NDA Journal 2021

GENERALSECRETARY’SREPORT 2020-2021 NDA UK Annual General Meeting News. For the first time since NDA UK was established in 1985, our annual residential AGM has had to be cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic. The AGM has now been rescheduled for the last weekend in July 2021 and its sure to be extra special to make up for the lost AGM this year. Please save the date and try not to plan holidays etc then. Our AGM however will take place on Saturday 25th July at 10:30 am as a Zoom meeting and all NDA members and family will be invited. I will be emailing you all soon with login details and hope to see as many of you as possible at the AGM. NDA Website & Social Media The past year gone has seen great strides made by NDA UK with IT. Behind the scenes, our unsung hardworking members of the executive team IT experts Dr. Donna Shrestha, Mr. Shekhar Shrestha and Dr Prajwal Ghimire have made huge progress in presenting NDA UK to the big wide world. More to follow in the journal, but the key achievements are: • Creation of a brand new website which we now maintain and are in total control of. • Regular and interactive NDA facebook page. • Our Instagram account which is becoming more popular with our millennials. • Twitter account. We do hope you all find these resources useful and look forward to interacting with as many of you as possible through them. NDA UK Annual General Meeting News Once again for the second year running the annual residential AGM scheduled for end of July 2021 has fallen victim to the pandemic and has had to be put back another year. However, we are having a virtual 3 day AGM this year held via zoom. Details will be sent out soon via emails & social media platform. All NDA members and family are welcome. It was a great event by Dr Chintamani Yogi - which helped us to understand more on peace, humanity and spirituality. It was extremely useful for our mental well being on these very difficult times of COVID 19 pandemic. Other Membership Activities Social activities have largely not taken place due to the pandemic. There were a few however. There was a zoom Christmas quiz and a talk on personal transformation in the form of a webinar by Dr. Chintamani Yogi in March 2021. A refreshing change was the showing of the Belmaya documentary film detailed previously in the charity section. Support for International Medical Graduates and junior doctors NDAUK are pleased to have been able to help many of our young Nepalese doctors in guiding them through the PLAB examinations. We are delighted to see quite a few of them have now started their careers within the UK setting. These include Drs Jeewan Khadka, Orja Shrestha, Suzani Shrestha, & Sneha Bisht amongst others. I would like to give a huge thanks to all those, and specially our joint secretary Dr. Donna Shrestha for organising a careers session for the IMGs, as well as Prof Rajbhandari for his experienced input. This was very well received and helped our IMGs. Additionally, NDA UK did donate £500 to the junior doctors in Nepal at the frontline for treating COVID patients, requesting some financial support. NDA UK JOURNAL, JULY 2021