Dear Members, Seasons Greetings, With unlock 3.0, the people have relaxed, winter is approaching when a new wave is expected. We have seen that summer had no effect on the number of cases. There are six strains of the coronavirus: L strain (original strain in Wuhan), strains S, V, G, GR, and GH. Strain G and its related strains GR and GH are the most common. In North America, the most widespread strain is G ...

Dear Members, Season's Greetings, Since we have seen that during Covid, attacks on doctors, nurses and paramedical staff and police have increased. In Chennai people did not allow cremation of dead body of a doctor and they had beaten ambulance drivers and accompanying doctors. Friends let us tell you that 70% of doctors in the countries are facing violence physically or verbally. We have demanded for a lon ...

Dear Members, Season's Greetings, Friends, we are facing a global pandemic and India is also reeling under the Corona epidemic. These are the testing times for all health care workers of the country and the Indian Medical Association, in it’s various meetings with the Government, has assured that our hospitals and doctors are with Government at this critical juncture and will contribute by all means possibl ...

Dear Members, Season's Greetings,   We congratulate IMA Daman Branch for successfully organised IMA PPS Educative Zonal Seminar at Daman. I was very well attended by IMA members of Daman, Vapi, Valsad, Dadranagar Haveli etc. We also congratulate IMA Palitana Branch for successfully organised CME of IMA GSB CGP at Palitana. Wold epidemiologists and infectologist are doing everything they can do to secur ...

Dear Members, Season's Greetings, We congratulate IMA Gandhidham Branch for successfully organised IMA PPS Educative Zonal Seminar at Gandhidham. It was very well attended by IMA members of Gandhidham-Adipur, Anjar, Bhuj and other IMA branches. As IMA GSB PPS is going to increase the indemnity cover to Rs 1 crore per year from 1st April 2020, we request our members who still not joined PPS, please be a memb ...

Dear Members, Season's Greetings, We congratulate  IMA Himatnagar Branch for successfully organised IMA PPS Educative Zonal Seminar at Himatnagar for the first time. It was very well attended by IMA members of Himatnagar, Idar, Khedbrama, Bhiloda, Modasa and  other IMA branches. As IMA GSB PPS is going to increase stthe indemnity cover to Rs 1 crore per year from 1 April 2020, we request our members who sti ...

Dear Members, Seasons Greetings, Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is one of the major public health problems especially in developing countries where relatively easy availability and higher consumption of antibiotics have led to higher incidence of inappropriate use of antibiotics and greater levels of resistance compared to developed countries. In 2010, India was the world's largest consumer of antibiotics ...

Friends, Wish you very Happy New Year and Prosperous New Year Antibiotics are being consumed by patients, without prescription, leading to Antimicrobial Resistance. In the CWC meeting at Port Blair, IMA has released a poster for public awareness on preventing misuse of antibiotics. Please paste the Poster No 1 in Patient waiting area and Poster No 2 in Doctor's chamber. Let's Stop Misuse of Antibiotics. Won ...

Dear Friends, Dignitaries on the Dias, off the Dias, Respected seniors, Past Presidents, my dear friends and family members. Standing here before an August audience giving my GSB presidential speech is the grandest moment of my life. And the moment that I am most aware of enormity of the responsibility that brings . Medical science as we know is a vital part of human being since the beginning of Civilizatio ...

  Dear Members, Season's Greetings. Violence on doctors and Health Care establishments has touched a new low with the mass lynching of Dr. Deben Dutta on 31st August 2019 in Teova Tea estate in Jorhat, Assam. Indian Medical Association has been bringing to the attention of the Government , media and the people regarding this uncivil trend in our country. 21 states and 1 union territory have enacted a l ...