MY FOGSI SPEECH AT JAIPUR JAN 2009

2008 The FOGSI year that was.....
Dear FOGSIANS,
Namashkar & Greetings and regards to all of you for a very happy & prosperous
2009.

Addressing DIAS : Dignatories on Dias – Hon. Health Minister of Rajasthan, Dr. C.
N. Purandare President 2009, Dr Adarsh Bhargava, Dr Mridul Gehlot, incoming
Vice Presidents & my Team members.
At the outset let me thank you for supporting me as your president for 2008 and for
standing by me, with me for all the activities of 2008.
I congratulate the organizers for the wonderful AICOG 2009 arrangements.
The year 2008 is dedicated to my mother Dr Prabha Malhotra and my family, who
have been my inspiration and to all the Indian mothers for whom we FOGSIANS are
working to fill their life with health and happiness.

It has been a tough and rough road.
2008 has been a very eventful year and all of you FOGSIANS have contributed to its
success. I wish to congratulate each one of you for understanding FOGSI SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY and for working towards a goal of Safe Mothers and Beti
Bachhao, Beti Padao.
“I bid you adieu”
Remember me a little then.....

FOGSI year 2008 has been a year of mixed feelings for me.
As I hand over this baton to my good friend Dr. C. N. Purandare. I am sad and I am
happy at the same time.
On 6th Feb., I took over as President of this wonderful organization FOGSI, the
largest organisation of gynaecologists in the world, spread over 202 (205 to be
precise) societies and has over 23,000 members. The day 6th Feb. at Delhi was a very
emotional day for me, with my mother my inspiration not being able to come due to
serious illness and with the weather GODS making it a chilling experience literally
and the rain GODS spilling some tears on me. Whether that rain was a Good omen or
not I have yet to understand.
I still say
Life is a dance
has twists and turns.
Ups & downs
some spins dips,
and quick steps
and GOD is the choreographer
and to have a balance
all ups and downs
must be welcome
Life still plays games and takes exams.

FOGSIANS on 6th Feb, 2008, you entrusted me to lead FOGSI for a year (11
months) and I remembered the words of Andre.
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shores".
From that day I did lose sight of my safe shores, my family, my hospital, my patients,
my social friends in Agra all suffered my absence as I like a possessed mad man
buried into FOGSI and well being of women of India. At the outset I have to thank all
these people for bearing with my idiosyncratic ideas and eratic behavior. Thank you
family, thank you all for coming here, thank you friends, thank you staff of Malhotra
Nursing & Maternity Home Pvt. Ltd., thank you patients, thank you Agraits for being
with me, behind me and Thank you my close friend Rajesh Surana. Special thanks to
Jaideep, Neharika & Keshav.
6th Feb., I was supposed to make promises and fulfill them also, but friends,
FOGSIANS, I told you that day
"I don't promise you the moon. I told you all that I can only promise that the
road in 2008 will not all be smooth."
You all gave me a big big canvas to paint, I had ideas of colors and you all as my brush
and we all together painted on this canvas.
The painting which we all made together is what I am going to unveil now, whether
it is good or not you have to decide.
Let us go through 2008.
Dr. Pankaj Desai graciously let me work in Jan and the FOGSI days were
established. FOGSI DAYS (A day) a month dedicated to FOGSI on various issues,
mainly social and you all did full justice to this call and now we proudly have these
days for you to be looked after by the joint secretary every year.
Today 5th Jan. is FOGSI FOUNDATION day, a day I dedicate to the elders and
from now on any one more than 75 year old FOGSIAN can attend AICOG free of
registration and each one will be honored by FOGSI in their local meetings.

FOGSI FLAG & SONG
I am happy and proud that our FOGSI flag and FOGSI song is now used by all our
societies in their meetings. This gives us a feeling of unity and oneness.
FOGSI THEME
2008 year was a year to Educate, Prevent and Eradicate
with the aims of making a New Indian Woman Healthier and Literate and for all this
we FOGSIANS have to go to the roots of India "Chalo Gaon Chale" was our call
and we went, you went and we did the historic FOGSI- ASTRA JAGRUTI YATRA
on the academic front FOGSI this year has done many projects :-
FETAL MEDICINE WORKSHOPS & SCHOLARSHIPS
We started the year with the Fetal Medicine workshop by Kypros Nicaloidis from
Fetal Medicine Foundation London and this workshop was glamourised by the
presence of Dr. Farrokh Abdulla and minister Renuka Choudhary. A historic MOU
was signed by FOGSI with FMF for 6 satellite workshops per year relayed from
London (Dr. Anita Kaul & Dr. Pratima looking after the local arrangements with the
Genetics & Fetal Medicine Committee). 2 young P.G. will be given a 2 month
scholarship to London all expenses paid. 2 young P.G. with GMC Rg will be given a
2 year. Diploma in fetal medicine with Kypros Nicoloides all expenses paid.
Satellite relay workshop at Hyderabad was a grand success.
VICE PRESIDENTS WORKSHOPS
Your 3 vice presidents have been very very active through out the year and we have
seen so many workshops all over the country on ovulation induction & minimal
access surgery by Sr. Vice President Dr. Prakash Trivedi, C-Section workshop and
Ankur programmes by Vice President Dr. Suchitra Pandit and preventive oncology
workshop and maternal mortality reduction registry by Vice President Dr. Hiralal
Konar. The 3 Vice Presidents have been present at all the four Yuva Congress at
Agra, Trichy, Malda and Kolahpur.
YUVA CONFERENCES
The Yuva Conferences have been a grand success with over 500 Yuva FOGSIANS
attending these conferences.
FOGSI THEME CONFERENCES
This year many conferences have been organised all over the country and this is a
good trend to have regional meetings so the audience does not have to travel long
distances and also small meetings means more personal interaction with experts.
FOGSI has organised 4 official conferences this year and 4 Yuva congress. FOGSI
RESEARCH conference at Gurgaon, High Risk Pregnancy in Pune, HIV-AIDS is
women at Nagpur and the President's conference on Mind & Body Connect aboard
the Super Star Virgo cruise.
UNICEF PARTNERSHIP
In April we signed a memorable MOU with UNICEF on the training of each and
every FOGSIAN specially private practitioners on managing HIV Pregnancies. This
3 year project is underway with Past President Dr. Alokendu and President Dr. C. N.
Purandare and the guidelines are out, with trainings started this month. We have
launched a HIV-AIDS PEP help line for you 09997177999, Dr. Alok Vashistha &
Laxmi Shirikhande have been instrumental for this. We are also providing a free
starter kit for all delegates from EMCURE counter here.
FOGSI's EMOC & FOGSI's
Safe Abortion Projects to train MBBS doctors in Basic Obstetric Care and to develop
standards & protocols for safe Abortion. Dr. Sadhna Desai, Dr. Prakash Bhatt, Mr.
Ajay Bhardwaj and Dr. Jaydeep Tank are doing great work on this front.
30 YRS OF ART
Celeberating 30 years of birth of Louise Brown at many places special meetings on
IVF and orations.
ANKUR
We also launched the ANKUR project on parenting in April at Pune and Vice
President Dr. Suchitra Pandit will be looking after this project. This is a unique
parenting educational programme.
ANEMIA ERADICATION
The 12 x 12 anemia eradication program is being taken forward as the 24 x 7 x 365.
FOGSI-EMCURE Anemia Eradication initiative and under this; major programmes
on Anemia have been launched in 10 states this year. Also a FOGSI FOCUS
dedicated to anemia with recommended clinical practice guidelines is being released
today.
E-FOGSI
FOGSI has become e-savy and a lot of communication has gone to our members via
e-mails. Our website is revamped, our song plays when you open the website, the
ICOG and the Journal have their own websites which are also very nicely done up.
All President & secretaries have a FOGSI email thanks to PK Shah & Maninder
Ahuja. FOGSI FOCUS will now be made available on the FOGSI Website.
OTHER SOCIETIES
FOGSI has been co-ordinating very closely with all allied sister & daughter
organisations like NARCHI, ISAR, ISPAT, ISOPARB, IMS, IAP, IFS, IAJAGO,
IAHR, IFUMB, ICMCH and ASPIRE and of course IMA.
PUBLICATIONS : The release of books at this congress tells you all about the
active involvement of FOGSI in bringing out publications. Our books are listed in
RCOG bookshop as recommended books. I am bringing to you a classic book today
on FOGSIANISM, this tells you all out FOGSI's past, present and future - a must
read for every FOGSIAN.
FOGSI TIMES : We have as promised given you 5 FOGSI TIMES this year.
FOGSI FOCUS : You all are in receipt of five FOGSI FOCUS this year on Fibroids,
combined Hormonal contraception, HIV in women, Anemia and Cancer cervix
prevention and on Ultrasound in Obs Gyn.
FOGSI DVD ROMS : We are sending you 5 FOGSI DVD ROMS on IUI,
Endometriosis, C-Section and FOGSI-Astra Bharat Jagruti Yatra. These are
available here also. These have been done by Dr. Pankaj Desai, Dr Prakash Trivedi
& Dr. Jaideep Malhotra.
FOGSI REGISTRIES : 3 registries were launched this year by FOGSI, the ART
registry has submitted its final report done by Dr. Sadhna Desai & Dr. Manish
Bankar, the birth defect registry is doing commendable work under Dr. S. Suresh
and the Maternal Mortality data is being collected by Dr. P. K. Shekharan. And Dr.
Hiralal Kumar ICOG has also launched Eclampsia registry which is doing great
work by bringing out the Eclampsia news by President Elect Sanjay Gupte and
Girija Vyas. I urge each member to come forward & help in the data collection.
Please visit the FOGSI projects stall in outer hanger.
FOGSI Committees : In 2008 committees were given guidelines to work on a
research project, publication & workshops. All the committees have worked more
than satisfactorily with the 26 chairpersons being very very active through out the
year. All targets and goals to these committees have been achieved. Many of them
are releasing books here and here initiated many multicentric research projects.
FOGSI SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY : Friends, FOGSIANS, I tried a little
different approach to women's problems in India and to eradicate WEEEEP, we
FOGSIANS undertook the FOGSI ASTRA Bharat Jagruti Yatra. In one month
25,000 kms were covered from Kanyakumari to Delhi, Leh to Srinagar covering 23
States, involving over 5000 of our members visiting 102 villages, holding 98
medical camps and addressing over 500 women at each stop. 102 societies
participated in this massive FOGSI ASTRA BHARAT JAGRUTI YATRA – all of
them did commendable work but those who need special mention here are Nalabar,
Silchar, Madurai, Nellore, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Trissur, Sawangi, Allahabad,
Bikaner, Lucknow, Kolkata, Muzzafarnagar. People who dedicated the full month to
this yatra Rajesh Surana, Shirish Patwardhan, Shirin Venkat, Maninder Ahuja,
Jaideep Malhotra, Anupam Gupta, Bhagwati Oza and Saubhagya Gupta.
The message that Indian woman is precious and Save the Girl Child was spread
throughout the country. The President of India was apprised of the Indian Problems.
We have just made a small beginning which is going to be carried forwards by the
next president Dr. C. N. Purandare. The Yatra stall has been put up here and if you
care for the Indian woman do visit the stall and sign your name. Visit our yatra stall &
sign your name if you wish to be a part of this movement.
We will be making this activity a permanent pre congress event and would be
initiating a permanent account to look after the yearly FOGSI YATRAS.
FOGSI & GIRL CHILD : FOGSI's logo this year was FOGSI daughter with
rainbow colored ribbons in her hairs. We have tried to paint VIBGYOR in our girl's
lives. FOGSI has produced a 50 min. documentary film on Save the Girl Child
“Main Janam Loongi” and we have launched a massive awareness campaign of
“FOGSI-LUPIN Save the Girl Child initiative”. I urge you please stay away from
female feticide and sex determination. Only your NO to this evil practice can make a
difference. We are fighting the draconian PCPNDT and the ART laws, but I want my
FOGSIANS to first put their house in order. I know all FOGSIANS are not involved
in Sex determination & fetiade but let us stop those who are doing this evil practice.
We also propogate 'Adopt a Girl' campaign with help from an NGO and I am
pleased to let you know that 2000 FOGSIAN adopted a girl child for education this
year. Raveena Tandon is our brand ambassador for this project and will be present
here tomorrow whole day with all of you. Do join the walk with Raveena tomorrow
at 3.00 p.m. from our stall in the outer hanger.
FOGSI and SAFOG, AOFOG & FIGO & RCOG : Our presence is felt in these
international organizations. Our members hold important posts and we have a say in
decision making in these world organizations. All these organizations are present
here today. Welcome to all the office bearers of these organizations. I hope you enjoy
your stay in Jaipur.
FOGSI & GOI : We have worked hard to get on the right side of the Govt. of India
and many a Public private partnerships have been initiated in 2008. GOI now invites
FOGSI to all decision making projects for women health.
CRUISE
My last project of the year was to have a meeting for you, your health, your life style.
400 FOGSIANS were at the Mind and Body Connect FOGSIANISM Cruise on
Super Star Virgo. For 3 days we disconnected from academics and concentrated on
YOGA, self defence, holistic approach, spiritual life style management and various
sports and extra circular activities. We had panel discussions on ageing gracefully
and financial managements. A highly appreciated and successful experiment which I
hope will carry on for years to come as official yearly president's conference.
Friends, FOGSIANS I am not here to say that I have completed all my promises and
all my targets. I have just made a humble beginning and will keep on working as a
grassroot FOGSIAN worker towards one GOAL, one TARGET.
Lets make a new Indian woman
healthier & literate

Jai Hind, Jai FOGSI
Narendra C Malhotra