Draft salient decisions taken by the IMA Central Working Committee (Part 3)

Draft salient decisions taken by the IMA Central Working Committee (Part 3) • Crosspathy: The House was informed that the suggestions of IMA to the Inter Ministerial Committee have been accepted by them. • Clinical Establishment Act: The suggestions sent by IMA to the Inter Ministerial Committee have been agreed by them. The House thanked the Additional Secretary, Economic Advisor and Dr Dhamija who were physically present in the meeting who informed the House that the decisions and Minutes of the Inter Ministerial Committee have been incorporated in the Minutes of the meeting of the National Council on Clinical Establishments Act held on 8th September, 2017. The House also requested them to incorporate capping of compensations and penalties under the Act in line with the similar provisions under the Drugs & Cosmetics Act in the CEA rules. • PCPNDT Act: The Addl. Secretary, MoHFW assured that in the next meeting of the Central Supervisory Board, the amendments suggested by IMA are being taken up. • Central Act to tackle violence against medical profession: The Addl. Secretary, MoHFW assured that the Central Act is in the process. • Capping of compensation by medical profession under CPA: The House personally requested the Addl. Secretary (Health) to incorporate provisions in CEA rules so that the compensation related to medical negligence is similar to provisions under the Drugs & Cosmetics Act. • Federation of Medical Associations (FOMA): IMA has the full support of all the stakeholders of FOMA. The members advised that FOMA should meet twice in a year so as to discuss and deliberate on all the current issues of the medical profession. • New IMA Awards: All new IMA Awards proposed by IMA HQs were approved by the House. It was also approved to organize a special Awards ceremonies during the State Leadership meet, CWC meetings and Central Council meetings. • The House approved the IMA decision and action to publish community health-related advertisements published and planned to be published in major dailies in association with relevant stakeholders. The House was informed that 14 community health-related advertisements have been published in Indian Express and 4 advertisements have been published in Hindustan Times with the help of M/s. Omron. • All the public health- and hygiene-related agreements of IMA with companies like Omron, Hygia, and State Bank Credit Cards etc. were reported to the CWC, which approved all of them. • Regarding the issue of non-payment of rent by one of the tenants of IMA HQs. M/s. Arth Business News Channel, the House was informed that the matter is sub judice. • Cuts & Commissions: IMA will not tolerate Cuts and Commissions in any form by medical professionals on Ethical grounds. IMA stands for ethical practice. • Sex Selection: IMA is against sex selection in any form and disciplinary and legal action will be initiated against any IMA members found to be indulged in any such procedure. • National Medical Council (NMC) Bill: The House was informed that IMA has been fighting against the proposed NMC Bill. We have achieved partial success. The House was of the opinion that the NMC Bill should be withdrawn. • National Exit Test (NEXT): The House observed that all State branches are sentimental on this issue. Members were of the opinion that it should be withdrawn. • IMA Doctor Logo: The IMA Doctor Logo has been trademarked and it now needs to be promoted amongst the members. IMA requested Economic Advisor, MoHFW to kindly acknowledge it as it is patented by IMA only for use by MBBS doctors. However, the House was informed that an objection has been received from Indian Red Cross Society that IMA cannot use the “+” sign as a logo for doctors practicing modern system of medicine. The House was informed that necessary suitable action will be taken after taking legal advice in this regard. • IMA Emblem: The news that the IMA Emblem has now been patented and cannot be misused by anyone was noted with a thunderous applause by the House. Dr KK Aggarwal Dr RN Tandon National President IMA Hony Secy General IMA

Draft salient decisions taken by the IMA Central Working Committee (Part 2)

Draft salient decisions taken by the IMA Central Working Committee (Part 2) • The House was informed that MBBS students are being given free medical text books by IMA Maharashtra State Branch. It was decided to adopt this as a National Project. Current project details may be obtained by IMA HQs. from IMA Maharashtra State and necessary action be taken accordingly. • The House approved the decision of the Finance Standing Committee of IMA to invest in various investment instruments approved by the Charity Commissioner of India. • All Wings / State / Local Branches of IMA who conduct various Courses, should essentially ensure that they conduct only those courses which are covered under the aims and objectives of the Wing / State / Local Branch. No Wing should bypass its eligibility while conducting Courses. Efforts to be made to have a uniform fee structure for all courses conducted by IMA and its Wings. Dr KK Kalra, CEO, IMA HQs. was requested to suggest ways and means of popularizing the Fellowship of IMA CGP so as to give it its due recognition. It would also help in appointment of Fellows of IMA CGP in specialty hospitals as Family Medicine Specialists and admission of their patients accordingly. • Procedures to be adopted to award IMA Credit hours for Fellowship of IMA CGP. • Readers of JIMA and IMA Journal to be awarded IMA Credit Hours per Edition. • Free membership of IMAAMS and IMACGP for this year will end on 27th December. No wings will collect any money for this membership. Rs 200/- charged by wings shall be refunded. • The House authorized IMA HQs. to partner with other organizations to co-organize medical events as their Knowledge partner. • IMA may allow its logo be used by other organizations and in turn will get 10% of the turnover of the event subject to the condition that the organization and the event is not beyond the aims and objectives of IMA. • Bio medical waste rules: IMA shall come out with a white paper on Bar code and liquid waste • IMA GP Retainer Ship Policy: The House agreed that the General Practitioners (GP) can be hired by 5-member families on retainership basis. Under such an agreement, the families will be provided: o One OPD consultation per week o One monthly home visit and o Visits or treatments in case of emergencies • As a measure to retain the General Practitioners, IMA will organize yearly program on “How to start a GP clinic” for the fresh graduates and Young Doctors. • IMA HQs to organize orientation workshop for office bearers of State / Local Branches at the start of every year to make them aware of the working of IMA HQs. and have better coordination with them all year round. • IMA HQs shall come out with other zonal councils, on the lines of IMA North East Regional Council. • IMA shall have a Constitution Cell, which will look out for and shall study all the time-bound Government orders, proposed amendments in Government Rules or Acts or Government proposed new Acts and bring the same to the knowledge of the leadership of IMA, so that IMA views can be submitted on them in a timely manner. • Report of MCI Study Group (Jacob Mathew, Pt. Parmanand Kataria Guidelines) were accepted and passed by the House. • Report of the Study Group (Indian Medical services) constituted by President, MCI was accepted and passed by the House. • Draft Report of the MCI Study Group with reference to formulation of guidelines in the context of mandate incorporated at Rule 8.6 of the Code of medical ethics Regulations 2002 was accepted and passed by the House. • Proposed IMA policy One Drug: One Company: One Price shall be followed with the government • West Bengal Clinical Establishments Act: It was resolved that the IMA West Bengal State Branch and its local branches shall file a case in Kolkata High Court against its Constitutional validity and request for the removal of the draconian points in the same. It was also resolved that IMA Bengal State Branch, along with all its branches shall peruse amendments with the government. • Karnataka CEA: The House was informed that it has referred to the Joint Action Committee. (To be contd.) Dr KK Aggarwal Dr RN Tandon National President IMA Hony Secy General IMA

Draft salient decisions taken by the IMA Central Working Committee

Draft salient decisions taken by the IMA Central Working Committee At its recently convened 218th meeting held on September 23-24, 2017, New Delhi, the Central Working Committee of IMA took some salient decisions on various issues pertaining to the medical profession and the Association. Part 1 of the draft salient decisions is as below: • While paying rich tributes to Dr VCV Pillai, Past National President IMA, who passed away on August 1, 2017, the following resolutions were passed by the House as a mark of respect to the departed soul: o All National Past Presidents of IMA shall be given National Honor after their soul leaves their physical body. o IMA Flag to fly at half-mast from the day of demise till the day of last rites. o All members of IMA to observe 2-minute silence at the time of last rites of departed National Presidents o “Dr VCV Pillai Memorial Annual Address” shall be delivered at the ensuing Installation ceremony on 28th December, 2017 at Mumbai, Maharashtra as a part of the IMA Foundation Day o IMA has launched a National Program “Physician’s health first”, in the memory of Dr VCV Pillai. And, the period 30th July to 5th September every year shall be observed as a period for medical check-ups of all IMA members. • The matter related to acceptance of IMA demands by the Government was discussed at length. After discussions and deliberations, it was decided that all State Branches of IMA shall observe “Dawn to Dusk Fast” from 6am to 6 pm on October 2, 2017 at a prominent location in their area, in a non- violent structured manner, preferably in front/near a statute of Mahatma Gandhi or his photograph. All local branches shall organize: o Special General Body Meetings in accordance with their constitutional quorum at the above designated place any time during 2nd October, 2017. o Shall pass the following resolution and post and email that resolution along with a letter to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India (Letter template will be finalized and sent to the States and local Branches by IMA HQs. soon) with a copy to Chief Minister of their respective State/Local Administrative Head: Resolution All ______ (Number of members of your Branch) doctors of ______ (Branch name) of ______ (State name) hereby resolved on 2nd October, 2017 that the time has come for the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India to intervene to resolve the following issues faced by the medical professionals in the community effecting the community health on priority: 1. Central Act to tackle violence against medical profession 2. De-linking penal provisions against doctors for minor clerical errors in act like PCPNDT etc. 3. Timely amendments in agreed changes in Clinical Establishments Act and PC PNDT Act 4. Capping of compensation in cases of medical negligence 5. Withdrawal of National Medical Council Bill & EXIT proposal (NEXT) • All state and local branches are directed to make an official email ID starting with “ima.” followed by State / Branch name. The password credentials of the same should be shared between the President and Honorary Secretary of the State/local branch with a copy to IMA Headquarters. The mobile number linked to this email id shall be that of the Secretary of the State / local branch. This official email ID of the branch shall not change with the change of office bearers. The official IDs of IMA Headquarters are np@ima-india.org and hsg@ima-india.org. • Any official WhatsApp Groups of IMA Wings / Schemes / State / Local Branches can be created by the respective Honorary Secretary as the Group Admin having the name of the respective IMA Wing / Scheme / State / Local Branch only on the approval of the IMA HQs. Only such groups can use the patented IMA logo and include the “IMA” word in their names. • All state and local branches shall use the patented IMA Logo to be made available on the website of IMA with only the specified color, design and specifications. • Only IMA HQs can appoint Professors as per the laid down policy in this regard. No Wing / Scheme / Branch can appoint IMA Professors. • All IMA Wings / Schemes / State / Local Branches can organize IMA CMEs only as per laid down policy by IMA HQs. Accreditation Council and IMA credit hours shall be issued only by IMA head-quarters. The charges for the same are available in the IMA Accreditation Policy as available on the website of IMA. • IMA HEAD QUARTERS shall start a new journal by the name “IMA Journal”, which will be the mouthpiece of IMA. The first issue of the same shall be inaugurated at the ensuing 76th meeting of the Central Council of IMA and NATCON-2017. The online version of the same shall be managed by IMA HQs. • Starting from December 2017, the IMA News shall run into 100 pages. All State Branches of IMA shall be allotted 2 pages in all the issues, in which they shall cover all the important news and information about their activities and schemes etc. since the last issue. • Publication of JIMA, the official Journal of the Indian Medical Association o It was decided that the IMA JIMA Outsourcing Committee will continue to explore its options to outsource JIMA. o For the next 3 months, JIMA will continue to be printed and published at Kolkata under direct supervision of Hony Secretary General & Hony Finance Secretary of IMA HQs. o The Editorial Board will be under the direct supervision of National President, Honorary Secretary General, Honorary Finance Secretary and following five members nominated by the National President, namely National President (Elect), Dr Ravi Wankhedkar, Past National Presidents, Dr Vinay Aggarwal, Dr Ajay Kumar, Dr Sudipto Roy & Dr A Marthanda Pillai. o A minimum of 10,000 copies of good quality of JIMA shall be printed by the JIMA office at Kolkata during this period of 3 months and rest of the circulation will depend on the money raised by JIMA for each month of publication JIMA. o No funds to be provided by IMA for the same and no Investments to be utilized either. o As regards the excess of expenditure over income by JIMA office for publication of the last few issues of the publication, internal audit of JIMA accounts will be done by IMA HQs which shall ascertain and submit its report as to how JIMA has published 1.5 lakh copies with an excess of expenditure over its income. The loss will not be incurred by headquarters. o Online version of JIMA will be managed by IMA Kerala State Branch. JIMA office to provide them necessary softcopies in open formats for every issue well within time and also the JIMA website credentials for uploading and maintaining the JIMA issues. • IMA Headquarters to investigate the existence of the IMA e-Varsity. If the same is found to be prevalent, procedures to be initiated by the IMA HQs. to merge the same with IMA Headquarters. • Honorary Director, IMA AKN Sinha Institute for the year 2017-2018, Dr Rajan Sharma shall get in touch with the concerned office bearers of all the Wings and schemes of IMA and proposes the modalities of a package system for members desirous of subscribing to all the Wings and schemes IMA in one go. The same to be completed and submitted to the IMA HQs office before the ensuing 76th meeting of the Central Council of IMA so that the same can be placed before it for necessary ratification. • In order to promote the various IMA Wings and schemes, it was approved that all candidates contesting Elections to various posts of IMA HQs and its Wings as per the Memorandum, Rules and Bye-Laws of the Association, must be a member of all the schemes and relevant Wings of IMA in addition to the existing pre-requisites for the relevant posts. Necessary additions be made in the Memorandum, Rules and Bye-Laws of the Indian Medical Association accordingly. This shall be made applicable from the next Elections of IMA HQs and its Wings. • IMA HQs to investigate the complaint of a CWC member on the floor of the House, during the recently convened 218th meeting of the CWC regarding the running of two parallel IMA CGP Faculties / Sub Faculties in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana. The IMA HQs has been authorized to take necessary action as required in this regard. • All wings of IMA as included in the Memorandum, Rules and Bye-Laws of IMA, to have elected office bearers from this year. • The Chairman and Secretary of the IMA Medical Students’ Network and IMA Junior Doctors’ Network shall be included in the composition of IMA CWC and Central Council (CC) and shall be eligible to attend their respective meetings in addition to the other official meetings of IMA. • NATCON shall be hosted by a state and co-hosted by all other states. All states shall contribute Rupees one lakh each to the “IMA NATCON Fund” to be maintained at IMA HQs. The Fund so collected by the IMA HQs. shall be used for hosting the dinner/ banquet/ awards ceremony. Henceforth, all the audited accounts of the NATCON shall be provided by the organizers to the IMA HQs. who shall display the same on the IMA Website. • Only IMA HQs. shall endorse all health claim statements, as per laid down policy in this regard, which involves inviting expressions of interest. No IMA Wing / Scheme / State / Local Branch can endorse any health claim statement / product. • Existing IMA Blood Donations Policy shall now be IMA Blood Component Policy and linked to blood components • As a part of IMA Organ Donation initiative at least 25,000 IMA members should pledge their organs latest by 27th November, 2017. IMA HQs. to take necessary steps to ensure the same. (To be contd.) Dr KK Aggarwal Dr RN Tandon National President IMA Hony Secy General IMA