Meetings

Past meetings and Annual Reports 2010-2014

2010

Chairperson - Dr Deepak Bagga

Secretary - Dr Anup Mohta

EC members-Dr Satish K Aggarwal; Dr Shilpa Sharma; Dr Archana Puri;Dr Alpana Prasad; Dr Dharmendar Singh

Annual GBM and clinical meeting at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya on 25-09-2010.

Following cases were presented during the clinical meeting

a) Colorectal duplication with rectoprostatic fistula : Dr Swarup

b) Severe midline disruption defect : Dr Sujoy

c) Wilms’ tumor: Antenatal presentation : Dr Gaurav

d) Female perineal canal : Dr Imran
All the cases generated good discussion

GBM started with welcome of all the members by the President Dr Deepak Bagga. Agenda of the Meeting was 1. Welcome by the President. 2. Approval of the last GBM minutes. 3. Presentation of Secretary's report and accounts. 4. Discussion on venue for future clinical meetings. 5. Update on World Congress preparations 6. Any other matter with the permission of the Chair Dr Anup Mohta presented the Annual Report and financial statement of the Association

The following venues were decided for the Clinical meetings in 2010-2011 1. November 2010: Max Hospital 2. January 2011 : Army Hospital 3. March 2011 : LHMC and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital 4. May 2011 : Maulana Azad Medical College 5. July 2011 : Holy Family Hospital 6. September 2011 : VMMC and Safdarjang Hospital

Members were apprised about the preparations of the World Congress of Pediatric Surgery to be organized at New Delhi. Dr Rakesh Handa suggested that the annual meeting should be a bigger affair and a full day seminar should be organized. Dr V Bhatnagar suggested to have Orations and awards papers and senior faculty could be requested for donations/contributions for the same. Dr Rajiv Chadha advised that CME should be orgainized.It could be one and half day programme. It was suggested that CGHS rate list should be looked into regarding the charges. Hospital will be organizing a CME on 30th -31st October 2010 on Pediatric surgery. Meeting ended with a vote of Thanks to the Members.

World Congress of Pediatric Surgery 3 rd World Congress of Pediatric Surgery and 36th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons at New Delhi from 21-24th October 2010. It was followed by International Workshop on Hypospadias and Intersex Disorders on 25-26th October 2010. It was an academic extravaganza and the credit of successful organization goes to Prof DK Gupta and his team from AIIMS.

Clinical Meeting at Max Hospital, Saket on 8th December 2011 The clinical meeting was organized at Max Superspecialty Hospital, Saket. Dr Anurag Krishna was the local coordinator. Following presentations were made

a) Nutrition in surgical patient : Dr Pankaj Vohra

b) Chylothorax in a neonate- unusual cause : Dr Noorullah

c) Recurrent TE fistula in a 16 year old patient : Dr Gautam The meeting was well attended and generated a lot of academic discussion.

2011

Chairperson - Dr Deepak Bagga; Secretary - Dr Anup Mohta

EC members- Dr Satish K Aggarwal; Dr Shilpa Sharma; Dr Archana Puri;Dr Alpana Prasad; Dr Dharmendar Singh

Newsletter April 2011

Clinical meeting at RR Hospital on 26th February 2011

The Clinical meeting was held at RR Hospital and was coordinated by Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Dr Manu Arora of RR Hospital coordinated the local hospitality. Cases presented were

a) Bilateral Wilms’ tumor : Dr Manu Arora ( R&R)

b) Anorectal malformation with colostomy error : Dr V Shankar (AIIMS)

c) Tracheo-esophageal fistula : Dr Shashank Panda (AIIMS)

d) Mucormycosis : Dr Sugandhi (AIIMS)

e) CDH with pulmonary hemorrhage : Dr Shashank Panda (AIIMS)

f) Gastroschisis : Dr Sugandhi (AIIMS) The cases presented focused at the problems and lessons learnt during the management. All the members participated in the discussions. The meeting was a dinner meeting and all the members enjoyed the Fellowship and Dinner at the Officer’s Mess.

Clinical meeting at LHMC and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital on 9th April 2011 A new beginning was made for the benefit of the postgraduate students in the form of PG Lecture in addition to the usual case presentation.

1. Congenital Lung Lesions: Pathogenesis, presentation and management : Prof S Roy Choudhary

2. Management issues in late presenters of exstrophy bladder : Dr Archana Puri

3. Management of nesidioblastosis : Presented By Prabudh Goel ; Moderator: Dr S Roy Choudhury The initiative of PG Lecture was appreciated by the residents and many consultants. I would appreciate feedback and suggestions on the same. All the new postdoctoral students from various centers were introduced to the members. Nest Clinical Meeting AT MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE ON 7TH MAY 2011. Prof SK Aggarwal is the local coordinator. Details will follow Congratulations !

1. It is a proud moment for Delhi chapter as one of our senior most members, Prof DK Gupta, has taken over as CSM Medical University, Lucknow. It is another feather in his decorated cap!

2. Dr Manu Arora has been selected for BAPS Fellow for 2011

3. Dr Shilpa Sharma has been selected for Lister Travelling Fellowship
Anup Mohta Honorary Secretary and Treasurer

Newsletter September, 2011

CLINICAL MEETING HELD ON 17-9-11 Venue: Old LT-(behind the OPD block), Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi. Convener: Dr Deepak Bagga The meeting was preceded by a lavishly laid out lunch from 1.00 -2.30pm. It was followed by a brief presentation by Ethicon Johnson and Johnson on Vicryl plus. Scientific Presentations 2.30- 3.30pm. Three interesting presentations were made that generated ample discussion. 1. Hypospadias – SJH experience – Dr Narinder Teckchandani Discussion; Dr Deepak Bagga

2. Spectrum of Psoas abscesses – Dr Divya Gupta Discussion: Dr Devendra Yadav

3. Two cases of Achalasia cardia – Dr P Srinivas Rao Discussion; Dr Deepak Bagga

Minutes of the GBM 2011 meeting held on 17-9-11 at VMMC, SJH, NEW DELHI. 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm

1. Annual GBM: The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dr Deepak Bagga who welcomed the members and outlined the activities of the Association. The clinical meeting was well attended by 45 members while the GBM was attended by 35 members (excluding the residents who were not members). The Secretary, Dr Anup Mohta read out the previous years report as well as the Secretary cum treasurer's report that was approved by all. The credit balance of the Delhi chapter of IAPS was declared as Rs58,363.88. Dr Manu Arora suggested that the amount should be put into a sweep FD account so that some interest may be generated. Dr Mohta raised the issue of some members who have now moved out of Delhi may be identified as Sleeping members. The members thought it better to have them on the list of members so that at least the emails are circulated to all. Dr Anup Mohta informed the members that the Delhi chapter is not a registered society for want of a permanent address and PAN number. Dr Shilpa Sharma enquired whether it is feasible to utilize the central IAPS PAN number for this purpose. Dr Anup Mohta suggested that this may be sorted out at the Annual conference at Chennai.

Secretary’s report 2010-2011 (As read out by Dr Anup Mohta) I welcome you all to the Annual GBM of lAPS (Delhi chapter). Last year has been an eventful year for the Chapter,

a) We organized 6 clinical meetings which were well attended by the members and interesting cases were presented.

b) Delhi chapter was the co host for the 3 rd World Congress of Pediatric Surgery held at New Delhi. We congratulate Prof DK Gupta and his team for excellent organization.

c) Dr Amita Sen and Dr Shilpa Sharma organized the 3 rd Annual Conference of Research Section of lAPS at PGIMER and RMLH on 6th August, 2011.

d) Prof DK Gupta has been appointed as Vice Chancellor of prestigious CSM Medical University, Lucknow.

e) Prof V Bhatnagar has taken over as head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Congratulations Sir.

f), Dr Simmi, Dr Shilpa and Dr Archana got promoted as Associate Professors. DrVisheshJain joined CNBC as Assistant Professor.

g) Many of our members participated in Conferences and Workshops as invited faculty. Dr Satish Agrawal was invited to to participate in a Live Operative Workshop on Stricture Urethra and International Symposium on Men’s Health on 13 and 14 August 2011 PGIMER RML organized by Department of Urology organized which was attended by over 250 adult urologists. The invited faculty included Professor A R Mundy from London, Ridwan Shabsigh from USA, Dr Sanjay Kulkarni (Pune), Col Bhatyal (Delhi), Prof PN Dogra (AIIMS) and Dr Dorairajan (JIPMER). He was also invited to operate on a child with recurrent stricture of posterior urethra with good results

Unfortunately, some of the suggestions made by the members like making the Annual meeting a bigger affair could not materialize due to logistic reasons. Also we need to work on the suggestion of having orations etc. Financially, lAPS Delhi Chapter account has now Rs 58,363 only. N

o expenses have been made for the third consecutive year in the running during my tenure. I thank all the members and especially our President Dr Deepak Bagga and Dr Rakesh Handa, our past president for all the cooperation and guidance during my tenure as Secretary of the Association.

2. Announcement of Election Results for the tenure 2011-2013: i. Elections were called for the post of Chairman, Secretary and 5 executive members of the Association. ii. Only one nomination from Dr Shilpa Sharma was received for the post of Secretary. She was declared elected unopposed to the post of Secretary for the next term. iii. No nomination was received for the post of Chairman and Nominations were called from the house. Dr Simmi Rattan proposed the name of Dr Satish Aggarwal that was unanimously accepted. iv. No nominations were received for the posts of Executive members for which Nominations were called from the house. Following members were declared nominated to the Executive Committee a) Dr Manu Arora (R& R Hospital) b) Dr M Srinivas (AIIMS) c) Dr Devendra Yadav (SJH) d) Dr Simmi Rattan (MAMC) e) Dr Atul Mishra (St Stephens Hospital) The house appreciated the efforts of Dr Deepak Bagga and Dr Anup Mohta who had worked harmoniously during their tenure and ensured that all clinical meeting were held on time as scheduled. The house then welcomed the new executive members with a round of applause and hoped that the new dynamic team will work even harder for the speciality. The new Chairman and Secretary were asked to share the dais with the outgoing Executive members and start working for future developments of the Delhi Chapter. Dr Deepak Bagga handed over the chair of President of IAPS (Delhi State Chapter) to Dr Satish Aggarwal while Dr Anup Mohta handed over the responsibility of the Secretary to Dr Shilpa Sharma. Dr Satish Aggarwal thanked the members for reposing confidence in the new team and assured that the team would work for the improvement of the specialty.

3. Future meetings The next clinical meeting of the IAPS Delhi Chapter was decided to be held at BL Kapoor Hospital as requested by Dr Prashant Jain. The other centres that offered for hosting the future clinical meetings were Sir Gangaram Hospital (Dr Alpana), Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya ( Dr Anup Mohta) and Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital (Dr Roy Choudhury and Dr Chadha). Prof V Bhatnagar (AIIMS) and Dr Manu Arora (R & R) offered to act as standby whenever there are no takers.

4. Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter Dr Rakesh Handa reminded the house that it was decided to have a grand Annual Meeting along with Orations during the previous meetings however, the Annual meeting 2011 was held as usual due to the shortage of funds. He asked the new Executive Members to plan ahead for the next Annual meeting. Prof V Bhatnagar suggested having a two day meeting (Saturday and Sunday) in a resort as venue. Most members happily endorsed this proposal.

5. Promotion of the Speciality Dr Simmi Rattan raised the prime issue of promotion of the speciality and a cause of concern as new residents seemed uninterested to join the speciality as it is not lucrative. All members put in their ideas and agreed that the number of permanent posts in the speciality should be increased with the proposal to have more permanent posts for Specialist Pediatric Surgeons in all Delhi Hospitals like BR Ambedkar, DDU Hospital, etc. Dr Shilpa Sharma reminded the house that a PRO post was also created last year. Dr Satish Agarwal proposed the name of Dr Anju Gambhir to act as a PRO for promoting the speciality. 6. Vote of Thanks Dr Anup Mohta thanked the house for attending the meeting and handed over the official documents to Dr Shilpa Sharma. The meeting ended with High Tea. A warm welcome to the following new members who registered on 17-9-11, a welcome beginning… 1. Dr Jai Bharat Panwar Tirath Ram Hospital Full Life 2. Dr. Narinder Teckchandani Safdarjung Hospital Associate Life 3. Dr Vinod Kumar Chaurasia Safdarjung Hospital Associate Life 4. Dr Divya Gupta Safdarjung Hospital Associate Life 5. Dr P Srinivas Rao Safdarjung Hospital Associate Life Thought for the next meeting: Should we raise the Life membership fees for the Delhi IAPS from January 2012 onwards? Presently it is Rs 500/- for Lifetime membership and Rs 200/- for Annual membership. The annual membership of NNF is Rs750/-.

Dr Shilpa Sharma Hon. Secretary & Treasurer Delhi IAPS.

IAPS meeting

9th November, 2011. It was well organized, well attended and the food was good.

The meeting began by Introduction to the hospital by Pediatricians Dr Subhah Arya and Dr JS Bhasin. They highlighted the fact that BLK is the first private hospital in Delhi to fix the pediatric age group upto 18 years.

The cases presented by Dr Prashant and his team were:

1) A COMPLICATED CASE OF HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE - Dr Prashant

2) MANAGEMENT OF RENAL ABSCESS -.Dr Ashwani Mishra

3) SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE OF CHOLEDOCHAL CYST - Dr Anjani Kundal

4) 'H' TYPE ANOURETHRAL FISTULA - Dr Prashant

5) A CASE OF GIANT ABDOMINAL CYST-Dr Ashwani Mishra

All cases generated good discussion

Delhi IAPS meeting

1. Introduction of new members

2. Logo was discussed.

3. Good News :The President informed the house that Prof DK Gupta has been recently appointed as Director, Superspeciality Hospital, Noida under UP Govt by the Chief Minister of UP. This is an added responsibility in addition to the charge as Vice Chancellor of CSMMU, as an appreciation of his administrative abilities. This is yet another feather in the cap for the speciality and would open new avenues to Pediatric Surgery. Hearty Congratulations from all of us, Sir.

4. The PRO, Dr Anju Gambhir shared her experience with the SAVE THE CHILD Campiagn with Mr Sunil Gavaskar

5. The Secretary informed the house of the possibility of 4-5 members of the chapter to participate in a Surgical Camp at Barabanki from 21-24th January,2012. The local hospitality would be provided by the Organizers. The members felt that we should first take care of the safety issues and make it official by getting an invitation letter from them.

6. The Life time registration fees for next year was discussed. Some members felt it should remain the same ( Rs 500/-) while others felt it can be raised ( Rs750/- or Rs1000/-).

7. Dr Manu Arora has volunteered to organize the next meeting in January, 2012 at RR Hospital.

The tentative date is last week of January,2012.The other option is SGRH as volunteered by Dr Alpana in last meeting.

Progress of chapter since meeting

1. Logo being designed with ideas taken

2. As discussed with Dr Anju, communication to be sent to Mr Gavaskar for

- Insurance coverage for the girl child with anomalies.

- Request Government to give compensation for the child with anomalies. Rs10,000/- minor and Rs 50,000/- major anomalies.

- Promotion of Public awareness for Pediatric Surgery

- Fix a meeting to discuss important issues

3. Discussed with Organizers of camp - They would be sending invitation soon and the back up support is by Hind Medical College. Meanwhile, members may volunteer for participation by email to seciapsdelhi@gmail.com so that teams may be formed. Delhi IAPS can take care for the AC 3 tier tickets to and from Barabanki- Rs1300/- return ticket if the members agree to under take this venture. Please think over and express your views. Will compile a voting and then decide.

4. The organizers of the Research IAPS conference held on 6th August, 2011, PGIMER,DRML, New Delhi : Dr Amita Sen and Dr Shilpa Sharma would be donating a sum of Rs 20,000/- to the corpus of Delhi IAPS.

2012

Chairperson - DR Satish Agarwal

Secretary - Dr Shilpa Sharma

EC members- Brig Manu Arora, Dr M Srinivas, Dr Simmi Rattan, Dr Devendra Yadav, Dr Atul Mishra,

10th March, 2012.

Dear Members,

We had a wonderful meeting today at RR Hospital hosted by Brigadier Manu Arora {Congratulations to Brig Manu Arora on the new rank}.

A marvelous lunch was followed by Four interesting scientific presentations on

1. Two cases of Hepatoblastoma- Presented by Dr Monica discussed by Brigadier Manu Arora

2. Bean syndrome- Presented by Dr Monica discussed by Brigadier Manu Arora

3. Wilms Tumor series- Presented by Dr Kulwant discussed by Brigadier Manu Arora

4. Nuss procedure - Presented by Dr Kulwant discussed by Brigadier Bipin Puri

All the cases were well presented and incited useful discussion by the esteemed audience including senior members like

Prof Bhatnagar, Prof Bajpai, Col Handa, Dr Kulshreshta, Prof Aggarwal, Dr Meera and Dr Sandeep.

The meeting was well attended by ~45 members including Dr Kapil Vidhyarthi, Dr Amita, Dr Atul Mishra, Dr Prashant Jain, Dr Mamta, Dr Devendra Yadav, Dr Vishesh, Dr Dhua, Dr Neogi, Dr Sinha, Lt Col Shankar and residents of AIIMS, RR, SJH, BLK.

The organizers of the Annual Conference of Research Section hand over a cheque of Rs 20,000/- to the President as donation to Delhi IAPS.

IAPS Delhi News read out by President, Dr Satish Aggarwal included

1. Annual Conference of Delhi IAPS would be in September 2012 and hosted by AIIMS (Prof V Bhatnagar).

2. Representation at Save the girl child Campaign on 28-2-12 by Dr Anju and Dr Shilpa

3. Promotion of Col Manu Arora to the rank of Bridagier

Dr Shilpa Sharma introduced the proposed new members Dr ( Lt Col ) Sanat Kumar Khanna, Dr Ashwini Mishra and Dr Anjani Kumar Kundal.

A proposal of Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week was deliberated upon. All members agreed to the idea and decided that the week should be near the Annual conference of Delhi IAPS.

Prof Bhatnagar ( AIIMS Team) has offered two proposals for the Annual Conference, for thinking by the members of IAPS.

A: Annual Conference dates September 8/9, 2012 Venue : Resort/ Out side Delhi - Suraj Kund/ Other suggestions welcome with Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week September 2-8 (Both dates included).

B : Annual Conference dates September 8/9, 2012 Venue : AIIMS with Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week September 5-11(Both dates included).

Please vote for the same through Email. as A/ B

Please send in suggestions for the Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week.

Opinions expressed

1. Banners outside Hospital gates/ Ped Surg OPDs

2. Banners/ Letters to all major schools to visit nearby hospitals for screening for free

3. Free OPDs in all private hospitals for 1-7 days during the week for Ped Surgery ( will send letters to Admin for same ) if concerned consultants ( IAPS Delhi members approve )

4. Mass Media involvement; Internet/ Newspapers/ Radio/ Pamphlets/Posters

5. Guest lectures on Public Awareness.

6. Help from Celebrities. Smt Hema Malini may help us for this. This will be Combined for all.

Please vote for 1-5 above so that the needful may be planned for your hospital as 1. Y. 2. Y etc.

If you would like to form nodal officers for the same in your hospital, do let me know

Kindly reply by 31st March, 2012, the sooner the better so that we ALL may take off !!

Work Ahead

1. Permission from main IAPS for the dates of the Annual conference.

The next meeting is on 28th April, 2012 at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital [ Dr Kulshrestha and Dr Alpana]

kind regards,

Shilpa

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Dr Shilpa Sharma
Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer
Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Delhi State Chapter

28/04/2012

Dear All,

The Delhi Chapter meeting at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi was well attended by 31 members including senior members like Dr Drivedi and Dr Shalini Agarwal. We also had Dr Shalini Singh from Norwich as a special guest invited by Dr Meera Luthra.

A lavish Lunch was followed by the scientific meeting

The presentations included

1. Neuroblastoma - Experience at SGRH. - Their last ten years experience

was wonderfully presented by Fellow, Medical Oncology, SGRH and discussed by Dr Alpana

2. An uncommon cause of hydronephrosis. - Presented by SR, Ped Surg, SGRH.

Was a retrocaval ureter, operated and discussed by Dr Kulshrestha

3. Total intestinal aganglionosis - management dilemma. Presented and

discussed by Dr Alpana

4. An interesting case of renal cyst. Was an unusually huge Renal Hydatid

Cyst. Presented and discussed by Dr Kulshrestha

The Delhi IAPS members were formally informed about the final dates of the *Annual

Conference as 8-9th September, 2012 at AIIMS.*

I thank all the members present during their meeting for their enthusiasm and willingness to do something for Delhi IAPS. Though there were less spoken words, yet the brightness in Eyes and Open minds promised - WE SHALL OVERCOME !!

*News

1.New member :* Dr Anjan Dhua (MCh- MAMC) :Congratulations on joining Dr

RML Hospital as Assistant Professor.

2. Dr Shilpa Sharma has joined AIIMS as Assistant Professor, Pediatric

Surgery.

*The Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week is scheduled from September 5-11,

2012*. All members are requested to plan their activities at local level and

inform accordingly.

The Executive members: Brig Manu Arora, Dr M Srinivas, Dr Simmi Rattan, Dr

Devendra Yadav, Dr Atul Mishra, PRO Dr Anju Gambhir, Past President Dr

Deepak Bagga and National EC Member Dr Anup Mohta are requested to take

leads.

*NEXT PLAN*

Letters to Principals of schools so that *ALL members* can deliver at least

one lecture in one-two schools each during the Awareness week. You may

choose your children's school/ Ex school for familiarity.

Members may send their achievements/ highlights for an Annual Newsletter.

This will also include the activities done for promotion of the speciality.

You may also contribute case reports of interesting cases managed by you.

Advertisements from private hospitals promoting pediatric surgery as a

speciality are welcome.

kind regards,

Shilpa

Dr Shilpa Sharma

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

04/08/2012

NEWSLETTER: August 2012

Dear All,

Wishing you all a Happy Friendship day !

The Delhi Chapter meeting at Kalawati Saran Children Hospital, LHMC, New Delhi was very well organized and attended by a large number of 49 members including senior members like Dr Shalini Agarwal. We also had Dr Farhim from Bahrain as a special guest who was visiting AIIMS.

A warm welcome along with a relishing lunch was followed by the scientific meeting

SCIENTIFIC MEETING: 4-8-12.

Welcome: Prof S Roy Choudhary

Moderator: Dr Shilpa Sharma

The interesting presentations included
1. Type III b4 TEF - Presented and discussed by Dr Archana
2. Spontaneous perforation of the CBD presented by Dr Yadav and discussed by Dr Roy Choudhary.

3. A case of Aphallia. Presented and discussed by Dr Archana
4. Mesenchymal Hamartoma. Presented by Dr Rahul and discussed by Dr Rajiv Chadha

All members took active part in the meaningful discussions:

MINUTES OF THE DELHI CHAPTER MEETING

· The Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week is scheduled from September 5-11, 2012.

Dr Shilpa Sharma made a presentation of the population and schools in Delhi NCR along with the current number of pediatric surgeons in Delhi and their division into five main groups to plan the movement of awareness campaign.

It has been planned to put banners during the week and offer free OPD services. Dr Harsh Wardhan and Dr Anju Gambhir have already confirmed that Free OPD services will be offered at Sunderlal Jain Hospital, Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Saroj Hospital and Fortis, Shalimar Bagh. Dr Rakesh Bhargav will be organizing the same at Jaipur Golden Hospital. Dr Alpana Prasad would initiate the process for Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Dr Prashant Jain would also initiate the process for BL Kapoor Hospital. Dr Atul Mishra would try for the same at St Stephens Hospital. Thus we have covered Northwest and Central Delhi.

The idea of School Health Education and awareness about surgery in children was discussed.

Dr Shilpa informed the members about her discussion with the school principal of DPS, RK Puram. It was decided to have a single copyright (Delhi IAPS) presentation for use by all members for uniformity. Dr Sujit Choudhary expressed his apprehension that the marketing of the speciality should be done in a low profile as pediatric surgery is a high profile specialized speciality. He felt we should spread the awareness to the older citizens as they hold a strong opinion in the society.

The other members felt we should keep on thinking and plan means to spread awareness. The house was unanimous in the enthusiasm to do something for the speciality as this has been discussed since September 2011. EC member Dr Simmi Rattan felt there is nothing wrong with spreading awareness to the masses as it really helps. Senior member Dr Shalini Agarwal felt it is a good idea if people are educated that they may seek direct consultations with pediatric surgeons rather than to go through pediatricians or surgeons. Dr Rakesh Handa offered to send emails of information on pediatric surgery to his various groups/ communities. Dr Amita Sen offered to organize a Public lecture on Pediatric Surgery Awareness in Dr RML Hospital.

PRO, Dr Anju Gambhir has prepared some bilingual pamphlets to be distributed during the week. Once it is ready, it will be circulated to all for use.

· The Delhi IAPS members were formally informed about the program of the Annual
Conference as 8-9th September, 2012 at AIIMS by Prof V Bhatnagar.

The two themes of the conference would be Portal Hypertension on Day 1 and Esophageal Replacement on Day 2. The registration fees is Rs1000/- currently. Members may directly contact the organizers to send their registration and free papers.

· President, Dr Satish Aggarwal informed the members about the Achievements of the members

1. Prof D K Gupta has been conferred an Honorary membership of the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons. Congratulations Sir

2. Dr Anurag Krishna has been awarded Vishisht Chikitsa Ratan Award by the Delhi Medical Association. Congratulations Sir

3. Dr Devendra Yadav has been awarded SIOP fellowship to attend the SIOP conference in October 2012. Keep it Up.

4. Dr Pinaki Ranjan Debnath, Dr Nitin Pant and Dr Amit Gupta have recently joined Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital as Assistant Professors. Welcome.

5. Dr Pratap Singh Yadav ( MCh student) at Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital has been awarded a fully sponsored fellowship to visit a centre in Canada for a period of 3 months. Excellent Opportunity.

*NEXT PLAN*

All members are requested to plan their activities at local level and inform accordingly. If any interim meeting is required to plan out the activities during the week, you are most welcome.
Members may send their achievements/ highlights for an Annual Newsletter.
This will also include the activities done for promotion of the speciality. You may also contribute case reports of interesting cases managed by you. Advertisements from private hospitals promoting pediatric surgery as a speciality are welcome.

Thoughts for the Day

Alone, you can smile but together we can laugh.

Alone, you can say but together we can shout and definitely be heard.

Alone, you can enjoy but together we can celebrate.

Please find attached the minutes of the meeting held yesterday along with the membership form for the those who wish to apply.

kind regards

Dr Shilpa Sharma

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

President Secretary/Treasurer

Dr Satish K Aggarwal Dr Shilpa Sharma

Executive Committee: Brig Manu Arora, Dr M Srinivas, Dr Simmi Rattan,

Dr Devendra Yadav, Dr Atul Mishra.

PRO Dr Anju Gambhir

Secretary’s Report [September 2011-2012]

Hon'ble Vice Chancellor of KGMU; Prof D K Gupta, President IAPS; Dr. V. Sripathi , Secretary, IAPS ;Dr. Kishore Panjwani , President, Delhi Chapter IAPS; Dr. Satish K. Aggarwal, Organizing Chairman ;Prof V Bhatnagar, Organising Secretary; Dr. Sandeep Agarwala, Eminent senior members, IAPS members from other states, Ladies and gentlemen.

Good afternoon.

I feel privileged to read out the Annual Report of Delhi chapter of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons September 2011-2012.

Today, the dreams of our members especially our Past President Col Rakesh Handa and Past Secretary Dr Anup Mohta of making the Annual meeting a bigger affair have materialized under the able organization of Prof V Bhatnagar. This First Grand Annual Conference of Delhi IAPS at AIIMS would lay the Foundation for many more in future. We now need to work on the suggestions of having Orations and I am sure we will be able to form the terms and conditions for that during our General Body Meeting tomorrow.

Last year has been an eventful year for the Chapter.

a) We have organized 4 clinical meetings and 1 web symposium during the last year which was well attended by the members and interesting cases were presented. After the Annual Conference at Safdarjung Hospital in September, 2011, clinical meetings were held at BL Kapoor Hospital, RR Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Kalawati Saran Children Hospital. One International web symposium on Minimal Invasive Surgery was organized and viewed as a group at RML Hospital.

b) During the last year, the Delhi chapter has gone out in the society for the promotion of the speciality. The PRO, Dr Anju Gambhir met Mr Sunil Gavaskar in October, 2011 and expressed the views of the Delhi members in the save the Girl Child campaign. On 28th February 2012, the PRO and the Secretary met Mrs Hema Malini, who was then the brand ambassador of Save the Girl Child campaign at the IMA hall that was flooded with around 1000+ people. We apprised her of the concerns of the Delhi Chapter of IAPS in antenatal detection & abortion in case fetus with congenital anomaly is detected as female. We also conveyed the concern about the delayed presentation of the Girl child with anomaly detected at birth.

c) The Delhi IAPS formed a blog on 14th March, 2012.

d) On 24th June, 2012, Prof Roy Choudhary participated in the Total Health program on Congenital anomalies that was telecast on DD News.

e) This year there have been many moments of pride for our members

· Prof DK Gupta who is currently on lien as Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of KGMU has also been appointed this year as the Director, Superspeciality Hospital, Noida under the UP Govt by the Chief Minister of UP, as an added responsibility in appreciation of his administrative abilities. This is yet another feather in the cap for the speciality and would open new avenues to Pediatric Surgery. Prof DK Gupta was also conferred the EUPSA Honorary membership Award during the joint congress of the EUPSA and the BAPS, held in Rome, June 2012. He was also recently invited to attend the Grand Rounds at Childrens hospital in Ohio, USA. Congratulations, Sir.

· Dr Anurag Krishna, Director of Max Hospital has been awarded Vishisht Chikitsa Ratan Award by the Delhi Medical Association. Congratulations Sir.

· Dr Satish Aggarwal was invited as guest faculty by Adult Urology Society at RML Hospital and Saudi Urology Conference in Feb 2012 where he demonstrated his techniques of urethroplasty for stricture urethra.

· MAMC organized a CME -Pediatric Surgery Update in February, 2012.

· Col Manu Arora has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier Manu Arora

· Dr Anjan Dhua joined RML Hospital as Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery [Mar’12].

· Dr Shilpa Sharma joined AIIMS as Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery [April, 2012].

· Dr Pinaki Ranjan Debnath, Dr Nitin Pant and Dr Amit Gupta have recently joined Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital as Assistant Professors

· Delhi IAPS made a mark at the Annual Conference last year at Chennai , getting seven best paper/poster awards

· Dr Devendra Yadav has been awarded SIOP fellowship to attend the SIOP conference in October 2012.

· Dr Pratap Singh Yadav (MCh student) at Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital has been awarded a fully sponsored fellowship to visit a centre in Canada for a period of 3 months.

The currently going on Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week scheduled from September 5-11, 2012 has been a great success so far.

We could educate about 600 school children on 6th September. Dr Anju Gambhir, Dr Simmi Rattan and Dr Shilpa Sharma aired their messages to the public with a good coverage on FM Gold Channel (106.4) on 6th September on this occasion. The Public Lecture Series organized yesterday (7th Sept, 2012) at RML Hospital by Dr Amita Sen and Dr Anjan was a grand success. The Faculty Dr Meera, Dr R Handa, Dr S. Aggarwal, Dr Roy Choudhary, Dr D Bagga, Dr M Pawar & Dr Chavvi did an excellent work of Explanation in Hindi. The Public, patient’s relatives, Doordarshan team and other media personnel benefitted from the program. The program was mentioned in the DD news at 9pm.

Free OPD services are being offered at Sunderlal Jain Hospital, Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Fortis, Shalimar Bagh and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, courtesy to the efforts of our members in these hospitals Dr Rajeev Kulshrestha, Dr Anju Gambhir, Dr Harsh Wardhan and Dr Alpana Prasad. I am sure other private hospitals in Delhi are also joining in; the final reports are yet to come in. Banners have been put up at these hospitals and Public Education is being imparted.

Many of our members participated in Conferences and Workshops as invited faculty.

Delhi IAPS is extremely grateful to Hon'rable Vice Chancellor of KGMU, Prof D K Gupta for arranging a fruitful meeting with the Chief Minister, Smt Sheela Dikshit, yesterday attended by four of us; Hon'rable Vice Chancellor Sir, our President Dr Satish Aggarwal , PRO Dr Anju Gambhir and Dr Shilpa Sharma.

We handed over a two page detailed letter containing three heads

1. What is pediatric Surgery?

2. Problems faced in Delhi as regards the patients and the Doctors

3. Solutions

a) More Government Jobs

b) Insurance/ Monetary help to poor patients

c) Advertisement/ Awareness of the Speciality through Government.

I am happy to inform you all that our Chief Minister is very much with us. She has agreed in principle for advertisements of more jobs in Delhi Government hospitals with a remark “DONE”. Though she could not take in the insurance idea due to constraints of no control over the insurance companies and problem of many patients coming into Delhi for treatment from nearby states, However, by repeated persistence of four of us, she did ask us to be in communication with the Health Minister, Dr Kiran Walia with a framework of the severe anomalies in poor patients might be given monetary help from the Government under some scheme. This would include newborns with severe anomalies that are not getting beds in Government hospitals due to limited resources but do require early treatment to save their lives. We take this as a positive beginning and would follow this issue from door to door till its done. She was very happy to hear about our Pediatric Surgery Awareness Campaign and is keen to improve the awareness about conditions in children that may require surgery. The Delhi IAPS is grateful to the President IAPS, Dr V Sripathy and the Secretary IAPS, Dr. Kishore Panjwani for supporting us in our endeavors.

Financially, lAPS Delhi Chapter account has now increased from Rs 58,363 to Rs 83,363 only, with Rs 20,000 as donation from organizers of the 3rd Annual Conference of Research Section in August last year at RML hospital and ten new members. No expenses have been made in the last year during my tenure.

I thank all the members and especially our President Dr Satish Aggarwal, our Past President Dr Rakesh Handa, and our past Secretary and member of the Executive Committee from Northern India of the main body of IAPS, Dr Anup Mohta, for all the cooperation and guidance during this first year of my tenure as Secretary of the Association. I look forward to continuing support from ALL of you so that together we can achieve our target of making our Speciality a matter of Pride and thus help more children suffering from congenital anomalies.

Jai Hind.

Highlights of the Annual GBM on 9th September, 2012

· The success of the Annual Conference 2012 at AIIMS was appreciated unanimously.

· The issue for the need to raise the corpus was discussed. It was realized that if we need to promote awareness and academic activities, we need to generate funds for smooth functioning.

· The life membership fees of Delhi IAPS has been raised to Rs 1000/-.

· A one- time membership renewal of Rs1000/- has been proposed by the members to raise the corpus of Delhi IAPS for academic activities.

· The residents can become associate members to be converted to life members on completion of M Ch pediatric Surgery and Central IAPS membership.

· An Oration Foundation committee has been proposed to lay down the guidelines of the terms and conditions of Delhi Chapter IAPS Oration; Prof V Bhatnagar, Col Rakesh Handa, Prof Satish Aggarwal, Prof Roy Choudhary and Dr Arvind Sabarwal.

New Members (n=10)

Dr Jai Bharat Panwar

Tirath Ram Hospital

Full Life

Dr. Narinder Teckchandani

Safdarjung Hospital

Associate Life

Dr Vinod Kumar Chaurasia

Safdarjung Hospital

Associate Life

Dr P Srinivas Rao

Safdarjung Hospital

Associate Life

Dr Divya Gupta

Safdarjung Hospital

Associate Life

Dr Sannat Kumar Khanna

RR Hospital

Full Life

Dr Ashwani Mishra

BL Kapoor Hospital

Associate Life

Dr Anjani Kumar Kundal

BL Kapoor Hospital

Associate Life

Dr. Anjan Dua

RML Hospital

Full Life

10.

Dr Raj Pal

MAMC

Associate Life

Statement of Accounts (Sep 2011-2012)

Opening balance Rs 58,363

Donation by Dr Amita Sen Rs 20,000

Membership (10 @Rs500/member) Rs 5000

Interest Yet to get statement from Bank

Expenditure Nil

Closing Balance Rs 83, 363

Dr Shilpa Sharma

Hon. Secretary & Treasurer

Delhi IAPS.

2013

Chairperson - DR Satish Agarwal

Secretary - Dr Shilpa Sharma

EC members- Brig Manu Arora, Dr M Srinivas, Dr Simmi Rattan, Dr Devendra Yadav, Dr Atul Mishra,

09/03/2013

Dear Delhi IAPS Members,

We would like to thank you all for your overwhelming attendance at the meeting on 9th March, 2012 at CNBC... we had been together at CNBC after 2 and a half years!

It was nice to see that 49 members had signed the register (though 60 lunch plates were taken, the head count was 49).

The Conference room was full and jam packed- thanks to Prof Anup Mohta for the Generous Hospitality.

The scientific meeting as below was interesting and followed by good discussions.

Chairs: Prof Bhatnagar, Prof Bajpai. Discussion: Prof Mohta and team

a) Delayed management of Bronchial Injury; Dr Vishesh Jain

b) An unusual cause of Intestinal Perforation: Dr Chhabi Ranu Gupta

c) Experience with long gap Esophageal Atresia : Dr Vivek Manchanda

d) Experience with Female Epispadias: Dr Manta Sengar

Minutes of the Delhi Chapter meeting on 9th March, 2013.

The Following News was read out by Dr Shilpa as below

1. Dr Anup Mohta has taken over as Medical Superintendent of CNBC. Congratulations Sir.

2. Dr OP Tucker, an AIIMS Alumni is now working in Delhi at Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital. Welcome to Delhi Sir

3. Dr Satish Agarwal was invited as Faculty in a Urology Workshop at Jehdah Hospital.

4. Dr Nidhi Sugandhi and Dr Monica Nanda have joined RML Hospital as Assistant Professors. Congratulations!

5. Dr Anjan Dhua has joined Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital. Congratulations and Keep up the good work!

6. Dr Anand Sinha has joined Fortis Hospital, Gurgaon. Congratulations and All the best!

Discussions were as follows

1. There was only one proposal for hosting the Annual Conference of Delhi IAPS from Prof Bajpai, AIIMS that was unanimously accepted by the members.

2. The letter given to the Hon Health Minister of Delhi State- Dr AK Walia on 5.3.13 was circulated. Delhi IAPS Members- Dr Anup Mohta ( EC member, IAPS), Dr Anju Gambhir (PRO, Delhi IAPS) and Dr Shilpa Sharma (Secretary, Delhi IAPS ) had a fruitful meeting of 30 minutes with Shri AK Walia at the Delhi Secretariat.

3. Dr Shilpa informed the members that Delhi IAPS would hand over a proposal to the Delhi Health Minister to advertise the posts of Pediatric Surgery in all major Delhi Government Hospitals. This would include starting Ped Surgery Departments (at least 3-6 posts) in Medical colleges like GTB (UCMS ), Ambedkar Hospital (proposed medical college) and Sanjay Gandhi (proposed medical college) and at least 2 posts in major hospitals like DDU. The members felt we should not ask for the numbers but just ask for creation of posts and leave it for the government to decide. All members agreed that this proposal should be a priority as it is the need of the hour.

4. The members debated about the recommended age for Pediatric Surgery. Prof Bhatnagar felt that the Government Hospitals are not be able to cope up with the workload even at a cut off age of 12. Dr Amita Sen rightly pointed out that more bed strength and Operating time would be required. Dr Arvind Sabarwal suggested that we could pick up those issues as well one by one.The members felt that raising the cut off age for the private set up would help to get more number of patients in the Pediatric Surgery domain. Dr Sabarwal informed the members that presently General Surgeons are operating upon 1-1.5 year old with hernias, and only the newborn patients are referred to the Pediatric Surgeon. A voting by hand raising count was called for; 12 versus 18 years. The majority of the members voted for 18 years as the cut off age. Dr Mohta informed the members that the Health Minister had told us to follow the IAP and WHO guidelines. It was thus decided to advertise 18 years as the cut off age. However, independent Hospitals were given the freedom to set up their cut off ages depending on the workload.

[ On a lighter note; in a few years, few heavily loaded hospitals may even think of bringing down the age to 5 years (as desired by General Surgeons), but remember that in Teaching Hospitals, you are admitting and operating patients to TEACH the trainees; ideally at least 30% patients should be operated upon by trainees in Teaching Hospitals]

5. Dr Mohta informed the members that the Health Minister has told us that the rate list for the surgical procedures of DMHS follows that of CGHS so we would need to get the revisions done in the CGHS list. Dr Shilpa informed the members that the DMA is currently working on revising the rate list and members of Delhi chapter IAPS who are also members of DMA should put in their efforts for the needful changes. Dr Anju Gambhir ( in abstentia) had offered to convey the same to the DMA authorities through Dr Ajay Gambhir who is an active member of the committee. Prof Bhatnagar informed the members that Dr Satpathy at AIIMS had made a rate list for CGHS few years back. Dr Rakesh Bhargav offered to help in pursuing this matter with the Health Minister. Dr Shilpa proposed that a committee should be formed to pursue this issue diligently. Dr Shilpa proposed a committee comprising of Dr Arvind Sabarwal, Dr Rakesh Bhargava, Col Rakesh Handa (in abstentia), Dr Anju Gambhir (in abstentia) and Dr Devendra Yadav.

6. Dr Shilpa informed the members that Delhi IAPS requested the Health Minister for Healthy Schemes to help poor patients. The Health Minister informed us of the Aroqya Neeti that can help poor patients. He expressed full support from the Government if the necessary documents are submitted for financial help to any poor patient for upto Rs 2 lakhs. Dr Anup Mohta and Dr Satish Aggarwal have utilized this scheme and are requested to provide the members with the details of the same.

7. Dr Shilpa informed the members that the Delhi Government is willing to support us for the cause of Public Awareness and also to conduct Pediatric Surgical Camps in the state. As Health is a State issue, we should all join hands to do our bit for the Society and promote the speciality as well.

8. A Warm Welcome to all the New Members ;

1. Dr Balkrishna Tripathi MAMC Associate Life

2. Dr Rajat Piplani MAMC Associate Life

3. Dr Souml Shinde CNBC Associate Life

4. Dr Gaurav Jetley CNBC Associate Life

5. Dr Navdeep Singh Dhoa RR Hospital Associate Life

6. Dr Sugandh Aggarwal Sir Ganga Ram Associate Life

7. Dr Nidhi Sugandhi RML Hospital Full Life

8. Dr Anand Sinha Fortis Hospital Full Life

Pediatric Surgeons are gentle human beings with lots of compassion and dedication towards their work........Its now time to work a little harder and motivate the society to help us in our mission. Lets meet again for the common cause on 6th April 2013.

The next meeting of Delhi Chapter is on 6-4-2013 to be held at PGIMER, Dr RML Hospital.

Venue: First floor Conference Room 104, PGIMER Administration Building

Lunch: 1.00 pm onwards

Scientific Meeting: 2.45 pm - 4.00 pm Details to follow soon.

Convener: Dr Amita Sen

Delhi Chapter Meeting: 4.00 -4.30 pm

Proposed Agenda;

Annual Conference with ISPU_ASPU and PUC-IAPS: Prof Bajpai
Oration Foundation Committee Proposal: Prof Bhatnagar; Col Handa; Prof Aggarwal; Prof Choudhary; Dr Sabarwal
Reminder for Renewal of membership with Rs 1000 each:
Revised Rate list for CGHS/ DMHS for Pediatric Surgery: Dr Arvind Sabarwal, Dr Rakesh Bhargava, Col Rakesh Handa, Dr Devendra Yadav.
Awareness Proposal: Dr Anju Gambhir
Surgical Camp Proposal:

Other suggestions are welcome.Hoping to see you in large numbers again at RML Hospital.

kind regards,

Shilpa

03/08/2013

Dear All,

There was a good gathering of 52 members at Safdarjung Hospital ( Amazing !!).Senior members like Dr Shalini Agarwal, Dr Sunita Mullick and Dr Rakesh Bhargava graced the occasion. Chairman, Dr Satish Agarwal and Dr Meera Luthra had expressed their inability to join.

A lavish lunch was served which was enjoyed by all. Thanks to Dr Bagga Sir and his team.

Chairperson : Dr Shalini Agarwal chaired the sessions very well and shared her experience

A series of 92 cases of Acute Appendicitis was presented.
The technique of de-epithelialised glansplasty was well appreciated.
The three case presentations( one series) were very interesting and followed by good discussions.

The Well Groomed Team of Pediatric Surgery, Safdarjung Hospital organized and conducted the meeting very well.

Dr Deepak Bagga efforts in nurturing his faculty members was well evident in the presentations and the neat surgical photographs.

About the Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College

Safdarjang Hospital was founded during the Second World War in 1942 as a base hospital for the allied forces. It was taken over by the Government of India. Ministry of Health in 1954. Until the inception of All India Institute of Medical Science in 1956, Safdarjang Hospital was the only tertiary care hospital in South Delhi. Based on the needs and developments in medical care the hospital has been regularly upgrading its facilities from diagnostic and therapeutic angles in all the specialties. The hospital when started in 1942 had only 204 beds, which has now increased to 1531 beds. The hospital provides medical care to millions of citizens not only of Delhi but also the neighboring states free of cost. Safdarjang Hospital is a Central Government Hospital under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Vardhman Mahavir Medical College was established at Safdarjang hospital in November 2001 and on 20th November 2007, the Vardhman Mahavir Medical College building was

dedicated to the nation. The first batch of MBBS students joined the college in February 2002. The college has recognition by the Medical Council of India. The college is affiliated

to Guru Govind Singh I P University, Delhi, From 2008 onwards the post graduate courses are also affiliated to GGSIP which were with Delhi University earlier.

Delhi IAPS Discussions

Prof Minu Bajpai addressed the audience and gave valuable insights into the developments for the upcoming Pediatric Urology Conference and Annual Conference of the Delhi Chapter. Dr Nitin Sharma made a brief slide presentation of the same.
Dr Shilpa Sharma informed the members about the Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week. The main IAPS Dr Sudhakar President and Dr Kishore Panjwani have approved of this activity officially. We can use the IAPS Logo in the banners and promotions.
Dr Arvind Sabarwal and Dr Anand Sinha were one of the first ones to volunteer to promote the PSA week and participate at Fortis Gurgaon.
Dr Anju Gambhir, Fortis , Shalimar Bagh will delivering a Public lecture on 14th August, 2013 to promote the week
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital ( Dr Kulshrestha and Dr Alpana) will be displaying posters and giving free consultations and discounted rates for surgery.
Dr Amita Sen had informed that RML Hospital would be displaying the slides of promotion on the LCD screens in various waiting areas outside OPDs at RML Hospital.
Dr Roy Choudhary, Dr Chadda and Dr Pinaki would be promoting the program at Kalawati.
Dr Sujoy Neogi will be our ambassador at Hamdard Institute of Medical Science & Research
Dr Rakesh Bhargava will be promoting the PSA week at Jaipur Golden and Sant Parmanand Hospital.
Dr Prashant Jain is working hard for the same at BL Kapoor Hospital
Dr Anand Kushwaha will promote the activities at Action Balaji.
Dr Anjan Dhua will promote the activities at Pushpanjali Crosslay. He will also be preparing a video of laparoscopic herniotomy.
Prof Anup Mohta, Dr Chabbi, Dr Mamta, Dr Vishesh, Dr Vivek will light the movement at Chacha Nehru.
Dr Satish K Agarwala and Dr Simmi Rattan will educate the layman at MAMC
Prof V Bhatnagar and his team will be organizing a Pediatric Awareness Lecture at AIIMS on Pediatric Hernia on 7th September, 2013. All Delhi IAPS members and their patients are invited to join the same in LT-1, AIIMS.

Advertisement prepared for PSA week
The Delhi Chapter of the Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons takes pride in announcing the Pediatric Surgery Awareness Week scheduled from 5th to 11th September, 2013.The theme is “Hernia in children”.
Delhi IAPS members would educate the masses on Pediatric hernia that may occur from newborn age up to 18 years of age. Government hospitals will conduct educational programmes. Many private hospitals like Fortis (Shalimar Bagh), Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Fortis (Gurgaon), BL Kapoor Hospital, Hamdard Institute of Medical Science & Research, Action Balaji,Jaipur Golden, Sant Parmanand Hospital and Pushpanjali Crosslay will provide free consultations and discounted rates with regards to surgery in children during the week. Other private hospitals providing Pediatric Surgical facilities include Sunder Lal Jain, Maharaja Agrasen, Max Group of Hospitals (Patpatganj, Pitampura, Saket, Gurgaon, Noida), Apollo Hospital, St Stephens, Mool Chand, Sita Ram Bhartia, Tirath Ram Hospital and Holy Family. Government Hospitals like AIIMS, Kalawati Saran Children Hospital, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya, RML Hospital (PGIMER), Safdarjung Hospital (VMMC), Lok Nayak (MAMC) and PGIMER, ESI, Basaidarapur will educate the layman. A Public lecture is being organized at AIIMS on 7th September, 2013. All including the general public are invited to attend the Public lecture from 1.15 pm to 2.15 pm in LT-1 at AIIMS.

15 Hospitals have joined in the movement. Please do let me know if I have missed any names. Others are most welcome to join.

I am also happy to inform you that this activity will be promoted by our FRIENDS in other parts of the Country as well.

Dr Suhasini Gazula, Hyderabad has prepared a very nice article (5 pages) on "Why a pediatric Surgeon?" We will try to get it to press.
Dr Anirudh Shah and Dr Amar Shah at Amardeep Children hospital will provide free OPD and free surgery for hernia during the week.
Dr Kanishka Das, AIIMS, Bhubaneshwar and Dr Prashant Agarwal, Chennai have also joined us and would be preparing the posters in local languages.

Renewal membership for promotion of Speciality

Rs 1000 each was contributed by the following towards renewal of membership (Thanks to Dr Vishesh and Dr Vivek for the mammoth efforts). Thanks to all who contributed for believing that the money will not be wasted. Would request the others to also be generous to pay their dues soon. If someones name has been left out from the list, please do let me know.

1. Dr Ravi Kale

2. Dr Rakesh Handa

3. Dr Vishesh Jain

4. Dr Vivek Manchanda

5. Dr Amita Sen - Cheque

6. Dr M Srinivas

7. Dr S Agarwala

8. Dr R Chadha

9. Dr Roy Choudhary

10. Dr Devendra Yadav

11 Dr Dharmendra Singh

12 Dr Chabbi R Gupta

13. Dr Mamta Sengar

14.Dr Shalini Agarwal

15.Dr V Bhatnagar

16. Dr Anju Gambhir- cheque

17. Dr Shilpa Sharma

Two new members have applied for Delhi IAPS membership. Welcome to Delhi IAPS.

Dr Virender Shekhon, M Ch Pediatric Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh has joined Medanta Hospital (Mentor; Dr Meera Luthra)
Dr Shankar Raman M Ch Pediatric Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi has joined RR Hospital.

With these two joining, our number has crossed the 100 mark. Long live Delhi IAPS.

A vacancy of Assistant Professor Pediatric Surgery has been advertised at MAMC. A lot of clinical work awaits the person who joins.

Please find attached the Slide presentation to be displayed during the week.

Please find attached the Directory of Delhi IAPS that has been updated as per the changes circulated during the meeting.

It seems the new members were very busy to fill in their details. Please send in your latest details soon for the update.

kind regards,

Shilpa

--
Dr Shilpa Sharma
Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer
Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Delhi State Chapter

01/09/2013

Dear Prof Bajpai,

On behalf of all the members of Delhi IAPS , kindly accept Hearty Congratulations to you and your team on the Grand Success of the Mega Pediatric Urology Conference that had around 377 delegates and 25- 30% of Urologists participating.

Every body attending the conference must have learnt something from the eminent speakers and renowned faculty. The auditorium being full even in the late evening hours is a testimony to the successful academic feast.

The hospitality, minute to minute detail, food and organization was praiseworthy, each delegate was satisfied & happy and I am sure this event would remain in their memories for long.

The efforts of ALL senior/ junior residents and the research staff was flawless due to your preemptive guidance that gave them the strength and direction to follow. Their tireless efforts in following the protocols, nicely laid out by you, to follow, with a smiling face demonstrated their dedication to their leader and the Event.

Prof S Agarwala and Prof M Srinivas along with the residents did a great job in the operation theatre contributing to the smooth running of the show.

The Delhi IAPS would like to thank you for giving Delhi IAPS an opportunity to participate in the Event. The Delhi IAPS Symposium on Urethral Strictures designed by Chairman Prof Satish Aggarwal and Prof Minu Bajpai was also a grand success. It gave an opportunity to demonstrate the operative skills of Dr Deepak Bagga, Dr Satish Aggarwal and Dr M Bajpai with the urologists Prof Amlesh Seth, Prof PN Dogra and Dr MS Ansari adding their contributions from the Urology side.

Congratulations to all Delhi IAPS members on a successful Annual and Conference at AIIMS that would be remembered for ages. It couldn't have been better. We also thank all the members for attending the event in large numbers.

We would have a GBM in the next clinical meeting .. would be announced soon. Delhi IAPS hopes the members would not mind the postponement of the GBM as a GBM need to be announced well in advance for adequate attendance and it was difficult to decide the appropriate timing for that in such an event with lots of happenings.

kind regards,

Shilpa

2014

Chairperson - DR Ravi Kale

Secretary - Dr Shilpa Sharma

EC members- Dr Anju Gambhir, Dr Pinaki Debnath, Col Sannat Khanna, Dr Vishesh Jain, Dr Prashant Jain

Dear All,

The meeting at LHMC was very well attended by 53 members. I would like to sincerely thank all those who came for this meeting.

There were 4 exhaustive presentations followed by useful discussions.

Chairs : Dr Shalini Agarwal and Maj Gen Ravi Kale, President Delhi IAPS

(i) Protocol-based management of liver abscess in children Dr Rahul Saxena & Prof Roy Choudhary

(ii) Congenital pouch colon in girls: genitourinary abnormalities and their management. Dr Shalu Shah & Prof Rajiv Chadha

Chairs : Prof M Bajpai and Prof Anup Mohta

(iii) Histological insights into the functional outcome of bladder exstrophy. Dr Surendra Kumar Aggarwala & Dr Archana Puri

(iv) Premenarchal vaginal bleed: lessons learnt Dr Satyajit Sikdar & Dr Archana Puri

International Womens Day

Dr Shalini Agarwal shared her experience of joining LHMC as an MBBS student way back in 1949 and then starting the Department of Ped Surgery at LHMC with 26 beds. Today there are 32 beds.

Good news : Congratulations to

Prof Satish Agarwal on being promoted to the post of Director Professor. Pride for Pediatric Surgeons of Delhi !!
Prof Sandeep Agarwala on being imparted FRCS.

New member: Welcome !

Dr Surendra Agarwal, Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital.

The members wished each other a Happy Holi.

The next meeting is on 25th April 2014 at BL Kapoor Hospital. Convener : Dr Prashant Jain.

Will send all a calender invitation, please accept on the email to confirm attendance, makes it easy for organizers for logistic purposes.

regards,

Shilpa

Dear All,

IAPS Delhi chapter
meeting was held on 3rd May in BLK. The meeting was
attended by 35 members. I would like to
sincerely thank all those who came for this meeting.

There were 5 interesting presentations followed by discussions.

Session was chaired by : Dr Malik and Maj Gen Ravi Kale, President Delhi IAPS

1) 1) Thoracoscopic repair of diaphragmatic hernis: Dr Prashant Jain

2) 2) Separation of pygopagus twin: Dr Prashant Jain

3) 3) Rare causes of urethral obstruction in children: Dr Anjani K. Kundal

4) 4) Role of fibrinolytic therapy with Alteplase in pediatric empyema thoracis: Dr Pradeep Sharma

5) 5) Multiple rare complications of VP shunt in a child: Dr Anjani K. Kundal

The next meeting would
be held on 25th July 2014 at RML Hospital ( Convener : Prof Amita Sen)

26/07/2014

Dear All,

The meeting at RML on 26th July, 2014 was attended by 40 members. The attendance of senior residents was markedly poor ( wake up teachers!).

The lunch was well laid out and relished by the members

Scientific Session

Chairmen : Prof Deepak Bagga, Dr Rakesh Bhargava

The presentations were as below

1. Micro vascular density in cases of proximal hypospadias- Our initial experience : Dr.Vishrut Narang. Discussion: Prof Amita Sen

2. A case of Extraadrenal Pheochromocytoma: Dr. Nidhi Sugandhi

3. Metabolic and Radiological profile of children with intestinal obstruction: Dr. Sarita Sayal. Discussion: Dr Monica Nanda.

4. Lymphovenous malformation of the thigh causing limb discrepancy in a child : Discussions on How to go ahead in the case : was presented by Dr Anand Sinha. The members suggested to get a DSA done and look for any feeding vessel.

All cases were followed by good discussion.

GBM and Tea. 3:15-4:00 PM

Maj Gen Ravi Kale informed the members about the preparations in full swing for the Annual Conference on 6-7th September 2014.

The CME on 6th would be based on Pediatric Surgery for the General Surgeons as the conference would be combined with the Annual Conference of Surgeons of Armed Forces.

The two themes proposed for the conference were

1. Long term outcomes

2. Complications in Pediatric Surgery.

Col Shankar is the Organizing Secretary and would moderate the scientific sessions.Dr Anju Gambhir, Dr Archana Puri, Dr Alpana Prasad and Dr Shilpa would help him in formulating the program. Speakers would be proposed by the moderators. If any member wants to participate as a speaker, you are most welcome to contact the moderators and chose your topic of interest on the two themes. Free papers are also invited as already circulated by Col Shankar.

The chairman conveyed to the members that as communicated to Prof D K Gupta, Prof Upadhyay would be unable to attend the conference to deliver the First IAPS Oration on the proposed date and has requested for anytime after 15th Sep at any venue where he would be able to access easily being bound to a wheelchair.

Prof V Bhatnagar proposed the idea of utilizing skype for the same. The chairman, secretary and other members felt it may not be a feasible option as there is no guarantee for the same. The secretary asked the members for any volunteers to organize the oration at a later date. The date and venue of the Oration (most likely at AIIMS, New Delhi) will be decided and communicated later.

The Title of the Oration is "History of Pediatric Surgery".

News , New Appointments and Achievements

Prof D K Gupta has joined back AIIMS as Head of Department , Pediatric Surgery since April this year. He had expressed his inability to join the meeting at RML being out of station. Welcome back Sir.
Dr Shilpa Sharma has joined the main Department of Pediatric Surgery at AIIMS in April 2014.
There have been 4 new appointments as Assistant Professors at AIIMS, New Delhi. Dr Devendra Yadav, Dr Vishesh jain, Dr Prabudh Goel and Dr Anjan Dhua. Hearty Congratulations !!
Dr Prashant Jain had operated on Conjoint twins sometime back. It was aired on Discovery channel on 27th July,2014 at 9 pm. Congratulations Dr Prashant for the great work and honor that you brought to the country. Delhi IAPS is proud of you.
Prof Archana Puri has shifted to PGIMER, Dr RML Hospital as Professor of Pediatric Surgery from LHMC. Congratulations Madam.
Links to the coverage as below on Dr Prashant Jain as below

Indian Doctors Separate Conjoined Twins from Nigeria ...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKW2lAaX_vA
Sep 4, 2013 - Uploaded by CRTVCAMEROUN
Browse channels ... when they came to us which is very rare," paediatric surgeon Prashant Jain said ...
Conjoined twins surgery by Dr. Prashant Jain - Pediatric ...
www.pedsurgerydelhi.com/conjoined-twins-surgery-by-dr-prashant-jain....
Aug 12, 2013 - a super speciality team led by Dr Prashant jain at BLK ... Twin girlsHussaina and Hassana were born conjoined in Nigeria on 28 August, 2012.
Missing: discovery ‎channel
Conjoined baby twins separated after 18-hour surgery ...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/.../conjoined-baby-twins-separated-after-22529...
Sep 5, 2013 - Conjoined baby twins survive miracle separation after gruelling 18-hour surgery ... Dr Prashant Jain, the paediatric surgeon who led the team, said: "The ... Toddler 'gives birth' to his own twin brother discovered living in his ...
Further work by Delhi IAPS

Web seminar on Hirschsprungs on 20th August : 5 members have showed interest till now: Dr Meera Luthra, Dr Prashant Jain, Dr Anjani Kumar, Dr Monica Nanda and Dr Shilpa
Awareness Campaign IAPS : November 2014 Theme Meningomyelocele
Dr Shilpa Sharma informed the members about the Awareness Campaign and requested the members to plan some activities in their hospitals during the month of November with emphasis on Meningomyelocele, public lectures, school visits in the community and poster displays.
The members are requested to prepare slides in Hindi language and send to the seciaps@gmail.com so that a uniform ppt can be prepared for display. Dr Virendra Sekhon has agreed to help in the slide preparation.
Two new members have joined Delhi Chapter
1. Dr Deepak Agarwal, Apollo Hospital. Welcome !.
2. Dr Deepak Kandpal, Apollo Hospital.Welcome !.
Delhi IAPS Annual meet September 6-7, 2014: Maj Gen Ravi Kale. Please register soon. The registration is free but a formal registration is important. Please do inform the Organizers whether you would be able to join for the Dinner on 6th September, 2014. ITS VERY IMPORTANT and a genuine request. An email in this regard would be highly appreciated.

kind regards,

Shilpa

20/08/2014

Dear All,

As we wait for the next Delhi IAPS Annual Conference, its also time

for the next Delhi IAPS Elections.

Officially the tenure of Secretary Delhi IAPS is 3 years and that of

the President is 2 years.

As we had decided in the GBM at SGRH, we would now be also electing a

President Elect post as our membership has now crossed the 100 mark.

I would like to remind you all that my tenure of three years (2011-14)

is near completion in September 2014. I would like to sincerely thank

you all for the kind support that you gave me and look forward to

inviting nominations for the following posts of Executive Council of

Delhi Chapter, Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons.

1. Secretary (One) - Three year tenure- 2014-2017

2. President Elect (One) – Two year Tenure- 2015-2017

Nominee should be a member of Indian Association of Paediatric

Surgeons (Delhi Chapter).

Please send your duly filled nomination form in the given format

(attached) to the Returning Officer, IAPS, Delhi Chapter, so as to

reach on 25th August 2014 by 5 PM.

The last date for withdrawal of the nomination form will be 30th

August 2014 till 5 PM.

The elections (if required) will be held during Annual General Body

Meeting the Annual Conference at RR Hospital September 6-7th, 2014.

Returning Officer:

Prof Satish Aggarwal, Past President,

Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons (Delhi Chapter)

Address:

No. 5, Type V Quarters,

Malauna Azad Medical College Campus,

Kotla Road, New Delhi-110002.

kind regards,

Shilpa

Dr Shilpa Sharma

Honorary Secretary cum Treasurer

Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons

Delhi State Chapter

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