‘Mid-term Reflections of the President’—Charting Progress and Future Directions for the Association of Surgeons of India
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Dear Friends,Greetings from the Association of Surgeons of India!As I reach the halfway point of Presidential term, I not only heartily thank members of the Association for the tremendous support and love that I have received.ASI has emerged out of the tumultuous times, arising out of discordance and conflict amongst its members.The year was 2015, my first term as a Governing Council member of ASI.The mayhem at the Gurgaon conference where we were supposed to start our innings was marred by unruly scenes at the conference venue, police forces called in to protect the then President, ECs not allowed to take charge and national office bearers shying away from hired hoodlums of a group of so-called respectable members of our Association.What followed was a spate of court cases all over the country, from Haryana to Bihar to Odisha to Chennai.It was extremely disheartening for me to see the affairs of this body and I wondered if my decision to be a leader of such a tainted organisation was correct.When the situation reaches its lowest ebb, strong leaders emerge and something similar happened in ASI.The grounded ship of ASI was now ably steered out of the quagmire of scandals and muckraking by leaders like Dr. Shiva Kant Mishra, Dr. Santhosh J Abraham and Dr. G Siddesh.Since then, in the last 5 years, our Association has moved from strength to strength with the help of a stable central leadership, ready to devote time and energy to the Association.I consider myself lucky to inherit a stable system, duly passed over to me by my predecessor, Dr. Sanjay Jain, free from litigation with impetus on our primary objective of Academics and Social Service to society.Numerous national programmes of the ASI have been initiated or strengthened with the help and guidance of my Governing Council members, who have worked tirelessly to achieve my mission of the Vision'24 which I had promised to the membership in my vision document.
Source: Indian Journal of Surgery
Author: Probal Neogi
Language: English
Topic: History of Medical Practice
Subfield: Neurology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,590
OpenAlex ID: W4402621795