awarenessleaflets to the public throughout their route andjersey with no horn day print were distributed tothe staff of the petrol pump enroute.The state level public meeting was organized atMascot Hotel, TVM on 26th April which wasinaugurated by Hon’ble Health Minister Smt.ShylajaTeacher in the presence of IMA state presidentDr.V.G.Pradeep Kumar and IMA state secretary Dr.Samuel Koshy.Special Activities in Major CitiesTRIVANDRUMOn 24th April as a part of the Noise Pollutionawareness week, IMA TVM organized a cycle rallywith the help of Indus Cycle Club and LNCPE, whichcovered the important locations of the TVM city.The students of Sarvodaya and Saraswathy Vidyalayaalong with student Police Cadets of TVM distributedno horn day stickers and awareness leaflets tovehicle owners at important locations of TVM city. Alot of awareness could be generated in thiscampaign in TVM and there was noticeable decreasein the honking tendency in TVM as a result of thisIMA Campaign.KOLLAM

No horn day observed at kollam jointly by IMA NISSand Rotary club of kollam. Awareness class aboutnoise pollution conducted by Dr Sujith V, chairmanNISS kollam district.Program inauguration done by Mahesh Kumar IPS,

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ACP kollam city. Senior IMA leaders Dr SashidharanPillai and Dr George attend the function along withrotary district leaders. Stickers pasted promoting “NoHorn” over automobiles.KOCHIFor the first time in Kerala, NO HORN DAY wasconducted in Cochin on December 1st 2016 b NISSand IMA Cochin Branch. Kerala state motor vehicledept, Corporation of Cochin, Kochi city police,Ernakulam distrct administration were officialpartners. SCMS group of institutions, St AlbertsCollege, Young Indians, and Rajagiri school of socialsciences were also partners

Generated a big tempo of NO HORN DAY,one weekprior ,through press meets, interviews in FM radiochannels and TV channels, news papers write ups,flash mob by students etc. Also put up 56 hoardingsin and around Kochi with the message of no hornday. Banners were exhibited at vantage points.Stickers were put on cars of doctors and othervehicles of participating institutions.

Public meeting was held at Vyttila mobility hub onDec 1st. Mayor of Kochi, MLAs, RTO ,and large groupof public participated.Campaigns weresimultaneously conducted at 30 stations in variousparts of Kochi city. 850 students and teachersparticipated in the campaign. Drivers weremotivated and public were sensitised.throughplacards , leaflets, and other exhibits.Response wastremendous. Various FM radios channels conductedlive prorammes throughout the day and kept thetempo high

All news papers and five TV channels covered theevent extensively. First NO HORN DAY could producea large impact among public ,media andadministration. Major campaign was held at SN fuelson National Highway. Large group f students andteachers from SCMS group of institution participatedin the campaign. Mr V ijayan IPS, IG of Policeinaugurated. RTO Mr Sadik Ali, Young Indians etcparticipated. Wide coverage was given throughmedia and there was a substancial reduction in useof horn in Kochi on the day and subsequent days

VATAKARA

NoHorn Day was organised under the banner of NISSand IMA Vatakara branch n December 1.Publicmeeting was held near municipality office .Campaign was held among drivers and students.

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NO HONKING DAY on April 26th, Thrissur District levelInauguration of the programme was conducted atKunnamkulam Town at 10 am. IMA Kunnamkulam in Association with NISS , KunnamkulamMunicipality, Kunnamkulam Police Station, ThrissurDTF , Lions Club Thrissur City & Kunnamkulam, AutoTaxi Drivers Association Kunnamkulam conducted aMega Noise pollution awareness seminar for thepublic . Special guest, ASI of police Mr Joy releasedspecial informative booklet on “Hearing Noise” byhanding over a copy to Municipal chairperson.Health Education Class on complications of highvolume sounds was taken by NISS MidzoneCoordinator and ENT Specialist Dr C.K.Madhuaudanan. In and around the city, hoardings and notices were exhibited, distributed booklet andnotices to public and all drivers. Hoardings were putin the prominent parts of Thrissur city also andnotices on Noise pollution were distributed to alltaxi drivers.PERINTHALMANNAA function is organized at Govt HospitalPerinthalmanna campus by IMA Perinthalmanna,NISS and AOI to aware the public about the noisepollution, its consequences and to announce aboutthe ‘No Horn Day’ to be observed on 26th April,2017. The Program was inaugurated byPerinthalmanna MLA Sri. Manjalamkuzhi Ali. Duringthe function IMA Perinthalmanna Branch PresidentD r . M o h a m m e d a l i , D r . K . A . S e e t h i a n dDr. Shaji Gafoor talked about the health relatedissues of noise pollution. As a part of reduction ofnoise pollution at public places IMA, NISS and AOIcombined program ‘No Horn Day’ was explained topublic and requested them to cooperate with theinitiative. After the public function around5000 leaflets and stickers about the program weredistributed to drivers and pedestrians.

25.04.2017IMA Perinthalmanna took part actively in theofficial inauguration of ‘No Horn Day’ to beobserved on 26th April, 2017. The function wasorganized by NISS (National Initiative for SafeSound), IMA and AOI in association with KeralaPolice and Motor Vehicle Department. Theinauguration of ‘No Horn Day’ and flag off wasconducted at the Malappuram Collector OfficeCampus. The function was attended byMalappuram District Collector,Sri. Amit Mina, Superintend ofPolice Debesh Kumar Behera IPS, DistrictMedical Officer Dr. Sakeena, Malappuram DTFChairman Dr. Pareed and RTO attended theprogram. From IMA Perinthalmanna many senior

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members like National Chairman of NISSDr. K.A.Seethi, Past IMA National Vice PresidentDr. V.U.Seethi, Dr. Sharafudheen.K. and Dr. Gireesh Raj haveattended the function. The program wasattended by various state leaders of IMA,representatives from all the branches of IMA inMalappuram district, District Rotary ClubMembers, students from MES Medical CollegePerinthalmanna and Manjeri medical College.The function was also attended by taxi drivers’union members, cycle club members apart frompublic. During the function various speakersexplained the health issues of noise pollutionand need to act against noise pollution. All thespeakers requested the public to cooperatewith the ‘No Horn Day’ program and also to givemaximum publicity about the program amongtheir family members and friends.

25.04.2017The Executive Committee Meeting of IMAPerinthalmanna Branch for the month ofApril is held on 25th April, 2017 at IMAPerinthalmanna Blood Bank Auditorium.The meeting discussed the activities of IMAPerinthalmanna branch. The meetingdiscussed the plans for the ‘No Horn Day’observation to be held on 26th April, 2017.The meeting also discussed about the Statelevel AMS meeting at Kunnamkulam on30th April, 2017 and the need to participatemaximum members and the meetingdecided to pay the registration fee of themembers attending the program.

26.04.2017IMA Perinthalmanna branch as a part ofNational Initiative for Safe Sound observed‘No Horn Day’ on 26th April, 2017. TheMembers of IMA branch pasted stickers ontheir vehicle about the ‘No Horn Day’. Avehicle displaying the posters of ‘No HornDay’ was roaming around the town to awarethe public and drivers about the day. Therewas a public function at the MoulanaHospital campus which was attendedby National NISS Chairman Dr. K.A.Seethi,Perinthalmanna Municipal ChairmanMr. Saleem, DYSP and RTO and students andstaff members of Moulana Hospital. Duringthe function senior drivers were honoredfor safe driving.

Another function was arranged at theAscent ENT Hospital Campus which wasattended by National NISS ChairmanDr. K.A.Seethi, IMA PerinthalmannaSecretary Dr. Sujith S Nair, Dr. Deviprasan,Dr. Anuradha Varma and staff members ofAscent Hospital, Perinthalmanna MunicipalChairman, CI of PoliceMr. Pramod and Joint RTO Mr. Sahadevan.There was a street drama displaying the badeffects and health issues of noisepollution.

KOZHIKODECampaign committee meeting held on April 24, 2017at IMA Hall, Kozhikode. Meeting was presided byIMA President Dr. Ajitha, welcome address by Dr.Abdul Khader, Chairman NISS, Kozhikode, ChiefGuest was Mr. Babu Parassery. District PanchayatPresident Guest of honor was Mr. Janil Kumar, ADM,Kozhikode. Keynote address given by Dr. Najeeb,Regional Deputy Transport commissioner. Peoplefrom various walks of life attended the meeting.Prominent personalities Father Panakkal BishopHouse, Shri Krishnan Unni Raja from Samoothiri fmily,Mr. Unaise of AGM of Markaz, Mr. Vasan Nellikodesocial activist.On 24/4/17, vehicle rally flagged off from Kozhikodebeach by IMA State President Dr. V G Pradeep Kumar,Dr. Ajitha, Kozhikode President presided thefunction. Vehicle rally covered the entire Malabarregion distributing pamphlets about ill effects ofnoise pollution.On 26/4/17 public function was organized at Sportscouncil Hall, Mananchira Kozhikode. The functionwas presided by Dr. Ajitha, IMA President, Kozhikode, welcome address by Dr. Abdul Khader, ChairmanNISS Kozhikode. Inauguration aand launching ofnoise free Kozhikode campaign by Worshipful Mayorof Calicut, Shri Thottathil Raveendran. Messagegiven by Dr. Najeeb, Regional deputy Transportcommissioner. Vote of Thanks by Dr. SankarMahadevan, convenor, NISS, Kozhikode.

Cycle rally was organized on 26/4/17, along withpeddlers club of Calicut. It was flagged off by Mr. A KBabu, ACP Traffic.Safe sound Initiative programmes organized jointlywith Rotary International.Three seminars were organized one at Chengannur,Kollam and Vaikom on noise pollution health issueswhich was attended by office bearers of RotaryInternational Districts 3211,Club presidents,

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Report of activities 2016-2017 of Preventing Diabetic Blindness (PDB) in India ProjectDr NSD Raju, Chairman PDB

secretaries and other Rotarians.

This was to enable the Rotarians to speak on healthissues of noise pollutions in their locality. In the last5 months different Rotary Clubs organized classeson safe sound initiative in different schools.Noise Pollution Awareness in the syllabusOn the Initiative of IMA NISS the Noise PollutionHealth issues has been included as a chapter in theeighth standard syllabus by Govt of Kerala. We areextremely thankful to the Education Minister Prof.Raveendranath, for this support. We need to takethis strategy to different states in the coming years.Meeting with parliamentary Committee onProposed Transport Act.On 13th October Dr.John Panicker and Dr.K.Dineshrepresented IMA Kerala and presented oursuggestions on Road accidents rescue and alsoreducing the traffic level noise in the country. TheHon’ble Parliament members were extremely happyto know that the IMA has an awareness campaign onhealth issues of noise pollution and congratulatedthe medical community for starting such a veryimportant project.The Honble members has directed the SecretaryTransport Ministry to interact with NISS officebearers before framing the rules and regulations inconnection with the upcoming Road Safety Act. Thiswe believe as a great recognition of social Initiativeof Indian Medical Association, NISS.Meeting with Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Hon MinisterThe IMA office bearers met Dr.Harsh VardhanHon’ble Minister for Science,Technology andEnvironment and appraised on the need forenhancing the punishment of noise abusers in the

already existing environment rules. We have alsosuggested an official awareness campaign on HealthIssues of Noise Pollution, nationally. The HonMinister has invited the office bearers for a meetingat his office with the details which we are followingup.

CONCLUSIONEventhough we had done a lot of activities in thelast one year, we need to spread the message ofSafe Sound further in various parts of our country.For this, we need the support of all IMA members,nationwide. If the medical community takes chargeof the campaign, we are sure to succeed in this greatventure. We feel, the best strategy will be to makethe students community, aware of the various healthissues of noise pollution. In this regard the studentIMA can contribute a lot. We are happy that alreadythe student IMA had joined the NO HORN DAYobservance at various places.The office bearers of NISS are extremely thankful tothe National leaders led by our beloved NationalPresident Dr. K K Agarwal ji, Past National PresidentDr. Marthanda Pillai, President elect Dr. RaviWankedkar, Hon Secretary Dr. R N Tandon, and financesecretary Dr. V K Monge for their guidance andparticipation in NISS activities.Jai IMA

Dr. KA Seethi Dr. AjayKumar Lekhi Dr. JohnPanicker Dr. C N RajaChairman Vice ChairCoordinator Convenor

With an estimated population of 66.6 million diabetics in India , our country has now earned the dubious distinction of being the’ Diabetic Capital’ ofthe world. And among the diabetics in India, 15 million have diabetic retinopathy which may lead toirreversible blindness if not detected and treatedearly . Diabetes is a serious life style disease thatcan affect various systems in our body producing diabetic complications, most common being Diabeticretinopathy, a leading cause of blindness. The increasing incidence of Diabetic Blindness is a serioushealth issue and a great concern for the healthcaresystem in the country . Realizing the gravity of the

situation National IMA d launched the prestigiousproject Prevention of Diabetic Blindness (PDB inIndia). Ever since it was launched in 2015, the projectis being successfully implemented all over India asan ongoing program Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Clinics are now being organized regularly in thevarious districts of different states, and diabeticblindness awareness posters and display boards arebeing displayed at clinics, hospitals and medical institutes. I am also very happy to report that the AllIndia Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) has sincejoined hands with IMA in the implementation of thePDB project and it has become a joint venture of the

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two associations. So this joint collaboration of IMAand AIOS has given us a very strong and broad platform to implement this program.. Similarly Press andMedia too have an important role to play. With ourpersistence and perseverance in the implementation of this prestigious project, the ushering in of abright new era is in the offing, in our continuing fightagainst scourge of Diabetic Blindness.

Report of activities PDB 20162017 Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Clinics are now being organized regularly in all districts of the Statesand diabetic blindness awareness posters and display boards are being displayed at clinics, hospitalsand medical institutes

Starting 14 November to 21 December 2016,during the World Diabetes Day and fortnight 2016,the theme of which this time is ‘Women and Diabetes ‘ Most State IMA branches have already startedimplementing the Diabetic Detection and DiabeticRetinopathy screening clinics in association with AllIndia ophthalmological Society (AIOS) We are grateful to AIOS for the excellent help and support extended to us for the successful implementation ofthe World Diabetes Day activities. We also take thisopportunity to express our gratitude and gratefulness to National IMA Headquarters for helping usorganize this project at the National level in all thestates in the country. We are receiving very encouraging reports from most of the States. They includeOdisha, Kerala, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi,Haryana and Karnataka. The other states are also following suit. We are now in the process of compilingall the data from all the diabetes detection andscreening of diabetics for diabetic retinopathy clinics. It may be noted that we are also taking measuresto follow up the diabetics and Diabetic retinopathypatients. Our intention is to make this project as anongoing program. A detailed project report will beprepared and presented to the Government Thesuccess of any comprehensive project like this willneed the involvement and support of the government.

Diabetes Walk Kochi IMA AIOS PDB (Prevention ofDiabetic Blindness) Project WDD World Diabetes Dayfortnight program

KSOS (Kerala Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons), under the able leadership of KSOS President Dr SajuJoseph, and Dr. Sony George, conducted the Diabetes Walk as part of the intensive Diabetic BlindnessAwareness campaign launched by the IMA AIOSProject Prevention of Diabetic Blindness (PDB) in

India.Chairman of the Project flagged off the 'Walkathon'.Dr.BK Nayak, General secretary AIOS, Dr. Saju Joseph,President KSOS, Dr Thomas Cherian, Secretary KSOS,Dr K V Raju, Dr R R Varma, Dr Narayanan Kutty, Dr.Meenakshi Dhar, Dr Joggy Joseph, Dr Gopal Pillai, DrSai Kumar, Dr Roshan, Dr. Sheshadri, Mr K KHaridas(Movie Director), Mrs Sherin Kumar (Mrs India finalist and Zimba Specialist), also spoke on theoccasion. Chairman Dr NSD Raju informed that a Nationwide Diabetes Detection and Diabetic Retinopathy screening clinics are being conducted all over thecountry from 14 Nov 30 Nov 2016. He said that ourcrusade against diabetes and diabetic blindness willcontinue and that henceforth this IMA AIOS ProjectPDB, will be implemented as an ongoing programwith the involvement and participation of Governmental and NonGovernmental Organizations andAgencies

IMA – AIOS PDB ( Prevention of Diabetic Blindness )Project Odisha State

As part of Doctor's Day Program 1st July 2017 IMAAIOS Prevention of Diabetic Blindness (PDB), anawareness Program was organized by the I M ABerhampur branch at Sitalapalli. Village

Besides awareness campaign and meeting, a diabeticdetection clinic was also held and 100 patients underwent diabetes screening by blood sugar estimation. Around 250 patients were tested for diabeticeye disease. A team of doctors from IMA and AIOSincluding Dr E P Rao, President IMA BerhampurBranch, PDB State Convener and IMA BerhampurHonorary SecretaryDr K K Panigrahy, IMA PDB StateCoordinatorDr B N R Subudhi(Prof. OphthalmologyMKCG Medical College), Diabetologist Dr P C Patroand Ophthalmic Surgeon Dr K N Sahu (IMA AIOS) participated. The Berhampur branch of IMA has decidedto continue the Diabetic Blindness campaign as anongoing program in association with All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS )

Report of IMA Project ‘Prevention of DiabeticBlindness’(PDB) Kerala state level activities in association with Kerala Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons(KSOS)

We are happy to report that activities relating to Prevention of Diabetic Blindness are going on in fullswing in the state. The following is a brief account ofthe actions we have undertaken in the implementation of the projectMeeting with Mayor. Dr K V Raju . Chairman PDB and

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IMA President Dr.Ajitha and Dr.Jyothi. P.T. ,Professorand Head of the DEpartment of Ophthalmology, Govt.Medical college ,Kozhikode participated. It was decided to screen all Diabetic patients for Diabetic retinopathy and for ongoing treatment if necessary. Freefollow up treatment is being provided at the Medical college Hospital Kozhikode .On 16 May 2017 we organised a Diabetic retinopathyscreening clinic at Nadakave. Worshipful Mayor, Sri.Thottahil Raveendran inaugurated the screeningclinic . More than 200 diabetic patients were screenedand 6 diabetics diagnosed to have diabetic retinopathy were selected for follow up, and in addition ,two patients underwent free free Cataract surgery.

3. Diabetic Screening camp at Pantheeran Kave.

A total of 130 diabetic patients were screened fordiabetic retinopathy and 2 patients with diabetic retinopathy selected for follow up. Three patients underwent r Cataract surgery.

3.Screening camp at Kallai PHC.About 140 diabetics screened for diabetic retinopathy and 5 patients with retinopathy referred fortreatment and follow up. Also, 3 patients were selected for Cataract surgery.All the patients were treated free of cost at Medicalcollege

In addition to these ongoing program we are organizing a statewide Diabetic detection and Diabeticretinopathy screening clinics all over the state during the forthcoming World Diabetes Day 14 November 2017 in collaboration with National IMA AIOSPDB Project. District level committees are beingformed for the implementation of this program incollaboration with KSOS

IMAAIOS Project 'Prevention of Diabetic Blindness(PDB)'Launched in Bihar State

The prestigious IMA AIOS PDB Project was inaugurated at Patna on 24 June 2017. The event was organized jointly under the auspices of IMA Bihar Stateand Bihar Ophthalmological Society.The Chief Guest of the function Hon’ble Minister(Revenue) of Bihar State Sri Madan Mohan Jha inaugurated the PDB project in Bihar and he underlinedthe importance of early diagnosis and appropriatetreatment of diabetic eye disease to prevent blindness due to Diabetes. He said the state governmentwill extend all support and help for the implementation of this prestigious Project in BiharDr NSD Raju Chairman IMA PDB, Dr Rajvardhan Azad

Past President AIOS, Dr BNR Subudhi National coordinator PDB Project, Dr D J Pandey, Dr SwapanSamanta and Dr Harihar Dikshit, Dr Satyajit Sinha alsoparticipated. Dr Harihar Dikshit Secretary IMA BiharState proposed a vote of thanksThe inaugural function was followed by a Continuing Medical Education Program on Diabetic Retinopathy. Dr NSD Raju, Chairman IMA PDB Project brieflyoutlined the Project's aim of creating and spreadingawareness on Diabetic Blindness and on measuresto screen all diabetics for diabetic retinopathy. Aspart of the awareness campaign on Diabetic Blindness, a Diabetes Walkathon was held at Patna on 25thmorning. A large number of public also participated.This was followed by a diabetes detection and diabetic retinopathy screening clinic. A non mydriaticfundus camera/indirect ophthalmoscope was usedto screen for diabetic retinopathy and for documenting retinal imagesDistrict level PDB Activities will be initiated from nextmonth onward and will continue as an ongoing program in the State. Dr Sunil Singh and Dr HariharDikshit, convener PDB and state PDB Coordinatorrespectively, are already charting out a program toimplement the program in the state

More and more reports are being received from various States and these will be included in the subsequent reports

IMA PDB World Diabetes Day Activities

November 14th 2017 is World Diabetes Day andtheme this time is ‘Women and Diabetes’IMA PDB in association with AIOS is organizing nationwide activities which will include awarenessCampaigns on diabetes and diabetic blindness, anddiabetic retinopathy screening for all diabetics. Weare planning to hold these activities at the IMA localbranch level with help and support of AIOS. A detailed program has already been drafted and is being communicated to all IMA and AIOS branches.We would like to place on record our sincere grati

tude and gratefulness for the excellent support andhelp our IMA leaders Dr K K Agarwal, Dr MarthandaPillai , Dr Tandon, Dr Monga,DrVinay Agarwal, Dr DR Rai and AIOS leaders Dr Santhan Gopal D , Dr DRamamurthy, Dr Debasish Bhattacharya, Dr QureshMaskati and Dr BK Nayak.We also take this opportunity to thank all otherswho supported and helped us in the implementation of this project right from its inception.

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Report of Activities in 2017 for IMA Prevention of Diabetic Blindness project in association with AIOS

Introduction

IMA Prevention of Diabetic Blindness (PDB)projectwas originally conceived and launched in the year2015 the then National President Dr. Marthanda Pillaiand the then Honorary Secretary General of IMA Dr.K K Agarwal . Ever since the PDB Project has beeninitiated the program is being successfully launchedin different states in a phased manner. The projectenvisages a dual approach to the Prevention ofDiabetic Blindness Program in India. The All IndiaOphthalmological Society officially joined handswith IMA in the implementation of the programthanks to Dr. Debasish Battacharya, the thenPresident of AIOS and Dr. Quresh Maskati , PastPresident AIOS. Thus now we have a broaderplatform and a stronger infrastructure to implementthe program. Our ultimate intention is to implementthe program in all the state of India. In fact ever sincethe project has been launched, it has been successfully being implemented in Gujarat, Odisha,Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi and West Bengal . Nowthe project is in its third year of existence

PDB activities for 2017

National President Dr. K K Agarwal is very keen onimplementing the PDB program all across thecountry this year. To achieve this, he has suggestedcreation of posts of state coordinators in all thestates. Accordingly, a State Coordinator and a StateConvener have been already nominated in all thestates The IMA PDB activities are now moreeffectively being implemented in the state. In fact,in many states the coordinators have identifieddistrict level leaders also to assist in theimplementation of the program.

A National PDB Steering Committee has beenconstituted for the overall evaluation, assessmentand policy decisions. The first meeting of theCommittee will be held in July 2017 in Mumbai.

To create and spread awareness on DiabeticBlindness, Information Posters have been made andthese are being displayed in the Clinic, hospitals andmedical Institutions. The State coordinators in all theStates have been requested to promote andimplement this PDB awareness campaign in all theirrespective states. Efforts are also on for displayingthese information posters at public places likerailway stations, airports, malls etc. These postersare being made in English, Hindi and in vernacular.

The AIOS and IMA is now work together to bring inVoluntary Organizations and governmentalagencies into the PDB Project implementationprocess.

As part of the Diabetic Blindness awarenesscampaign regular health education messages mustt be broadcast on Doordarshan and other TV channelFor this the we are approaching the centralGovernment authorities and other concerned toconvince them the urgent need to spread themessage of preventing blindness from Diabetes inour country

IMA PDB has come out with a free android app‘Diabret’ which will help diabetic patient achievegood control of Diabetes and help prevent DiabeticRetinopathy and other complications of Diabetes.We have already initiated action to produce the Appon the Apple and the Windows platform as well andwill soon be available from the respective App Stores

PDB has an official Facebook Page ‘Prevention ofDiabetic Blindness in India ‘. IMA and AIOS willpopularize this Page and also contribute usefulmessages on Diabetes and diabetic blindness. ThePage will also give all relevant information relatingto Diabetic blindness prevention and also updateinformation on the activities of PDB in the country.

We are also looking into the feasibility and efficacyof relatively inexpensive non mydriatic camera tograb retinal images. The initial results have beenquite encouraging. We have been able to acquiregood quality fundus photographs in high resolutionfor diagnosing and documenting diabeticretinopathy. In fact two such cameras have beenacquired by two private hospitals in Kerala . Even anonmedical trained person can take quality fundusphotographs with this camera without dilatation ofthe pupil. We are awaiting the results of this PilotStudy

Voluntary organizations like Rotary Internationalalso have come out to join hands with us in our fightagainst Diabetic Blindness Preliminary discussionswith them have been quite encouraging We havefinal round of parley with the Rotary Internationalat Mumbai on 15 April 2017

Meanwhile our regular activities are going on in fullswing in most of the states especially in those stateswhere the Project has been officially launched. Ouraim is to cover all the remaining states by the end of2017. Many states are already in the process oflaunching the IMA PDB project in their state. Biharstate has its official launch of the PDB project on 7May2017 at Patna. Other remaining states will alsofollow suit.

Dr NSD RajuChairman IMA PDB

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Activity report of IMA Care for Elderly Project

Chief coordinator Dr. D R. Rai and Convener Dr.Samuel Koshy attended President Secretaries meet.

Circular was sent to all the State Presidents, StateSecretaries and CWC members to implement theproject an effective way.

Kerala State Branch under the leadership of D. M KPaulose State Chairman of the Care of Elderly isworking very efficiently. First State level meetingwas conducted on 15th January and Circular was senton the district representative to implement theproject in an effective way. A number of medicalcamps and disease detection camps, get together ofsenior citizens consoling programs etc…. wereconducted in different branches of state to mentiona few report received from Perumbavoor, Cochin,Kunnamkulam, Peinthalmanna, Malappuam,Valanchery, Kozhikode, Kollam, Trivandrumbranches. Even though many other branches haveconducted the program report are not receive.

Wadothara branch of Gujarath, Goa state Kalkatta,Erod banch of Tamilnadu and a number of otherbranches are conducting the Care of ElderlyPrograms

We are very sorry to inform that even thoughprograms are conducted in different branches anddifferent states we are not getting proper repot.

This year we have given circulars to all the statebranches to carry out the following programs.

1. To discuss the project in Branch level for formingmodalities of implementing the project.

2. Awareness programmes for doctors.

3. To arrange special counseling programmes forelders and care takers.

4. To contact local body authorities to start day carecentres or day care centres can be started by IMAwith the help of other organisations.

5. ‘World Elders Abuse Awareness Day’ is on June15th and October 1st is the ‘World Elders Day’.These days may be observed in a befittingmanner by conducting public meetings, geriatriccamps, get together of old people, organisingsports and cultural programmes and honouringof senior most citizens or eminent senior citizensin the area. The programmes can be organisedas weeklong commemoration.

6. Home care may be arranged for the needyelders.

7. Free medical camps for elders, cataract detectioncamps, Bone density camps and otherrehabilitate measurers.

8. To declare maximum Care of Friendly hospitals

With the help of National President Dr. K K AgarwalHon Secretary General Dr.Tanton and all other leaderswill try to do maximum activities in the rest of theyear

Dr V U Seethi Dr D. R Rai Dr Samuel KoshyChairman Chief Coordinator Convenor


Agenda Item No. B-44Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) – Prevention & Response (Phase – II)

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a widespread phenomenon and a major public health concern. Medicalprofessionals have a vital role to play in the prevention, detection and response to sexual offences againstchildren. This training on Child Sexual Abuse – Prevention & Response had been conceived in order toensure that a welltrained cadre of doctors was created and equipped with the knowledge of how torecognize, diagnose, treat and prevent cases of CSA.

Indian Medical Association (IMA) and UNICEF joined hands to strengthen medical practitioners in preventingand treating child sexual abuse, and highlighted the role of medical faculty indisseminating the importancein this regard to future medical professionals. Towards this objective, the two partner organisationscollaborated to conduct a series of one day State Level Workshop on “Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) – Prevention& Response (Phase – II)” in three states – Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Assam, for Doctors and MedicalCollege Faculties.

IMA has trained a number of doctors through the Training and the doctortrainers forwarded the training to

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STATE VENUE DATE No. of delegates participated

ASSAM Guwahati February 26, 2017 34

JHARKHAND Ranchi March 19, 2017 60

CHATTISGARH Raipur March 26, 2017 40

state and district levels under supervision of IMA State Branches. To assist the doctortrainers, UNICEF hasprovided technical support to IMA for the preparation of a teaching manual and key messages for doctors.Report of State Level workshop on CSA Phase – II organised by IMA – UNICEF

The inauguration was followed by the academic sessions as per the schedule provided to the delegates. Tostart, the delegates were each asked to anonymously fill in a pretest questionnaire on Understanding ofand Attitudes to Child Sexual Abuse, which would be analyzed subsequently to gain an overall view of theparticipants' understanding of the subject. The same questionnaire was also presented to them at the endof the training, to serve as a tool to gauge their increased understanding of the issue at hand.The workshops were conducted by esteemed faculty such as Dr. Jagadeesh Narayanreddy, Forensic Expert;Dr. Rajeev Seth, Paediatrician and Chair of the ICANCL Group of the Indian Academy of Paediatricians; andDr. Harisha Delanthabettu, Professor of Psychiatry.Dr. R. N. Tandon, Honorary Secretary General, IMA


Report of International activities:

IMA officials attended 206th World Medical Association (WMA) Council Meeting held from April 20th to 22nd

April, 2017 Zambia. Dr Desai was at the head table in the 206th council meeting of WMA held on 2022nd April2017. Dr Ajay Kumar deliberated on all issues of WMA as the council member putting forth the views ofIMA. In his Presidential report Dr Desai brought out various initiatives and dispensations by him onbehalf of WMA during the impending period from October 2016 till date were adopted.Dr Ketan Desai, Past National President, IMA and President, WMA attended the Annual Meeting of SwedishMedical Association in Stockholm from 29th May to 31st May 2017 at, Sweden.

Dr Ketan Desai, Past National President, IMA and President, WMA attended the Annual Meeting of theAmerican Medical Association on June 1014, 2017 at, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

IMA officials attended the BMA Annual Representative Meeting on Sunday 25 June – Thursday 29 June2017 at Bournemouth. Their main areas on International work is education, health security, charity projects,fair medical trade projects, immigration policies, health of workers in equipment supply chains. There is aparadigm shift in consent form: One need to inform even the rare of the rare possibility of complications.In anaesthesia consent needs to be taken that a patient has been given a choice of surgery withoutanaesthesia and he wants surgery under anaesthesia. IMA and BMA can have exchange programs for theoffice bearers. There is no immunity to doctors in media for reporting against allegations

IMA officials attended the 32nd CMAAO General Assembly held on September 13–15, 2017 in Tokyo (Japan)where the Presentation on End of Life Issues – India Perspective was presented by Dr K K Aggarwal, nationalPresident and our Country Repot of IMA was presented by Dr. R N Tandon, Hony. Secretary General, IMA . DrKK Aggarwal took over as the 1st V ice President CMAAO and will take over as the President Elect in 2018 atMalasya. Dr R N Tandon was inducted in the Constitution and Bylaws committee.

Indian Medical Association is successfully making its presence felt in all International medical Fora.

President, World Medical Association, Dr Ketan Desai has always ensured that the Indian and IMA flagskeep flying high when it comes to International Medical issues.

The IMA delegation led by President, World Medical Association, Dr Ketan Desai attended 2nd WVAWMAGlobal Conference on One Health, held on 10th & 11th November, 2016 in Japan and received wide acclaims.

This was followed by a highly successful trip in connection with the Annual Scientific Meeting of Chinese

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Medical Association held on 1415 January, 2016 at Nanjing (China).

The Indian delegation was invited to attend World Conference Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Lawheld on March 2123, 2017 at Cyprus. This was in connection with the Chairs in Bioethics awarded by UNESCOto IMA leaders all over the country.

IMA organised an International Summit on Air Pollution Health Advisories at New Delhi on March 10, 2017which was attended by renowned International dignitaries.

It is my proud privilege to reiterate that Indian Medical Association has already accepted to hold theCMAAO General Assembly and Council meeting in 2019 at Goa, where National President, IMA, Dr K KAggarwal will take over as the President, CMAAO during the Assembly.

We are striving hard to keep continuous good relations with all our International counterparts.

Dr K K Aggarwal Dr R N TandonNational President, IMA Honorary Secretary General, IMA

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IMA ACCREDITATION AND ACADEMIC COUNCILI.M.A House Indraprastha Marg,New Delhi 110002Telephones:+91112337 0009(10 lines),23378680Email: hsg@imaindia.org, [email protected]

Subject: Application for Honorary Professor IMA

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Adress :Office

Residence

Email address

Contact number landline mobile

2.Qualifications:

3.Specialty Practiced: Family practice /specialty (specify)

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10.Area(s) of Research work if any

11.Membership of Professional medical associations /others

12.Number of scientific conferences attended in last 3 years (tick appropriate role)

As delegate /speaker /organizer

13.Number of IMA talk delivered in last 3 years (Pl mention topics covered)

14.Extracurricular activities (Hobbies)

15.Strengths to be a IMA Professor (not more than 250 words)

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Declaration:I hereby solemnly declare and affirm that all statements made in this application are true, complete andcorrect to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that in the event of any information beingfound untrue /false/incorrect or any column left blank in my application then my candidature is liable tobe cancelled /terminate and no further correspondence /query shall be entertained.

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16.Assessment for the following Traits (rating to be given by the recommending member in scale of 1 to 5,1 is poor,2 is fair, 3 good, 4 very good and 5 excellent)1. Communication skills2. Presentation skills3. Innovative in use of technology in classroom4. Time management5. Classroom Discipline maintenance6. Easily approachable / affable7. Aware of student’s interest and needs8. Inspiring and motivation skills9. Knowledge regarding subject10. Leadership qualities11. Enthusiasm and passion for teaching12. Honest, moral & Ethical13. Up to date with recent advancements in subject and use of technology14. Caring and shows empathy towards students15. Punctuality

Name of the recommending IMA Life member signatureIMA registration numberEmail Date:Mobile no.Address

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DRAFTIMA Policy regarding industrial association and Accreditation of CMEs

Quality & Safe care is the need of the day. Forimproving the healthcare scenario in our country,continuous professional & skill development shouldbe priority to improve the outcomes and healthcarescenario.Indian Medical Association (IMA) is the largestassociation of modern medicine doctors with over 3lacs members spread over 1700 branches countrywide and is the only representative, nationalvoluntary organisation of Doctors of ModernScientific System of Medicine, which looks after theinterest of doctors as well as the wellbeing of thecommunity at large.

IMA Objectives:To promote and advance medical and allied sciencesin all their different branches and to promote theimprovement of public health and medical educationin IndiaTo maintain the honour and dignity and to upholdthe interest of the medical profession and topromote cooperation amongst the membersthereof;To work for the abolition of compartmentalism inmedical education, medical services and registrationin the country and this to achieve equality among allmembers of the profession.Being a responsible scientific Nonprofit association,IMA is envisaging a program for professional and skilldevelopment for the health care professionals toimprove healthcare outcomes aligned with need ofour country. No single organisation alone can achievethe said objective. IMA recognizes the need to havea policy on relationships with industry and otherorganizations that ensures proper balance,independence, objectivity and scientific rigor ingovernance and in education, research and all otheractivities/ tasks being undertaken by the IMA. Thesecollaborations /affiliations will help to run suchprograms and for sustenance and growth of theassociation. These collaborations /affiliations can bewith NGOs/Not for profit or commercial institutionsor organisations on clear terms and conditions asmutually discussed. Depending upon the businessand nature of the affiliating institution/organisation,the financial terms & conditions shall be addressedin form of profit sharing or on barter basis or free.IMA is creating /developing resources in thatdirection to achieve the objectives of the society.

IMA is envisaging a program for “CME Accreditation”aligned with its one of the objective “To promote

and advance medical and allied sciences in all theirdifferent branches and to promote the improvementof public health and medical education in India”. IMAshall be the body accrediting institutions andorganizations offering continuing medical educationin India. Continuous Medical Education (CME)consists of educational activities which serve tomaintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skillsand professional performance and relationship thata healthcare professional to provide services forpatients, public or profession. CME support theneeds of the healthcare professionals in the changinghealth care environment. Basic healthcareprofessional degree enables a health professionalto start practice medicine, for the rest of their career,professionals rely on accredited CME to help themimprove their practice and deliver high quality, safe,effective patient care.

Healthcare Educational institutions /Nonprofitorganisations having a registered office in India, whoare in to medical education/ training of thehealthcare professionals can apply to IMA for grantof accreditation of their CME sessions /programs.This shall help to transform healthcare scenario inour country to provide quality & Safe care to careseekers.IMA has set certain standards and conditions for theparticipating partners for getting CMEs accredited.

IMA PHILOSOPHY AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES forrelationship with industry and other organizations:1.With respect to industry support (for purposes ofthis document, encompasses the full range ofrelationships between IMA and industry, includingthe purchase of services (such as advertising andexhibit space), grants for educational programs, andsponsorship of activities) either from forprofit orfrom notfor profit corporations.2. Any corporate support must help to foster IMAmission and purpose. 3. Any activity for whichcorporate support is accepted must be under IMA’scomplete control.3. IMA does not permit corporate support tocompromise its independence and integrity.4. IMA is transparent in its acceptance of anycorporate support; the identity of the corporatesupporter is noted prominently with the activity thatis being supported.5. IMA acceptance of corporate support does notimply IMA endorsement of the supporting entity or

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any of its activities.6. IMA accepts grants to conduct activities that fosterthe advancement of health care organization (suchas educational programs).7. IMA accepts sponsorship for social functions andother selected meeting services and activities forconference attendees; IMA retains complete controlover such functions, services, and activities.8. IMA prohibits staff members from acceptingsubstantial gifts or amenities from any entity thatsupports IMA activities, provides services to IMA, isseeking IMA business, or that may have an interestin influencing IMA programs or policies.IMA endorsement of another organizations programdoes not imply and may not be represented as IMAendorsement of that organization or company or anyof its other programs or products.9. Use of IMA name and Logo on programs officiallyendorsed by the IMA: a) All permission given toothers to use the IMA name and /or logo will bedocumented in a written grant of permission thatshall include appropriate restriction and controls onthe manner and scope of such use. b) The IMA nameand logo may not be used with any form ofadvertising of a commercial product or service or onnon IMA education materials that might imply IMAsponsorship.10. Use of supporting organizations Name and Logoon IMA materials. a) Acknowledgment of thepartnership industry and any other organizations ispermitted on the publication, medical journal,professional periodical or IMA website. Special caremust be exercised in the recognition language andplacement to avoid any implied IMA endorsementof the sponsor or product. b) The form ofacknowledgment of partnership industry and anyother organizations requires the review andapproval of the IMA Council /CWC.11. IMA shall form a committee for selection of theindustry and any other organization. For selection atransparent, fair and competitive process shall beadopted and short listings of the interested industry/organization the following criteria’s shall beconsidered. a) Competency b) Expertise c) Evidenceof the similar/ related work d) One of the objectivesof the said industry / organization is in consonancewith IMA mission.

OTHERS:1. The partnership with the industry and otherorganization can be terminated any time withoutassigning any reason.2. Periodic review of the policy shall be carriedout by the IMA HQ Secretariat and same shall beinformed to the IMA CWC/Council.

Eligibility criterion for the participating institutions/organisations/Establishments:

1. Conducting educational programs forphysicians /health professionals regularly for last 2years2. A program which do not advocateunscientific modalities of diagnosis or therapy.3. Develop/conduct activities that have validcontent promoting recommendations, treatment ormanner of practicing medicine that are withindefinition of CME.4. Having objectives of the organisation alignedwith that of IMA5. Commercial organisations having CSRprogram aligned with objective of medical educationenhancement independent of commercial activities.6. Should have a registered office in Indiahaving a legal identity as per applicable law of thestate.7.Terms & Conditions

1. Institution /organisation should have adefined mission statement towards outcome andgoals for CME2. Institution /organisation should define themethodology & formats to be used for CME activities3. Institution /organisation promotesimprovement in healthcare education and notproprietary interest of the organisation4. Institution /organisation should have adefined policy for review and modify the contentsof the module(s) as per need of the changingenvironment and advancement in technology andcare5. Institution /organisation should be able todemonstrate improvement in performance oflearners6. Institution /organisation should have anappropriate policy with regard to commercial supportto ensure commercial independence in :a. Identification of CME needsb. Objectives of sessionc. Selection and presentation of the contentsd. Evaluation of the activitye. Selection of the persons and organisers thatwill be in position to control the contentsf. Collaboration with funding agencies(sponsor) if any7. Institution /organisation should have tofollow IMA policy with regard to use of IMA logo8. IMA credit hours shall be awarded by IMAHQs, For one hour of activity one credit hour shall

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be given. For activities related to mental health,pharmacovigilance , point 0.5 extra credit hours willbe given for every 1 hour of CME

IMA feeFor NON IMA for profit organisation

10% of the program revenue generated plus taxesor Rs.one crore plus taxes

For IMA state /branchesRs. 50/ per registered participants

For NGO/Not for profit/GovernmentorganisationsBarter basis or free based on case to case discussions

Note: IMA fee to be paid 50% at time of applying

and 50% after CME is over on same day.

IMA policy for use of IMA LOGO1. IMA logo on backdrop and all otherpromotional material2. No endorsement or promotion of any brandfor product or service during the session3. Final program to be discussed and finalisedjointly4. IMA president /Hon. Secretary Gen on thestage during inauguration if any5. IMA slide to be shown during every sessionof the conference/ workshop6. No violation of MCI or pharma code ofconducts during the conference7. No financial liability to IMA

1 Dr. Anil Gupta2 Dr.A K Bhalla3 Dr.A P Dubey*4 Dr.A P Misra5 Dr.A K Israni6 Dr.Achal Dave (Physician)7 Dr.Adhao Ashok8 Dr.Agarwal S.S9 Dr.Ajay Gamphir10 Dr.Ajay Kumar (Gastro)11 Dr.Akhil Saxena12 Dr.Alok Bhandari13 Dr.Amarjeet Singh Popli14 Dr.Anil Agarwal (G B Pant)15 Dr.Anil Aggarwal16 Dr.Anil Goyal (Uro)17 Dr.Anup Mohta18 Dr.Arit Sharma19 Dr.Arulrhaj S20 Dr.Arun Agarwal21 Dr.Arun Gupta (Pead)22 Dr.Ashim Das23 Dr.Ashok Grover24 Dr.Ashok Grover (Physician)25 Dr.Ashok Khurana*26 Dr.Ashok Kumar Aggarwal27 Dr.Ashok Rai28 Dr.Ashok Seth29 Dr.Avneesh30 Dr.Avtar Krishan31 Dr.B B Gupta32 Dr.B.D. Bhatia33 Dr.Badri Datta34 Dr.Bakul Jayant Parekh35 Dr.Bhasker Shenoy36 Dr.Bhupendra Ahuja37 Dr.Bhupendra Chaudhary

LIST OF HONORARY IMA PROFESSORS 2017

38 Dr.Binay Karak39 Dr.Brig M.S.V. Raju40 Dr.C G Bahuleyan41 Dr.C.Amarnath42 Dr.Chhaparwal Bharat C.43 Dr.D S Rana44 Dr.Datta Ramesh Kumar45 Dr.Deepak Singla*46 Dr.Deepu Banerjee47 Dr.Dilip Kumar Dutta48 Dr. Deepak Haldipur49 Dr.Mangesh Tiwaskar50 Dr.E Pari51 Dr.G V Premkumar52 Dr.Ganesh K Mani53 Dr.Gautam Saha54 Dr.George P V55 Dr.Girish Tyagi56 Dr.H.L. Nag57 Dr.Harendra kr Gupta58 Dr.Harish Grover59 Dr.Harit Chaturvedi60 Dr.Harsh Mahajan61 Dr.Hemant Kumar62 Dr.Hrishikesh D Pai63 Dr.J PS Sawhney64 Dr.jai Bhagwan65 Dr.Jayachandra Reddy Reddivari66 Dr.Jaykar Thomas67 Dr.K K Aggarwal68 Dr.K K Kalra69 Dr.K S Santhan Kumar70 Dr.K.M. Venkatagiri71 Dr.Ketan Desai72 Dr.Ketan K Mehta73 Dr.Krishna Seshdari74 Dr.Kumar Ajay

75 Dr.L D Sota76 Dr.M B Bharathi77 Dr.M M Mehdiratta78 Dr.M R Surwade*79 Dr.M. Abbas80 Dr.M.S. Hiremath81 Dr.Mahendra Kumar Taneja82 Dr.Mangesh Gulwade83 Dr.Manoj Kandoi84 Dr.Misra S N85 Dr.Mohan Prasad86 Dr.Mrinal Kanti Das87 Dr.Mrs Anita Arora88 Dr.Mrs Anju Gambhir89 Dr.Mrs Arati Verma90 Dr.Mrs Divya91 Dr.Mrs Maninder Ahuja92 Dr.Mrs Meenu Walia93 Dr.Mrs Neelam Gupta (Garg)94 Dr.Mrs Savita Puri95 Dr.Mrs Sharda Jain96 Dr.Mrs VN Acharya97 Dr.Mrs. E Prabhavathi98 Dr.Mrs.D Padmasree99 Dr.Munindra Srivastava100 Dr.N P Singh101 Dr.N V Kamat102 Dr.N C Mohanty103 Dr.Namrata Sharma104 Dr.Narendra Saini105 Dr.Naresh Chawla106 Dr.Narottam Puri107 Dr.Naveen Chitkara*108 Dr.Neelam Lekhi109 Dr.O P Sharma110 Dr.O P Yadava111 Dr.P.S.M Chandran

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112 Dr.ParameshvaraVishwanathapura

113 Dr.Parvin Gulati114 Dr.Patel Jitendra B115 Dr.Pawan Kapoor*116 Dr.Pillai A Marthanda117 Dr.Prabhu Dayal Pahwa118 Dr.Prakash Dharam119 Dr.Prakash Gera120 Dr.Pramod Jog121 Dr.Prashant Kelkar*122 Dr.Praveen Bhatia123 Dr.Praveer Aggarwal124 Dr.Premanidhi Panda125 Dr.Pritam Gupta126 Dr.R K Singhal127 Dr.R Kasi Visweswaran128 Dr.R N Tandon129 Dr.R P S Arora130 Dr.R K Sharma131 Dr.Rai D R132 Dr.Raj Shekhar Yadav133 Dr.Rajeev Batnagar134 Dr.Rajeev Dhir135 Dr.Rajesh Sobti136 Dr.Rajesh Swarankar137 Dr.Rajesh Upadhyaya*138 Dr.Rajinder Singh139 Dr.Rajiv Ranjan Prasad140 Dr.Rajiv Sood141 Dr.Ram Y. Prabho142 Dr.Ramachandrappa G.K.143 Dr.Rashma Pai144 Dr.Ravi Ramalingam145 Dr.Ravi Wankhedekar146 Dr.Ravindra B Sabnis147 Dr.Roy Sudipto148 Dr.S P Singh149 Dr.S.K.E.Appa Rao150 Dr.S.N. Gaur151 Dr.Sachin B. Jamma152 Dr.Samaram Goparaju153 Dr.Sandeep Aggarwal154 Dr.Sandeep Budhiraja*155 Dr.Sandip Kr Ray156 Dr.Sanjay Jain

157 Dr.Sanjay Tyagi (G B Pant)158 Dr.Satish sharma159 Dr.Satish Tyagi160 Dr.Sheetal Shanti Kr Gandhi161 Dr.Shekhar Aggarwal162 Dr.Shevda Rane163 Dr.Shiva Kant Misra164 Dr.Shyamanta Barua165 Dr.Singh Ram Janma166 Dr.Sobti Jagdish C167 Dr.Sonia Malik168 Dr.Sudesh Ratan169 Dr.Sunil (Lt. Col.) Verma170 Dr.Sunil Khaterapal*171 Dr.Sunita Dubey*172 Dr.Surya K Singh173 Dr.Suryakant174 Dr.T.Subramanyeshwar Rao175 Dr.Tarun Gupta176 Dr.Upendre Gami177 Dr.V B Borade178 Dr.V K Ahuja179 Dr.V K Gupta180 Dr.V K Monga181 Dr.V.K. Goel182 Dr.V.P. Singh183 Dr.Vaijayanti Sheetal Gandhi184 Dr.Vijay Aggarwal185 Dr.Vijay K. Malhotra186 Dr.Vijayakumar K187 Dr.Vikas Sharma188 Dr.Vinay Aggarwal189 Dr.Vinita Kumar Jaggi190 Dr.Vinod Khetarpal191 Dr.Vivek Verma*192 Dr.Y P Bhatia*193 Dr.Y P Munjal194 Dr.Y Ravinder Rao195 Dr.Yogesh Jhamb

*Honorary Professorship is provisional; it is requested to send IMAmembership number at the earliestfor regular registration.

HONARARY IMA PROFESSORSHIP ISVALID FOR THREE YEARS EFFECTIVEFROM 5TH September 2017

Agenda Item No. B-46Branch Constitutions for Approval

The following Branch Constitutions have been recieved for approval:1. Hoshiarpur Branch, under Punjab State Branch, IMA2. Bast Branch, under, U.P. State Branch, IMA3. Kodungallur Branch, under Kerala State Branch, IMA

LIST OF HONY. IMA FALCULTY 20171. Dr. Anil Kr Gupta2. Dr. Arun Gupta3. Dr. Arun Garg4. Dr. Inder Mohan Rustagi5. Dr. J Milton Alfred6. Dr. Satish Rameshwar Goyal7. Dr.Supendra Nath

Sarbadhikari8. Dr.Neeraj Murkey9. Dr. U Suryanarayana Murthy10. Dr. Vineet Banga11. Dr.Harivansh Kr Arora

HONARARY IMA FACULTY POSITION IS VALID FOR THREEYEARS EFFECTIVE FROM 5THSeptember 2017

Expectations from Honorary IMAProfessors and Faculty are:

1. Honorary IMA Professors willbe brand ambassador of IMAand a role model to the socy.

2. Honorary IMA Professorsshall propagate IMA activities

3. Honorary IMA Professorsshould participate in allNational IMA programsaligned with NationalHealth Programs

4. Honorary IMA Professorsshall follow IMA ethics policy

5. Honorary IMA Professorsshould conduct/ participateIMA CMEs

6. Honorary IMA Professorsshould be facilitating formulation of national healthguidelines

7. Honorary IMA Professorsshould promote research inprivate sector

8. Honorary IMA Professorsshould contribute in IMApublications

Let's work together for transforming healthcare in India

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Agenda Item No. B-50Resolutions brought forward by various Wings / Departments of the Association



Resolutions brought forward by Local Branches

None

Resolutions brought forward by Individual Members

None


Resolutions brought forward by State / Terr. Branches

1. Resolution passed by Tamil Nadu State Branch, IMA: Based on the complaint received from IMAVirudunagar branch, Dr.A.Selvarajan was suspended from IMA Virudhunagar for misappropriation of fundduring his period as Secretary at IMA Virudhunagar. Earlier, IMA TNSB was enquired the matter by a specialcommittee, appointed by the State PresidentlMA TNSB, on 0632016 and asked Dr.A.Selvarajan for theexpenditure details and receipts of various expenditure what he said to have spent money for variousprogrammes and events, but there was no proper reply from Dr.A.Selvarajan. During enquiry, he has notproduced any Receipt for the expenditure. Meantime, IMA Virudhunagar branch had suspendedDr.A.Selvarajan for misappropriation of fund w.e.f . 13032016. Hence, it was decided and passed resolutionto suspend Dr.A.Selvarajan from IMA TNSB and the activities of IMA Tamilnadu vide the resolution passedduring 286th State Council Meeting held at Thanjavur on 2032016 till the National IMA Headquartersdecides on the matter.

2. Resolution passed by Dhule Branch, IMA: " To have the changeover of office bearers of all local &state branches in sync with HQ. IMA foundation day is 28 th Dec. HQ change is on that day. While manybranches change at various dates. To have better coordination & synchronized work the change of allbranches should be 1 month prior to HQ change. "


Any other matter with the permission of the Chair

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