Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 8: Newly elected chairman of J&K State Chapter of Association of Surgeons of India (JAKASI), Dr. Sanjay Kumar Bhasin, also Prof. of Surgery at GMC Jammu has taken over from Prof. Fazl Q Parry for two years.
Dr. Zaffar Saleem Khanday (Associate Prof. from GMC Srinagar) and Dr. Shams-ul-Bari (Associate Prof. from SKIMS-MC) were nominated unanimously as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer respectively.
Prof. Iqbal Saleem took over as Vice-Chairman of the Association.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Bhasin here today took review meeting of newly formed Executive Committee which decided to hold annual conference of the chapter (JAKASICON-2022) in physical mode on September 23 and 24, 2022 at GMC Srinagar wherein nationally and internationally acclaimed faculty from Association of Surgeons of India from all across the country shall take part.
Similarly, mid-term conference was allotted to GMC Anantnag to be held in mid July this year. The academic calendar for 2022-23 was also finalized wherein surgical and academic outreach programmes shall be conducted at district and sub-district hospital levels in the larger interest of patient care and raising surgical and academic standards at grass root levels. Furthermore, it was also decided JAKASI shall come up with a surgical newsletter initially followed by a surgical journal in due course of time.
Prof. Bhasin in his concluding remarks said that at present the JK Chapter of ASI is having more than 350 surgeons from across J&K as its members and the younger lot shall be encouraged to become members of this prestigious surgico-academic body to raise teaching-training standards.
He further said that as a social responsibility the Association shall be organizing various outreach programmes in the form of medical-surgical camps and interacting with surgeons sitting in rural settings to represent their surgical knowledge and skills.
For this help from the both Health Directorates and Principals of peripheral GMCs shall be required.
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