Indian doctors’ body elects new office-bearers

The Indian Doctors Club and Indian Medical Association (IMA Qatar), a forum of the Indian doctors in Qatar, have jointly elected their new office-bearers for the term 2012-14.The elections were held at the annual gathering of the two associations at the Holiday Villa recently. Dr K P Najeeb is the new president of the IMA. The other new office-bearers are Dr Sameer Moopan, Dr Johnny Kannampally, Dr Khudsiya Begum, Dr Susan George (vice-presidents), Dr Joyal Jacob Mathews, Dr Pareeth Rawther (general secretaries), Dr Maria Rana, Dr Manish Barman, Dr Joji Mathews, Dr Neeraj K (joint secretaries), Dr Ranjan Mathias (treasurer), Dr Rati Barman (cultural secretary), Dr Taffazul (sports secretary), Dr. Godwin (web and IT secretary), Dr Prajeesh, Dr Fuad Usman, Dr Khalid Sheriff and Dr Prasanna (executive members). The Scientific Committee will be headed by Dr Mohan Thomas and Dr Abraham Kollamana will head the membership committee.Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Indian Ambassador to Qatar, was the chief guest at the function and Dr Abdul Ghaffar, CEO, Behzad Pharmacy, was the guest of honour.The scientific session was led by International Speaker Dr David Rajan, Director, Orth One, Coimbatore, India.The meeting also witnessed the release of identity cards for the members. Dr Mohan Thomas presented the first ID card to Wadhwa who is also the patron of the association. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, who is leaving the country shortly as the envoy to Japan, was also honoured at the meeting. Dr K C Chacko presented her with a memento.The association also bid farewell to out going president Dr. Krishna Kumar.Dr Joji Mathews proposed a vote of thanks.