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Following independence of India, Primary Health centres emerged on the basis of the recommendation of the Bhore committee (1946). With the expanding public health programmes and the nation building activities, people of the country are now expected to better realize the dictum “Prevention is better than cure”. With such a short history, modern public health as a science or service is still young in India and the need for an All India Association of Public Health was not actually thought of until the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health was established at Calcutta. However, with the re-designation of Medical Services as Health Services and Establishment of Ministry of Health Services and establishment of Ministry of Health (now Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) at the Central and State Levels, the situation turned favourable for the establishment of the Indian Public Health Association as an all India body. It was inaugurated in 1956, the same year when the society for Medical Officers of Health in England celebrated their first centenary and the American Public Health Association was running 84th Year and the Canadian Association 46th year of their establishment.

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Condemnation of heinous rape and murder of a lady doctor in RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata and demand for swift justice

 
The Indian Public Health Association (IPHA) has been deeply shocked by the  heinous rape and murder of a lady doctor at the R G Kar Medical College & Hospital. We pray for the departed soul and offer our heartfelt condolences to her parents and family members.
The IPHA unequivocally joins the healthcare fraternity and the civil society at large in condemning the incident and demanding a swift, impartial and effective inquiry with judicial oversight that should lead to exemplary punishment. We are also troubled by the administrative responses in the immediate aftermath of the incident and related developments where peaceful protestors have been harmed by unidentified mobs and parts of the hospital vandalised.
The IPHA leadership has sent six petitions to the President of India, Prime Minister of India, Home Minister of India and Health Minister of India as well as the Governor of West Bengal and Chief Minister of West Bengal demanding swift justice.
We shall continue to be part of the larger protests and movements in demand for justice and a corruption and crime free workplace.
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