SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, July 3: The Indian Medical Association (IMA), Jharkhand chapter, has constituted a five-member College of General Practitioners committee to address the problems of doctors and implement the programmes of the national body.
Dr Rajat Chakravarty of Hazaribagh will head the committee as chairman while Dr Ajit Sahay of Ranchi has been made vice-chairman, Dr Sushil Kumar of Dhanbad as secretary, Dr Kumar Nishant Singh of Garhwa district as finance secretary and Dr RN Prasad of Jamshedpur will serve as joint secretary.
Dr Sushil Singh of Dhanbad was the secretary in the outgoing Hospital Board of India (Jharkhand chapter) committee. But in the new HBI committee under Dr Anant Sinha which was formed last week, Dr Shambhu Prasad Singh (former Ranchi IMA president) replaced Dr Sushil Kumar.
Giving this information today, IMA state president Dr AK Singh and secretary Dr Pradip Kumar Singh said that the committee has been formed on the directive of the IMA national body. All five members of the committee are active and experienced enough to carry on the programmes in the interest of medicos.
“Doctors (practitioners) are facing different kinds of problems and hurdles in providing health service to patients. The College of General Practitioners committee would take cognizance of their common and personal plight and try to address it through state chapter or national body,” they said.
Dr Pradip Kumar Singh said the committee is not new. “It had been defunct for some time and now on the directive of the national body, the state chapter has revived it in the interest of medicos of the state,” he added.
Earlier, the IMA executive committee had constituted a four-member IMA NSSS wing under the chairmanship of Dr BP Kashyap. Other members included Dr Gautam Mishra (vice-chairman) of Ranchi, Dr Nimaichandra Gandhi (secretary) of Deoghar and Dr Santosh Prasad (joint secretary ) of Palamu.
