Importance
should be accorded to family physicians and the nobility of the profession
should be restored
New
Delhi, 03 July 2017:
With this year's theme as 'My Family Doctor', the IMA celebrated Doctor's Day
on 1 July 2017. Among other activities held on this day, the IMA announced
awards under various categories, which would be presented during Centenary
Celebrations of Medical Conferences in India on 23rd and 24th September 2017 at
New Delhi.
The Association announced
Zero Tolerance to unethical practices by medical professionals and or medical
establishments. These include Referral Fee, Cuts, and Commission received
without involving any services.
Offenders can get their names removed from the primary membership of
IMA. There will be no tolerance for targets given to medical specialists
joining hospitals. The IMA will soon come out with a standard appointment
contract between consultant and corporate hospitals.
Speaking about this, Padma Shri
Awardee Dr K K Aggarwal, National President Indian Medical Association (IMA)
and President Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) and Dr RN Tandon – Honorary
Secretary General IMA in a joint statement,
said, "This doctor's day is about celebrating and honoring the tradition
of the family physician. Family physicians looked after all the health
needs of a family, even many generations of a family, regardless of their
specialization. They treated and provided preventive health care to a family as
a whole because they were aware of the family history and served as a link between
the patient and the specialist. The society should be educated on the benefits
of getting treatment through a family doctor. Apart from this, IMA has also
announced many other measures as part of this day."
There should be a uniform
code of medical ethics for medical establishments and doctors. The Association
re-defines medical or surgical consent and that should include not only doctors
or establishment’s competency to handle procedures but also the competency to
handle complications how so ever rare they are.
Adding further, Dr Aggarwal, said, "The IMA does
not support criminal prosecution of doctors in clinical practice. It should be
understood that doctors are not healing angels. The
situation today is that doctors now are being prosecuted in various special
acts for non-professional activities like not wearing apron, not displaying a
defined board or not keeping a copy of PC PNDT Act. Doctors are also
being prosecuted for minor violations of privacy, confidentiality of patient
information and data and violations of minor clauses in surrogacy, IVF and
HIV_AIDS acts. This is not acceptable to the medical profession."
The Association opposes
reduction of NPA in the 7thPay Commission. IMA will also intensify its public
image through 'IMA Thank You' and 'Public Health Awareness Campaigns' using
various advertisement modules. Apart from this, the IMA Accreditation and
Academic Council will be operational from 15th July 2017. Dr K KKalra, ex CEO NABH, has joined IMA as
CEO of the Council.
The
recipients of the IMA awards are as follows: Women Empowerment Award - Dr Jayshree B. Mehta and Dr Soumya
Swaminathan (2016), Dr Rishma Pai (2017): Doctor
of the Decade Award - Dr A Marthanda Pillai and Dr Shashank Joshi (2016),
Dr Randeep Guleria (2017); Life Time
Achievement Award - Dr Vinay Aggarwal (2016), Dr Ved Prakash Mishra (2017);
Doctor of the Year Award - Dr R N
Tandon, Dr Girish Tyagi, Dr R V Asokan, Dr Hrishikesh D Pai, and Dr K K Kalra
(2016), Dr Shiv Kumar Mishra, Dr Bhupender Ahuja, Dr Saumitra Rawat, Dr H P
Saraf, and Dr Mona Desai (2017), Dr Bharti Kashyap; Medical Eminent Teacher Award - Dr Georgi Abraham, Dr C G
Bahuleyan, Dr M C Mishra, and Dr J A Jayalal (2016); and IMA Eminent Nurse Award - Ms Anita Deodhar and Ms Evelyn P Kannan
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