The first NCPID in Kolkata was a grand success and a good beginning for the chapter. This was followed by the other NCPIDs in Delhi (1999), Chennai (2000), Pune (2001), Surat (2002), Agra (2003), Hyderabad (2004), Mumbai (2005), Chennai (2006) and this time (2007) the X NCPID will be held in Bangalore in the great Convention Center of NIMHANS.
The chapter has developed gradually but stedily and today it has a membership strength of 933 who are pediatricians from all over India. Popularity of the chapter has also increased and we can say today that it is one of the most popular subspeciality chapters of IAP. Regular programs with interesting topics in various PEDICONs brought the popularity and acceptability of the chapter to the general pediatricians and members of IAP.
After Surat NCPID 2002, we have started publishing a quarterly journal “Bulletin of IAP Infectious Diseases Chapter”. Dr Ashok Kapse was the Editor in Chief and Dr Parang Mehta of Surat was the Executive Editor. After Dr Kapse Dr P S Patil took over the responsibility of Chief Editorship. As the Secretary of the chapter for 4 years (2002-2005) and Chairperson for last 2 year (2006-2007) I have observed the sincerity and dedication of Dr Parang Mehta in bringing out the journal and maintaining a good standard.
The chapter is holding a Mid Term National Program in every year which was also started in Kolkata in 2003 followed by Ahmedabad (2004), Bangalore (2005), Delhi (2006) and Patna (2007). This Mid-term National CMEP has also received its importance and popularity of this program is increasing day by day. Along with this program we always organize a mid term executive board meeting of the chapter.
Apart from various zonal scientific programs, the chapter had started organising new types of National programs of which “1st National Workshop on Immunization : Childhood and Beyond” and “1st National CME on Rational Use of Antimicrobial Agents” need to be mentioned separately and these were organised in this year (2007) in Kolkata and Ahmedabad respectively with great success. These programs will be continued also in the coming years. Moreover, this is for the 2nd time “National Update on Pediatric Infectious Diseases (NUPID)” was organised in Nagpur. The 1st National Update was organised in Mumbai 2 years back in 2005. Hence we can conclude that the chapter is now the most active subspeciality chapter of IAP academically with the round the year scientific programs in different parts of India.
The chapter had received best subspeciality chapter award in PEDICON 2007 (Mumbai) for its various activities and truly the chapter describe this Award for its various activities.
Apart from the journal, the chapter has started publishing regularly its “Newsletter” twice in a year and “IAP IDC Newsletter” is published in colour from this year. The Newsletter contains various news regarding the chapter’s activity.
1. In 2006 during IX NCPID in Chennai a book entitled “Infectious Diseases in Children and Newer Vaccines” was published as myself its Chief Editor from Jaypee Brothers Medical Publisher, New Delhi.
2. The most important is publication of “IAP Speciality Series on Pediatric Infectious Diseases” during PEDICON 2007, Mumbai.
3.This year another book entitled “Controversies Answered : A Monograph on Vaccinology” was publishedduring 1st National Workshop on Vaccinology – Childhood and Beyond.
All these books are well accepted by the pediatricians.
IAP ID Chapter organizes an oration during its National Conferences (NCPID). It was decided that from this year the name of this oration will be “Dr A Parthasarathy Oration”. Dr A Parthasarathy was the former National President of IAP and one of the Chief Editors of “IAP Text Book of Pediatrics”. He was the Convenor and later on the Chairperson of “IAP Committee on Immunization” . He is also the author of many popular books of pediatrics. To acknowledge his great contribution to IAP, this oration will be named after his name and in this year, oration will be delivered by Dr Thyagarajan, former Vice Chancellor of Chennai University and a great microbiologist.
Previously the chapter was using the logo of IAP but from this year a new logo was made and accepted by the members. The new logo is in use from this year, which also incorporates the logo of IAP in its center.
This year (2007) IAP ID Chapter has already prepared the “Protocol on Pyogenic Meningitis in Children”, which will be published soon. This is the 3rd protocol prepared by IAP ID Chapter after malaria (2005) and enteric fever (2006).
A Program under IAP Action Plan 2007We are grateful to Dr Naveen Thacker, National President, IAP 2007 to plan this program under IAP Action Plan 2007 and his trust on members of IAP ID Chapter like Dr Ritabrata Kundu. Dr Tanu Singhal, Dr Indu Khosla, Dr Nupur Ganguly, Dr Suhas Prabhu, Dr Baldev Prajapati, Dr Rohit Agrawal, Dr Vipin Vasistha, Dr Vijay Yewale and myself to make the course material and the teaching slides. This program, will be held in 60 branches of IAP in different parts of India. I feel it a privilege as I am selected as its National Convenor.
A lot has been done for development and growth of IAP ID chapter but many important works are still left, namely :
Lastly as the present Chairperson of the Chapter I propose to take some issues as the objectives and action plans of the chapter and to continually work with these issues for at least 5 years at a stretch :
Lastly as the present Chairperson of the Chapter I propose to take some issues as the objectives and action plans of the chapter and to continually work with these issues for at least 5 years at a stretch :
1. To bring out uniform protocols and guidelines on :
2. To teach and plead for “Rational investigation practices” to diagnose infectious diseases in children.
3. To develop policies regarding “Rational immunization practices” avoiding all malpractices.
4. To impart knowledge on issues of “Safety and storage of vaccines”.
5. To strengthen strictly “Safe injection practices” I am sure if these policies can be framed up meticulously on strong scientific grounds, IAP Infectious Diseases Chapter will not only do justice to its name and fame but also can serve better for the community and the chapter will flourish in different directions. And most important will be the chapter will have a real meaning.
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