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BSBMB Updates
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
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