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IMA COCHIN NEWS
Solidarity Wins
Kerala Healthcare Service Persons & Healthcare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence & Damage to Property) Act 2012 passed by Kerala Legislative Assembly
20th July 2012 - The red letter day for IMA and medical fraternity in Kerala;
Hospital Protection Bill was passed by Kerala Assembly on this day. IMA
had been relentlessly fighting for the Law to protect hospitals and doctors.
Leaders of IMA, headed by successive presidents and secretaries for last
7-8 years, successfully led multi pronged actions which culminated in the
passage of Hospital Protection Law by Kerala Assembly. Hats off to all past
presidents, secretaries and other leaders of IMA kerala State Branch who
A landmark achievement for IMA and medical profession in Kerala
organised series of agitations, political lobbying, building support groups
to put pressure on each and every member of assembly and each and every
minister. It was indeed a herculien task which IMA won at last.
Let us stand united behind the banner of IMA Kerala State Branch for
many such historical fights to come.
Jai IMA!
Reception to IMA State Office Bearers
Issue 107
August
2012
ADULT & GENERAL PSYCHIATRY
Practice of Psychiatry as a Medical Discipline
General Psychiatric Disorders (without excitement)
Neuropsychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine
CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY(CGC)
Multidisciplinary Guidance for Children with Special Needs
Centre for Developmental Disorders (SDD)
Centre for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Assessments, School Mental Health
ADULT & GENERAL NEUROLOGY
Headache & Related Disorders
Cerebrovascular Diseases
Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders Clinic
Epilepsy Clinic
Sleep Disorders etc.
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
EEG, EMG, BAER, VEP
It was the most appropriate occasion, five days after the hospital
protection bill became Law. A warm reception was organised by
IMA Cochin branch for the State leaders on July 25th at IMA House,
Cochin. Dr. Abraham Varghese, President Cochin branch welcomed
the guests. Dr. Rajagopalan Nair, the State President spoke of the
various issues faced by the Association and also highlighted the major
achievement of IMA - the Hospital Protection Law. He also inaugurated
the Cochin chapter of the Hospital Board of India. Dr. A.V. Babu,
Dr. Vijaykumar, Dr. P.V. George, Dr. Marthanda Pillai and Dr. M.E.
Sugathan spoke on the occasion. Dr. Kamarudeen, the Organising
Chairman of State Conference 2012 explained the initiatives taken by
Pattambi branch.
About 40 leaders including past state presidents & branch leaders
attended the function. Dr Varghese Cherian, Secretary, Cochin branch
proposed the vote of thanks.
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Three of our members Dr. Junaid Rahman (Superintendent, Gen. Hospital), Dr. Sachidananda Kamath (Best
Doctor award winner) and Dr. Sudhindran (Liver transplant surgeon, AIMS) were felicitated by IMA Cochin
Branch in recognition of their outstanding achievements and relentless pursuit in service to the society.
Election of IMA Cochin
office bearers for 2012-13
The election of office bearers of the Cochin
IMA for the IMA year 2012-13 will be held
on 19th September, 2012 (Wednesday) at
8.00 pm. Valid voters list is available in
IMA office.
All life members are eligible to vote.
The annual members who have cleared
their outstanding dues as on 30th June
2012 are also eligible to vote. The
Executive Committee has appointed Dr. K.
Narayanan Kutty and Dr. M. Venugopal as
the Returning Officers.
Dr. Varghese Cherian, Secretary
PRESIDENT
Dr. Abraham Varghese
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Kalamassery, Cochin 682 033
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ONAM SADYA
IMA Cochin celebrates Onam
with “ONAM SADYA”
at 12. 30 pm on Sunday, Aug 26th.
Rs. 50/- per head (below 5 yrs free).
You are also invted for a session on Essentials
of public speaking for professionals, with
special emphasis on how to correct common
regional errors in English language by Dr. Rajeev
Jayadevan MD, MRCP, Sunrise Hospital on
Sunday, 26th at 1.30 pm at IMA House.
All members with their families are
welcome. Please confirm your
participation to
Mr. Hari 92495 78466.
Hon. Secretary
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Date
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AUGUST CME
: 22 August 2012, Wednesday
: 8.00 pm
Venue : IMA House
CASE PRESENTATIONS
A tale of a vanishing Pituitary Tumor
Dr. Tom babu, Silver Line Hospital, Kochi
Ovarian Cysts and fertility outcome, a case
Dr. Mathangi Anand
Vijayalakshmi Medical Center, Kochi
Treat migraine, but don’t forget the eyes
Dr. Sandhya, Consultant, Medical retina &
Uvea dept., Giridhar Eye Hospital, Kochi
“Hide and Seek” Pregnancy
Dr. Fessy Louis T.
Consultant in Gynaecology, CIMAR Cochin
Muscle munching bones
Dr. Binu P.
Dept. of Endocrinology, AIMS, Kochi
Meeting Sponsored by
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From
Editor’s Desk
What should the
Hospital Protection Law
mean to medical fraternity?
Needless to say the passage of Hospital
Protection Bill has come as a great relief to
us. Our profession had been waiting so long
for such a Law.
What should the Law mean to medical
profession? How should we reciprocate
to the society? Lawmakers and people
expect a proactive role from Doctors and
other hospital staff. This Law shouldn’t
mean that we will remain protected always
and everywhere. Society expects doctors to
show empathy and compassion to patients
and their relatives. It also wants us to be
more communicative and listening.
All of us know that 95% of hospital
attacks are not due to fault of doctors
and hospitals. What about the remaining
5%, onus of which falls on Docotrs and
hospital staff. We should be more proactive
to correct that 10%. If lawmakers and
society are ready to protect us, we should be
ready to respect the sentiments of patients
and relatives as well.
IMA expects Doctors and hospitals to
make efforts to conduct in-house auditing
in incidents where we go wrong, so that
such wrongs are not repeated ever.
Dr. V.D. Pradeep Kumar
Editor, Megaphone
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Dear members,
Kudos to our IMA Kerala state leaders and members who fought
tooth and nail for almost a decade to get ‘The Hospital Protection Bill’
passed and that too without any amendments. Now that we have a law
to our advantage it’s also time to reflect on the future of our medical
professionalism. In the last 20 years the expectations of the public has
soared, and they have become less tolerant of poor medical practice.
They are aware that our standards are critical to achieve a good outcome
and ensure a safe and satisfactory process of care. The future of medical
professionalism is still largely in our own hands. If we are prepared to
make the new professionalism work for the public then the public will
reciprocate with their trust and will willingly support us. Our attempt
should be to ensure that our professionalism more than this new law to
deter any hospital attacks in future.
Dr. Abraham Varghese
Dr. Varghese Cherian
President
Secretary
Last month CME
Dr. Bobby Varkey Maramattom, Consultant Interventional Neurologist
& HOD, Lourdes Hospital spoke on “Time is BRAIN, every minute Counts !”
IMA DISTRICT FEST 2012
23 September 2012, Ima House, Cochin
Organised by IMA Cochin
PROGRAMME
8.30 am Registration
9.00 - 4.00 pm CME
5.00 - 8.00 pm Cultural Event
7 pm onwards Dinner
REGISTRATION FEE
IMA members
Rs.500/-
Family members
Rs.400/-
Children below 10 yrs free)
PGs, House Surgeons
Rs.400/-
Medical students
Breakfast, lunch, banquet included.
One free drink with each registration.
MEDICAL CAMPS
IMA Joining hands with Police : IMA Cochin
in association with Palarivattom Model Police Station
and Vasan eye Hospital organised a medical camp at
Raja Rajeshwari Temple Hall, Palarivattom on July 29th,
Sunday. Capt. Raju, film actor inaugurated the camp in a
function which was presided by the Deputy Commissioner
of Police, Mr. T. Gopalakrishna Pillai. Dr. Abraham Varghese,
President, IMA Cochin branch offered felicitations. About 300 patients were examined
and free medicines were distributed.
Medical camp for Journalists : IMA Cochin organised a Medical camp for the
members of Ernakulam Press Club on 15th July at General Hospital Conference Hall.
PWD Minister Mr. V.K. Ibrahim Kunju inaugurated the medical camp in a meeting
presided by Dr. Abraham Varghese, President, IMA Cochin. Dr. V.P. Kuriyipe, Past IMA
President, Mr. Abdullakutty, President, Press Club, Mr. Sajivan, Secretary, Press Club &
Mr. Sadasivan, Jt. Secretary also spoke on the occasion. Dr. Junaid Rahman, Supt, General
Hospital was honoured on the occasion by presenting a memento & Ponnada.
OTHER Medical camps : 14th July - At Maradu; 15th July - IMA in association with
Gen. Hospital Ekm; 29th July - IMA & WIMA at Mulavukadu; 29th July-IMA, Gen. Hospital Ekm
& Bharat Petroleum at Puthencruz;1st August-IMA in association with Vasan Eye Care Hospital
- Eye Camp for Seamen of Cochin. Dr. R. Mahadevan, Convenor
Congratulations
Dr. George P. Abraham, Consultant Urologist & Transplant Surgeon,
was honoured with the prestigious Bharat Chikitsak Ratan Award in
recognition of his contribution to the field of Urology. He received the award
at a glittering function held in New Delhi.
Dr. George P. abraham and his team also
won the American Urological Association
Best of Bests award 2012 for the groundbreaking surgery
Laparoscopic renal transplntation. The team received the award at
the meeting of American Urology Assocaition held in Atlanta, USA.
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Dr. Sugu Varghese of Cochin IMA was elected as the Hon. Secretary of
Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists National South Zone, during the election
conducted at South Zone Conference, Coimbatore.
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On the Wings
Varma in Burma
Then we came to the bridge on the river
Kanjeeva. The iron bridge (looking like the old
Kallai Bridge, only longer) was painted white for the first
half and yellow for the next. And that was our border with
Myanmar. We had been driving from Imphal, one hundred
and ten kilometres away and had entry permits endorsed by
the military of both countries. The check-post at Kanjeeva
was a perfunctory affair. When the officious and obese
chief there came to know that I was a doctor, he wanted
me to examine and prescribe medicine for his gouty
joints. (Please do not ask me what I prescribed; I am an
Ophthalmologist, you know) Afterwards he affixed all proper
seals to our papers and graciously sent us on our way.
We drove off, on the right side of the road to the border town of Tamu. The road was excellent, having been
built by our Border Roads Organisation. The scenery was green with occasional houses built in stilts, under
which rested the domestic animals, mostly pigs and goats. Men wore pyjama like trousers and shirts and
women lungi like sarong and blouse.
Soon we reached the Ounamai Pagoda, which they say is the second oldest one in the world. There was nothing
impressive about it. There was a monastery attached to it and the little boy monks were quite cute to watch.
With shaven heads and saffron robes they were hard at play like boys anywhere. We moved on to Tamu. It was
the last day of their New Year festivities (same day as our Vishu) and the Water Festival was on. People threw
water on everyone else and had a jolly good time. Fortunately the water was not coloured like in our Holi.
Anyway we kept our window glasses up and it stood us in good stead for very many times. Whereever we went
there was music and dancing and water pistols with ‘cheth’ boys wrooming on modified bikes. We went to the
market place and things were cheap! One Indian Rupee was equivalent to fifteen kyat. The women in our
group went berserk. Imagine getting a pair of good leather shoes for 150 rupees! There were so many types
of fruits and vegetables I had never seen (or heard about) before. What I liked most was delicious miniature
oranges you could put in your mouth whole. (The pips were normal sized, though).
When we went for lunch at a Chinese hotel, the waiter had no idea what vegetarian meant. So I had to
take a paper and pencil and draw pictures of carrot, cabbage etc. much to the amusement of my small
grandson. We ended up eating fried rice, noodles and potato finger chips. The oil was horrible tasting.
And surprise, surprise! The music was fast Hindi film songs.
We were supposed to move out of Myanmar before sunset and sunset was at 4 pm (IST.) So after a bit more
shopping we started back reluctantly.
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