PEDIA MEDIA
EDITORIAL
Vol #
1
May
30 2006
The
bliss of poverty
I
have seen several rich people living plastic lives.
Their
smiles are plastic,their complexion is plastic and their thought
process is plastic.
I
have seen several poor people with a rich,exuberant,virile and
vibrant body language and they make you feel despondent indeed.
In
one of my trips to the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, we were in a
camel cart and the moustache rimmed smile of the farmer was almost
disparaging. We eat rotis made of ‘jaun’ and we do
IT
great is what he smirked.And his eskance look at the
ladies in our group was mischievous for them and almost castrating
for us males.
I
washed my humiliation in yet more deodorant.
The
well heeled have been brought up and nurtured in an atmosphere of
fear.Fear of a delayed cry,fear of the quality of water entering the
mouth,fear of the environment.
Fear
the land,fear the water and fear the sky. The panchtatva
itself is untrustworthy.
Now
how do we expect strong men and women to be born and brought up in
an atmosphere of fear and suspicion ?
What
is worse, we start fearing the loss of what is not yet our own.
We
build castles in the air, presume them to be our own and then build
a moat of protection around it.Too bad that the moat itself is made
of fear !
Geet
Sethi, billiards player of international repute,has in a book of his
own talked about an event in which a prominent player was losing due
to fear.He had,for the first time , been offered a huge
sponsorship.The player promised himself an impressive mansion out of
the prize money and at the crucial moment of decision dithered due
to a feared loss of what was not yet his own.Only when he rid
himself of this thought
could he play elegantly.
The
poor has never planned his day beyond the next moment and has no
strings attached that may snap under him.
There
is no stress stronger than that of poverty yet he has learnt to
master it.
I
watch them when they are getting back home in a tractor after a day
of hard manual labour. The women are in bright colours, the men are
smoking lustily and……….they are singing merrily !
Tell
me one of us who gets back home after a day of labour spent in
airconditioned comfort driving back home SMILING !.
Try
and get richer, baby !
ASHUTOSH JINDAL
EDITOR
I
A P is an apolitical organization hence we shall make no comments on
the issue of reservations in institutes of higher learning and in jobs
in the private sector.Abhorrent as it seems to be,let each of you
judge the matter in your own wisdom and act accordingly.
Dear Friend of the
Academy
We are happy
indeed to bring out the promised third issue of Pedia Media and to do
so in time.
We had
announced to run Pedia Media as a monthly. The last one came on April
22 2006.Here we go !
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I
A P JAIPUR’S WEBSITE
–
We had declared in the last issue our keenness to
commission a website for our local Chapter.Your good wishes and
healthy inputs have borne fruit and here it comes
As
of now, it is rudimentary and only partly accurate.Refinement,updation
and ensuring currency of content takes time and we hope you shall
allot us some time to do so. We have engaged M/S Technoedge,Jaipur for the Site development and maintenance.
This
process is sure to get greatly facilitated through your active
involvement.If you can not contribute much by means of content,please
do us the favour of giving feedback and comments .
The likely scope and advantage of the site may be :
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Pedia
Media shall run its electronic version on this Site
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Provide
you news and activities fresh from oven
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A
platform for liaison with I A P Mumbai
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Till
date only Bangalore,Kerala,Chattisgarh and Surat have their sites.Not
to be discourteous,but they seem to be rather laid back in updation.If
not first, let us atleast be in the first few.
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A
platform for inviting advertisements from potential organizations
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To
get you latest information from the Web. Our team shall try and glean
matter from the Web and post it for your convenience
I
A P Jaipur Secretariat is planning to engage a full time computer data
entry operator and web professional to keep the Site as current and
alive as we may.
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STATE
/ LOCAL CHAPTER OF IAP – CMEG AT JAIPUR AND A WORKSHOP ON COMPUTERS
IN OFFICE PRACTICE:
As
an extension of the project of a Site, we have been in contact with
Dr C P Bansal
of Gwalior, Secretary of the Computer and Medical Electronics Group (
CMEG ) of the I A P and we have come to a level of :
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establishing
a State Chapter of the CMEG at Jaipur
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Dr
Naveen Thacker,President Elect I A P is a forerunner in this field
and we may solicit his presence for the occasion.
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to
organize a CME on Computers in Pediatric Practice
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we
may co invite software vendors to demonstrate their capabilities
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MONTHLY
CLINICAL MEETS:
The
Pediatric Clinics of Jaipur
had their last meeting on 20th of May 2006 at Hotel Clarks
Amer and was organized by GSK Bio ( Vaccine Division ) . The topic was
Vaccines of the Future and Safety Issues.The guest speaker was Dr
Shyam Kukreja from Delhi.Dr Kukreja is the National Convenor for
the I A P Committee on Immunization and is a Senior Pediatric
Consultant at Max Hospitals, New Delhi.Pneumococcal,Rotavirus,Td,Tdap
and the Chinese Japanese Encephalitis B vaccines were discussed and
were rounded off by a vibrant panel discussion.
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FUTURE
MEETINGS:
The
next one is on 17th of June 2006. VHB Life Sciences are
arranging for it and the topic is Chronic Hepatitis with Especial
Emphasis on Hepatitis B ,Role of Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin and as
another topic, Varicella disease. We have arranged the country’s
best in speakers for you.Dr S K Yaccha,Professor and Head
,Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology at SGPGI,Lucknow is an
authority in his own right and shall share his pearls of wisdom with
you.He plans getting Case Capsules through which he shall demonstrate
case based protocols to facilitate understanding. We may arrange for a
select small gathering on a first come first served basis for
Metabolic Liver Disease especially Neonatal Cholestasis and Wilson
Disease as a pre CME late afternoon session.
Dr
Raju C Shah,Past President, I A P shall come in from Ahmedabad and
shed light on Varicella.
A
lively Panel Discussion shall be chaired by Dr R K Agrawal from
Udaipur, Past Executive Member to Central I A P.
We
were in contact with Dr Deepak Ugra,Honorary Secretary General,
I
A P Mumbai and Dr Nitin Shah,President, I A P Mumbai for one of
these talks but could not get their time due to their extreme
preoccupation.
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BEST
BRANCH AWARD :
It may please you to know that we are filing in for consideration for I
A P Best Branch award to Central Office,Mumbai.We do hope we shall get
your continued patronage to achieve this goal.
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BOOKS PUBLISHED :
Dr
Yashpaul
and Dr Priya Marwah – Have
published a handy book entitled Ready Reckoner of Adverse Drug
Reaction , Acdema Publishers priced at Rs 100/-It has a nice symptom
wise arrangement of adverse reaction to drugs and is available at
request.
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CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION:
Dr
B S Sharma is going to attend an International Pediatric
Pulmonolgy Conference at
Montreal from July 7-10,2006
Dr
Rajiv Bansal
organized a Conference for parents of Thalassemic children at
SDMH Auditorium on 8th May 2006.He delivered a talk on
Recent Advances in Management of Thalassemia with special emphasis on
Exjade – a new oral iron chelator.
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CME ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE –
DELHI – JULY 2006 :
The
Delhi Chapter of I A P Subspecialty Chapter of Infectious Disease is
holding a CME on its specialty topic.For details please get back
either to the Secretary or to Dr Shyam Kukreja at Delhi.
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SAFE
INJECTION PRACTICES WORKSHOP:
We
have got a sanction for funds and speakers from IAP Mumbai.Sometime
soon we may get the act together.Dr Alok Gupta is a National
Coordinator and we may call upon his experience.
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PARENT
EDUCATION PROGRAMME
:
A
PEP under the Presidential Action Plan 2006 was taken up on 14th
May 2006.Shubham Nursery School in Jawahar Nagar was picked up
selected and our team including the President and Secretary
made a powerpoint presentation on life skills and some 100 families
were present.Johnson and Johnson was instrumental in
facilitating the event.
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I
A P MEMBERSHIP AMOUNT BEING DOUBLED SOON :
It
saddens us to note that out of the some 300 Pediatricians in Jaipur,
we have only some 130 on our rolls. This may translate to under 50 %.
The Executive has proposed a doubling of membership amount as below
and this shall get implemented soon, subject to approval of GBM.Non
members will naturally not find a place in the Members’ Directory.
Life
Member
from Rs 1000/= to Rs
2000/=
Associate Member
from Rs 100/= to
RS 200/=
Ordinary Member
from Rs 60/=
to Rs 100/=
Please
use the attached Membership Form for your own self and disseminate to
non-members. Each member make one !
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WELCOMING
NEWER MEMBERS :
A
total of 17 new members have been inducted in the present tenure. But
we are greedy still ! The new ones since the last issue of Pedia Media
are:
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Dr
Vijay Agrawal
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Dr
Ajay Somani
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Dr
Sona Gupta
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Dr
Anshul Agrawal (Asso Life)
We
extend them all a cordial welcome to our Academy and wish they shall
be as useful to the Academy as they may derive benefit from the
fellowship.Membership Certificates have been issued to most of them
and the remaining may please contact the Secretary.
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PROMOTIONS
AND APPOINTMENTS:
None
reported in this period.
Happy
reading and much more to come next.
Yours in I A P always
Dr Ashutosh Jindal
Secretary
Editor
Pedia Media
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