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Dr Sujeeth was delighted to attend and be part of the delegation to welcome Indian Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs, Shrimathi Nirmala Sitharaman to California. Accompanying her was Indian Ambassador to US, His Excellency Taranjit Singh Sandhu.   She spoke eloquently on idea to invite US Universities to set up campuses in GIFT Cities, initiatives on MSME’s and the strong adoption of Digital payments in India. A big thank you to San Francisco Consul General Hon’ble Dr TV Nagendra Prasad and his team who made this possible!

When the largest democracy in the world, India celebrates the 75th Independence Day, the world embraced the idea with the tricolor flag being displayed on landmark buildings like Empire state building in New York, Burj Khalifa in Dubai etc. San Francisco is no exception as the Mayor London Breed’s Office in the Historic City Hall, Rotunda opened its doors for the SFO Consul General Dr Nagendra Prasad, his staff and its invitees! Had the honor of attending this ceremony on this historic occasion. Two largest democracies had to be natural partners!!

Leadership of OGKTMA and AAPI met Honorable Health Minister of Telangana Shri Harish Rao garu for over an hour. He mentioned government programs already rolled out or being rolled out in terms of Diabetes and Hypertension screening to arrest organ damages that they are seeing in young individuals. The points that we were able to impress upon from the topics discussed were- Increasing Emergency Medicine PG seats from current 3 institutions (NIMS and 2 Kamineni hospitals) to many more especially, immediately in Osmania Gandhi and Kakatiya Medical colleges, due to the complete infrastructure present already. Introducing some Kind of mandatory basic CPR training for High School graduation. Quoted countries like Norway and Denmark. He encouraged us to adopt medical colleges for the student’s upliftment in academics. We appraised him about what we are going to start in Kakatiya medical college- Monthly CME webinars, Mentoring students in Research and increasing research activities