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Assalamualaikum
and
Happy Eid Greetings!!!
Prof. Haseena Khan,
General Secretary, BSBMB
I seize this opportunity in wishing
everyone a warm greeting for Eid-ul-Fitr. I hope this auspicious time
of the year will bring happiness in all our lives. We especially wish
our President, Professor Harun Kader Yusuf a speedy recovery. We hope
he will soon be well enough to be among us to guide us through. Our
prayers are also with Professor Apala F. Naved, general member of the
Society. We hope that she maintains her good health.
After a long
spell of inactivity the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
is slowly coming out of its dormancy. However I can assure you that the
EC members of the Society had been active with a number of issues
relating to the well-being of our graduates/members. I take this
occasion in announcing a few of our recent and future activities.
The present
government has prepared a draft health policy and sought feed back on
the policy. The EC members of the Society met to prepare a response. As
our rejoinder we have asked the government to recruit a biochemist in
every upazila health complex in order to achieve the government's goal
of taking heath care to every door step. According to the draft policy
the government wants to take preventive steps in reducing malnutrition
related health complications. We have therefore asked for a position of
nutritionist/biochemist in these health complexes which could be
associated with primary schools in order to provide nutrition related
advice to children and their mothers. We have also requested the
inclusion of our Society in different committees of the health
ministry. In order to generate employment opportunities of our
graduates we have asked for support/incentive of local manufacture of
diagnostic kits.
Only recently we
have also met the Honourable Minister for Health and Family Welfare
regarding the discrimination faced by our graduates in different
work-places, especially in the diagnostic centres. We were given a
patient hearing by the minister. It may be mentioned that the
state-minister for health was also present in the meeting. Both the
ministers were convinced that there should not be any problem with
Biochemists signing the biochemical reports.
Soon after this
meeting we were approached by Popular Diagnostic and our intervention
was requested. In a letter to Popular Diagnostic, the Pathological
Society of Mymensingh had threatened to boy-cot them if they continue
to allow Biochemists to sign biochemical reports. In this back drop
Popular Diagnostics sought our help. We have written to the aforesaid
society in Mymensingh about our meeting with the ministers for Health
and Family Welfare and what the ministers have said about the
eligibility of biochemists in signing biochemical reports. We sincerely
hope that our intervention will be seen as a force behind our
graduates/members and will deter anyone in the future from denying our
graduates of their rights.
You will be
happy to know that the Society is arranging an international symposium
in January 2010. We have applied to IUBMB (International Union of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) for financial support for
organizing this event. We expect to have at least two renowned
scientists from Japan as plenary speakers. The first circular for this
symposium will be announced soon. All are requested to keep an eye in
our Society website www. bdsbmb.org for further details.
We
have
another piece of good news to share with you. The executive body
of BSBMB had recently nominated me at no cost involvement of the
Society to attend the FAOBMB (Federation of Asian and Oceanian
Biochemists and Molecular Biologists) EC meeting held in August 02,
2009 in Shanghai, China. In this Shanghai meeting our request for
hosting a FAOBMB symposium was successful and we have been given the
privilege of hosting one such symposium in 2013. We would soon be
starting the organizational activity of this prestigious and important
event. The last and only FAOBMB symposium to be held in Bangladesh was
in 1991. We should utilize this opportunity in show-casing the advances
made by our researchers in the field of biochemistry and molecular
biology. Postings will be made in our web-site so please visit our
website regularly and give us your feed back.
All members are
requested to visit our website in order to check if your details in the
members’ list are correct. If not we request you to please provide us
with your latest information. Please also let us know if the name of
any member is missing from our list.
I also take this
opportunity of inviting through you, BMB graduates who are yet to be
members of the Society. Please note that in the next AGM to be held in
January 2010 we will be increasing the membership fees.
Wishing you all
the best once more.
-Prof. Haseena Khan, General Secretary, BSBMB
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