40th Annual Convention of AAPI in America to make every Indian proud
Jun 16, 2022
The goal is to provide equal health care opportunities to the people of both countries. - Says AAPI President Dr. Anupama Gotimukula
Hyderabad, Telangana Jun 15, 2022 (Issuewire.com) - President Dr. Anupama Gotimukula said in a statement that the 40th Annual Convention of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin will be held in San Antonio, Texas from June 23 to 26 in a way that every Indian should be proud of.
Those who went to America after studying medicine in India back in the early days for higher studies and research were subjected to various types of discrimination. She said that AAPI (American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin) was formed in the 1980s by a group of physicians to overcome the above and to live with dignity in the United States. Today, it stands as the backbone for millions of physicians in the United States. She also said that under her presidency, AAPI will bring pressure on the respective governments to provide better medical care to the people of India as well as America while working on their usual service programs.
Further, she said that 45 Monthly Virtual Webinars and CME programs were organized with the help of the Chicago Medical Society and Dr. Vemuri Murthy, Dr. Amit Chakrabarty, and Dr. Sagar Galwankar. She added that Financial Educational Sessions were held for the benefit of the members and likewise, they discussed with the help of Dr. Sunitha Kumari and her team equal opportunities and inequalities related to public health. She further said as part of legislative webinars AAPI with the help of Dr. Sumul Raval and Dr. Suresh Reddy spoke with the US lawmakers about the medicare payment cuts primarily faced by the American physicians currently besides immigration issues among mainly the green card blockage. Likewise, she said that as part of Women's Activities, a webinar was successfully conducted with the help of Dr. Seema Arora on the topics such as Domestic Violence Awareness, and Women's Health and Wellbeing, besides successfully bringing out the Scientific Journal of AAPI under the aegis of Dr. Bellamkonda and some other Editorial team members.
AAPI Service Programs
Anupama Gotimukula said that at the time of the spread of Omicron, and Delta viruses during the Covid Pandemic AAPI with its limited resources and the partnership of Local Chapters and Red Cross Societies conducted Blood Donation Camps and helped thousands of sufferers. As part of the " Adopt A Village" program in India, AAPI conducted diagnostic tests free of cost in 29 villages and created awareness among the sufferers and helped in accessing proper medical facilities within reach, and added that medical camps will have to be conducted in 25 more Villages.
She said that in India, AAPi donated 75,000 US Dollars to the Free for Life project under the Fight for Human Trafficking Program, as well as provided free cervical cancer vaccines to one hundred eligible women for cervical cancer prevention, second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in India. She said that as part of the Breast Cancer Awareness Program, free mammograms have been conducted in South Chicago.
She added that AAPI is going to announce at the St. Antonio Convention its proposed help through the H2H Foundation for which the legendary cricketer Padma Sri Sunil Gavaskar is the Chairman in the conduct of free surgeries to the poor children suffering from congenital heart diseases in India. In the context of Covid-19, she said that they have organized several service programs in the countries of India and America, and, they have primarily provided biochemical analyzers, ventilators, pulse oximeters, as well as oxygen plants.
She said that they are hosting the prestigious Annual Convention of AAPI (American Association of Physicians of Indian origin) in the city of San Antonio. She disclosed that at this convention they are going to bring pressure to bear upon the Indian Government to conduct every year cancer screening tests mandatorily for men and women over 50 years of age as part of Preventive Healthcare in India besides pushing for the promotion of disciplines such as Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics and others in all medical colleges.
, She said that under the leadership of Convention Chair Dr. Jayesh Shah, and CEO Venky Adivi all the departments are working hard to make the conference a success by working to their full potential. Co-chairs Dr. Rajiv Suri, Dr. Kiran Cheruku, Dr. Hetal Nayak, Dr. Shankar Sanka, Adviser Vijay Koli, Dr. Rajam Ramamurthy, Treasurer Dr. Aruna Venkatesh, Chief Operating Officers Ram Joolukuntla and Reddy Yeluru are working tirelessly for the success of the Convention.
Dr. Anupama said that some eminent personalities who are experts in various fields will be honored at the Convention. She disclosed that among the recipients are Dr. Soujanya Mohan, Chief Medical Officer, Texas Group, Prime Healthcare CEO Dr. Prem Kumar Reddy, cricket legend Dr. Sunil Gavaskar, eminent scientist Peter Jay Hotez, American Medical Association elect president Dr. Jack Resneck, National Drug Control Policy Director Dr. Rahul Gupta, and Ashtanga Yoga Param Guru R. Sharat Jois, Sadhvi Saraswathi Bhagavathi.
Media Contact
AJANTHA PUBLIC RELATIONS
8096982081
Madhapur, hyderabad
Source :ajantha public relations
This article was originally published by IssueWire. Read the original article here.
More News
South Korean students caught cheating with AI glasses to face prosecution from 2027
South Korea will file criminal complaints against students caught cheating on a national university entrance exam with smart glasses and toughen penalties for their use, a government official has said. Sales of smart glasses – which allow the wearer to shoot photos and videos and interact with an AI assistant among other abilities – are growing worldwide. But so is a backlash around the gadgets, including concerns over people being filmed without consent and their use by exam cheats. South...
Will diversifying fuel imports be enough to fix Indonesia’s energy shortfall?
Indonesia is looking beyond Singapore for petrol supplies as it seeks to reduce its dependence on a single source, but analysts say diversifying imports will do little to address the country’s fuel production shortfall without faster refinery modernisation and investment in alternative fuels. Indonesia has long sourced petroleum products from Singapore, including RON 90 petrol, which has a minimum octane rating of 90 and is marketed domestically as Pertalite. Singapore’s geographic proximity,...
Court Rejects Erin Patterson’s Appeal in Mushroom Murders Case
Judges took away the possibility of parole for an Australian woman, Erin Patterson, and rejected a bid to overturn her conviction over a deadly beef Wellington lunch.
Toxic online subcultures fuelling Asia’s school attacks
Recent school attacks across Malaysia have shone a light on a troubling trend of teenagers joining an online subculture that glamorises real-life killers, according to a prominent security analyst. Three violent incidents in Malaysian schools – in Kuching on October 21, Banting in July and Bandar Utama in October last year – could be linked to the True Crime Community (TCC), said Munira Mustaffa, founder of Kuala Lumpur-based security consulting firm Chasseur Group. In the Kuching case, the...
I Covered the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It Still Weighs on Me.
The day that changed modern China also taught me how to recognize true courage.
Amid brutal sell-off, what comes next for Google, Amazon and other Big Tech titans?
Soaring artificial intelligence revenues have failed to shield Intel, Amazon and Google’s parent company Alphabet from a brutal Wall Street sell-off, as their latest quarterly results deepened investor jitters over mounting capital spending and delayed returns. Intel plunged about 23 per cent in extended trading on Thursday, while Amazon shed 7.3 per cent. Alphabet tumbled 12.6 per cent during the regular session in its worst day on record, dragging the Nasdaq Composite down 1.4 per cent and...
New ‘Call of Duty’ Game Draws Criticism for Using Footage of Deadly Seoul Crowd Crush
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 uses actual visuals from a Halloween crowd crush in South Korea, in which over 150 people died in a narrow alleyway.
Can the U.S. Defense Industry Keep Pace with China’s Military Machine?
A quarterly index offers a way to find out.
Saviour or stopgap? Malaysia’s South Korean jets arrive to relieve ageing fighters
Malaysia received its first South Korean-made light combat jet on Friday under a nearly 4 billion ringgit (US$990 million) procurement, in what analysts describe as welcome relief for an ageing air force still years away from replacing its frontline fighters. The FA-50M Block 20 jet arrived at the air force base in Labuan, off Borneo, with a second expected in Kuantan on the peninsula’s east coast next Monday. They are the first of 18 aircraft ordered from Korea Aerospace Industries under a deal...
Indonesia’s wildfire smoke crisis claims over 3,500 lives in September
Pollution from smoke emitted by months of wildfires across Indonesia caused an estimated 3,560 deaths in the vast Southeast Asian archipelago in September, according to a new study. The same month, about 57.8 million people in Indonesia were inhaling unhealthy to hazardous air, said the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), a Helsinki-based think tank. “Worsening air quality due to forest and land fires in Indonesia pushed the estimated death toll to 3,560 cases in September 2026,...
How the Japanese Spy Drama ‘Vivant’ Became The Target of China’s Anger
“Vivant,” a Japanese thriller that features Chinese spies, has drawn intense criticism from Beijing. Its creators defend the show, saying it is “completely fictional.”
How One Country Became the Unlikely Crossroads of the Global A.I. Boom
In Malaysia, U.S. and Chinese tech giants are pouring billions into vast data centers, straining local resources and testing the limits of Washington’s restrictions on advanced chips.
YOUR NEWS, OUR NETWORK.
Do you have Great News you want to tell the world?
Be it updates about your business or your community, you can make sure that it’s heard by submitting your story to our network reaching hundreds of news sites across 6 verticals.