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Meetings of various IAP Committees were held with the
President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Swati Y. Bhave in the months
of February and March 2000. A summary of deliberations of these meetings
is given below.
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IAP/AAP Meeting : A meeting was held on
February 4, 2000 between the IAP representatives (President and
President-Elect) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) representatives
(President’s Representative and Executive Director). Many collaborative
plans between the two associations were discussed. Important amongst these
are Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) mannequins for IAP PALS courses
and compilation of a list of centers in USA, which will take IAP members
for training in USA. This list is to be kept in the IAP office to be sent
to interested members. The AAP has started office-based research for its
practicing pediatricians. A similar model is to be tried for IAP members.
This model will be put for ratification before the Executive Board (EB)
members. After approval by the EB members, other plans will be notified.
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Adolescent Committee: A meeting was held on
March 4, 2000 with the Convener of Adolescent Pediatrics Chapter (formally
Adolescent Committee) and UNICEF Representative to finalize the plan of
action for IAP Year for Adolescent Care. It was decided that a meeting of
the IAP National Task Force on Adolescent Care would be held in Mumbai on
21st April 2000 followed by a Trainers’ Workshop on 22nd and 23rd April
2000. Support for this activity was to be provided by the Government of
India (GOI), Family Welfare Department under Reproductive and Child Health
(RCH) program. The state branches of IAP were to be requested to send one
office bearer (President or Secretary) to participate in this workshop.
One member from each state who had done work in adolescent care was also
to be selected to participate. Plans were to be made for conducting
workshops in every state and district depending upon available resources.
All this would be executed through various IAP Branches and the plan of
action would be circulated to all IAP Branches.
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IAP Committee for Conference Guide-lines: A
committee had been formed to bring out a book on conference guidelines.
This Committee for Conference Guidelines met on March 5, 2000. Suggestions
for framing conference guidelines had been invited from members of
organizing committees of past national conferences, past office bearers,
past executive board members and past presidents. Based on these, a draft
was prepared. The draft will be circulated to all executive board members
for finalization.
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IAP Committee for Child Abuse, Neglect and Child
Labor (CANCL): This committee met on March 8, 2000. Plans were made
for state level CANCL committees and work for the year 2000 was chalked
out. The IAP CANCL committee will be actively involved in the National
Task Force on Child at Risk.
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Meeting with the Secretary Family Welfare GOI,
Delhi: This meeting on 9th March 2000 along with the office bearers of
CANCL committee was very fruitful. IAP is honored that the Secretary, Mr.
A.R. Nanda has accepted to be Co-chairperson of IAP Task Force on
Adolescent Care. This will give a great boost to our program.
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IAP Committee for Website: This committee
discussed the IAP Website on March 13-14, 2000. A skeleton of the IAP
Website has been launched in January 2000. Proposals from professionals
are being considered to make it interactive with online chat rooms,
bulletin boards, parent education link, etc. Details will be submitted to
the EB members.
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IAP Committee for Code of Ethics: As per the
directive of the Executive Board, a Committee for "Code of Ethics for
IAP Elections" has been formed. Suggestions have been invited from
all of them by post. Members will soon meet and formalize guidelines for
future IAP elections. These will be submitted to the EB members for
approval. These guidelines will be given to every candidate when they file
the election nomination papers.
Swati Y. Bhave,
President IAP,
E-mail: [email protected],
G.S. Hathi,
Honorary Secretary General
IAP,
E-mail: [email protected],
Kailash Darshan, Kennedy Bridge,
Mumbai 400 007, India.
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