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The Vatakara branch of IMA is one of the most active branches of the Indian medical Association of kerala state .It has a glorious history of outstanding contributions to the medical fraternity and to the community for more than four decades The vadakara branch (Originally badagara) was formed on 28th march 1971. DR Jamaludheen Mailanchi, Dr.P.P. Balakrishna, Dr. T. V.N.Nambiar DR. K. chacko,Dr.K.C.Pavithran and DR. P.V.George where the doctors who gave leadership in organising Vatakara IMA.This meeting elected Dr.P.P.Padmanabhan as the founder President and Dr.K.K.Muhammed as the secretetary.There were 22 members to begin with The Vatakara branch was officially inaugurated on 22 and August 1971 by the then president of ima, kerala state branch Dr.T.A.Kesavan Nair.Since its inception,the office bearers and members of successive years have shouldered great responsibility in carrying out IMA activities in a splendid way and brought name and fame to this branch sacrificing their precious time and energy. They deserve recognition for the yeoman Services that they have memedered.At present IMA Catamaran has 300 members.
Dr.Jyothikumar.K (President),Dr.Bijunesh (secretary)),and Dr.Vinodkumar( Treasurer)are the present office bearers
IMA building.
Vatakara IMA has its own building at the heart of the town in 16 cents of land.
A building committee was formed during the year1991- 92 with Dr.A.K.Rajan as chairman and president & secretary of corresponding year as the ex officio members. Dr.V.M.Kunhimoosa,Dr.T.A.Sreenivasan,Dr.Sachidanandan,Dr.C.Prakash,Dr.C.Vijayaraghavan, Dr.KM.Abdulla and Dr.K.M.DamodaraPanickerwere the members. 16 cents of land was purchased on 27 .04 1994 when Dr.A.T.Vijayan was President and Dr.K.Mummed was the secretary.Foundation stone was layed on 25 6 1995 by Dr.U.V Seethi, then IMA Kerala state president. IMA hall was inaugurated by former National president of IMA Dr.V.C.Velayudhan on 3rd May 1998 .President Dr.T.A Sreenivasan and Dr. Premanand( secretary) spend the time and energy with devotion and determination in fulfilling the dream project.Latter modifications were made by constructing an executive hall in the first floor,dining hall and office room. Now the IMA hall is the epicenter of all activities of the branch
Activities of IMA badagara
A) Academic activities
- conducted clinical meetings /CM every month regularly
- Seminar/panel discussion on various health topics
diabetes communicable diseases, heart diseases, Lifestyle diseases ,eradication of TB,
renal disease, organ transplantation, drug addiction &de addiction learning disabilities . - workshop on ECG /insulin therapy / BLS
- Mega CME "PULSE 2018 " for General practitioners in 2018. It was one of the best conference IMA has ever Conducted
- Mega state level cme on infectious disease INFECON2015 and INFEZION 2019
- Mega one day CME dedicated on cardiology,EMERGE 2016/ Corazone_2018
- Mega one day state level cme to enrich basics Basicon 2016-2017 in Association with IMA AMSand CM Academy.
- Observed World Health Day ,Doctors day,Diabetic Day,heart day and environment day
A) Social Activities
- Free clinic at Thazhe angadi(1981-85). Leprosy clinic in 1976
- Screening camps for detection of diabetes, renal diseases, life style diseases, heart diseases,skin diseases were conducted in association with voluntary organizations
- Health education classes on AIDS,fevers like Dengue, Nippa, corona etc, renal, cardiac, diabetic diseases and family planning.
- Several blood grouping and immumization camps conducted
Organisational
conducted the NORTH ZONE CONFERENCE OF IMA in Connection with the silver Jubilee of the branch 1995 with good participation, useful CME and variety entertainments published a souvenir also. Dr.T.A.Sreenivasam was the editor
Conducted the 10th North Zone conference ''KALARI''(2004).
IMA CGP/IMA AMS were inaugurated. Dr C.K Anandan was the Chairman.Dr.C.M.Ansar was the editor of the Souvenir 52nd IMA state conference was hoisted by Vadagara Branch on 13th, 14th, and 15th of November 2009 at Gokulam Public School. This mega event was well appreciated by the state leaders and doctor community.Dr.C.Vijayaraghavan(Chairman),Dr.K.M Abdullah (secretary )andDr.A.T.Vijayan(treasurer) were the office bearers of the great event.A Souvenirs was published in connection with this conference.Dr.A.K.Rajan was the editor
IMA protested against assault on doctors and hospitals
Took part in the ''Delhi Chalo'' March organised by National ''IMA'' on 6th June 2019 to protest against Hospital attack.Dr Abdullah,Dr.Subhash and Dr Thomas Godric represented the branch
WOMAN DOCTOR'S WING (WDW)
Woman Doctor's Wing of Vadagara was inaugurated by Dr.P A Lalitha ,the then chairperson of Kerala State branch of women's wing.Dr.Jeena Baburaj was the founder Chairperson and Dr Shasikala Muraleedharan was the secretary and Savithri Hariprasad was the treasurer Women's wing organised a lot of programs bringing the family members closer and create a homely atmosphere with in the organisation. They supported all the cultural activities of the branch. Woman Doctors wing ofVatakara branch of IMA was recognised as the third best wdw branch of Kerala state in 2019. Dr.Amrutha was the president and Dr.Anuji Supran was the secretary during this period.
Arts club
Arts club was inaugurated by the famous singer Shri VT Murali.Dr.V.R.Suresh was the president and Mrs Dolly Saseendran was the secretary.The arts club along with womens wing presented many memorable cultural events. The programmes presented during Christmas and New Year Eve were fully telecast by the local television channel.Arts club members participated in state level cultural events of IMA.
*Arts club conducts music and dance classes for the doctors and family members
Sports
Conducted Karate and yoga classes
A shuttle court was provided
An indoor Table Tennis table provided.
Took part in inter branch cricket tournaments
Written by Dr. A. K. Rajan
