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These are exciting times for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Major advances during the past decade in
the field have enhanced our understanding and significantly influenced the management and outcome of
many of these chronic and fatal diseases affecting children. Achieving the gold standard of care for children
patients should be our goal. Given the realistic situation under which we function, and due to the major
sociocultural and economic hurdles this ideal may seem a utopian goal. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that
we can achieve together much more than we alone can do. There are many novel adaptations that we could
adopt in our clinic practice and management guidelines that would benefit a large chunk of patients. Training,
I think, is the cornerstone for this progress!
The PHO Chapter of IAP has been in the forefront of IAP activities leading in many ways—publication
on anemia in children, pediatric hematology and oncology; parent education booklet on ALL, hemophilia,
thalassemia; publishing management guidelines on sickle cell disease, ITP, blood component therapy national
training programs on pediatric oncology; publication of PHO newsletter; promoting subspecialty fellowship
training; preparing teaching slide sets on CD; Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, website—phoindia.org,
etc.
Training in Practical Pediatric Hematology (NTP-PPH) is the latest venture of PHO chapter program for
training in practical pediatric hematology will be kicked off in January 2006 at Gurgaon, Haryana, India. This
will be a 2 days course in intensive practical training for pediatricians and postgraduates. The launch of this
program has been a dream come true for many of us who have waited for long to make this happen. This
unique idea and process of training pediatricians in practical aspects of Pediatric Hematology will instantly
raise the standards of care provided to children suffering with hematological disorders throughout the country.
I take this opportunity to thank Dr Nitin K Shah, President IAP 2006, to adopt this program under the
IAP Action Plan 2006 and provide us this important platform to spread our message with very wide visibility
also acknowledge the massive contributions of our dynamic honorary secretary and the National Co-ordinator
of NTP-PPH, Dr Anupam Sachdeva.
Hope you enjoy reading this interesting manual and send us your feedback for its improvement in the
future. These are exciting times for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Major advances during the past decade in
the field have enhanced our understanding and significantly influenced the management and outcome of
many of these chronic and fatal diseases affecting children. Achieving the gold standard of care for children
patients should be our goal. Given the realistic situation under which we function, and due to the major
sociocultural and economic hurdles this ideal may seem a utopian goal. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that
we can achieve together much more than we alone can do. There are many novel adaptations that we could
adopt in our clinic practice and management guidelines that would benefit a large chunk of patients. Training,
I think, is the cornerstone for this progress!
The PHO Chapter of IAP has been in the forefront of IAP activities leading in many ways—publication
on anemia in children, pediatric hematology and oncology; parent education booklet on ALL, hemophilia,
thalassemia; publishing management guidelines on sickle cell disease, ITP, blood component therapy national
training programs on pediatric oncology; publication of PHO newsletter; promoting subspecialty fellowship
training; preparing teaching slide sets on CD; Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, website—phoindia.org,
etc.
Training in Practical Pediatric Hematology (NTP-PPH) is the latest venture of PHO chapter program for
training in practical pediatric hematology will be kicked off in January 2006 at Gurgaon, Haryana, India. This
will be a 2 days course in intensive practical training for pediatricians and postgraduates. The launch of this
program has been a dream come true for many of us who have waited for long to make this happen. This
unique idea and process of training pediatricians in practical aspects of Pediatric Hematology will instantly
raise the standards of care provided to children suffering with hematological disorders throughout the country.
I take this opportunity to thank Dr Nitin K Shah, President IAP 2006, to adopt this program under the
IAP Action Plan 2006 and provide us this important platform to spread our message with very wide visibility
also acknowledge the massive contributions of our dynamic honorary secretary and the National Co-ordinator
of NTP-PPH, Dr Anupam Sachdeva.
Hope you enjoy reading this interesting manual and send us your feedback for its improvement in the
future.