June at Bhopal. This guidebook will further get translated into a
teaching module for pediatricians and all other healthcare providers
from Govt and private sector.
42 – 46% under-five mortality in our country is
due to malnutrition which was endorsed and slammed as "national
shame" by our Hon’ble PM. To deal and address this issue, IAP under
then presidency of Dr. Deepak Ugra, had initiated to make consensus
management guidelines on severe acute malnutrition – SAM in 2010,
but unfortunately were caught in a web of controversies and were in
limbo. I am indeed very happy to inform you that I, with the help of
Drs. HPS Sachdev, Panna Choudhury, Mrudula Phadke and Samir Dalwai
could resolve them, reached to a consensus and SAM guidelines are
ultimately ready.
On the line of monumental success of "Color Atlas
of Pediatrics" and "Textbook of Pediatrics", IAP Infectious Disease
(ID) Chapter is coming out with "Textbook of PID" and "Color Atlas
of PID" which should be released at PEDICON 2013. PEDICON 2013 – the
golden embarkment of IAP is going to be inaugurated by the Golden
Man of India H.E. Dr. A.P.J. Kalam. It was a dream come true for me
when H.E. Kalam Saab interacted with me, CP Bansal, Sailesh Gupta
and Jaydeep Choudhury for almost half an hour at his bungalow on
various child health related issues. Other feathers in the cap of
IAP and PEDICON 2013 are – Hon’ble. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dy
Chairman Planning Commission is going to deliver a special "Swarn
Jayanti Oration" at the PEDICON and Hon’ble Minister Kapil Sibal
will release a special IAP stamp to commemorate IAP’s 50 years.
Friends, IAP had forged an alliance with GOI at
Gurgaon PEDICON 2012 in the form of PPP. To give shape to "Mission
MDG4 – Vision IAP" we endeavored a consultative meet of Govt.
officials from MOHFW and senior KOLs of IAP which was highly
acclaimed by one and all present as a joint step put forward by IAP
in child health related issues. Though it is Vision IAP, I must say
it is passion for the incoming president Dr. CP Bansal.
Lastly, I am delighted to inform you that "India
National Asthma Congress" is going to be held from 8