I am deeply honored and humbled to address you as the newly elected president of our esteemed one and the only Nepalese medical professional organization in Australasia - ANMDA "Australasian Nepalese Medical and Dental Association". As I step into this role, I am filled with a sense of duty and excitement to serve all our Nepalese medical fraternities practicing medicine / dentistry across various health institutes across Australasia and also those eager to get enrolled into Australasian health systems.

First and foremost, I want to express my gratitude to each and every one of you for entrusting me with this responsibility. Your support and confidence inspire me to lead with vision, integrity, and dedication. I would like to sincerely thank the outgoing executive committee for their outstanding job esp. in increasing ANMDA membership plus an overall growth of ANMDA as an organisation. I am very glad to announce that with recent appointment of Dr Jyoti Baskota in the vacant position of NSW Coordinator, we now have a complete quorum in our new executive committee. For details re the new exe-com, please use this link anmda agm 2023 Elects New Committee - Australasian Nepalese Medical and Dental Association

Taking ANMDA forward

As we embark on this journey together, I am committed to upholding the values and principles that define our organization. Our mission is to bring all Nepalese doctors scattered across the vast land of Australasia into one umbrella of ANMDA, create an environment of mutual help, social networking, and collaboration. I envision a future where we continue to broaden ties among each other despite geographical vastness of the country, expand our platform and organisation as a whole so that we could confidently extend our helping hands to new coming doctors who aspire to pursue their career in Australian health system. By working together, we can make a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and communities we serve. We are already in the process of collaboration with our sister organisations in the UK - www.ndauk.org for joint educational activities and also for possible collaborative works in Nepal.

To achieve our goals, collaboration and communication will be paramount. Talking about communication - I would like to sincerely apologise for the delay on my part for communicating with you since my election. In my defense, I should say I didn't have access to our group emails until recently. I would like to assure you that from now on I will be regularly updating you about our forthcoming activities, educational and social programmes, meetings etc which will also be uploaded in our website www.anmda.org.au. The website itself is going to get redesigned / restructured in coming months to make it more user friendly as well as with more educational contents uploaded esp. for the benefit of new coming Nepalese doctors in Australasia.

I have taken the liberty of sending you emails, following the tradition of what my predecessor had been doing. If for any reason, any of you feel this email is unsolicited/ undesired/unwanted, would like to apologise in advance for that. I would really appreciate if you could kindly let me know if that is your intention to unsubscribe and I will remove you from my mailing list.

Being part of ANMDA for the past 2-3 years I sensed that, among our members as well as among Nepalese medical fraternities in general, ANMDA did not seem to connect well, or be listened to well. I encourage each of you to actively engage in our organization's activities, share your ideas, and contribute your expertise.

Once we re-design our website, our subscribers would be able to post comments/suggestions/feedbacks. Your feedback, suggestions, and concerns are invaluable as we shape the future of our organization Also, we have decided to circulate regular ANMDA newsletter in emails every quarter for all our email subscribers. Our current general secretary will ensure that newsletters are compiled on time and circulated to all subscribers. I am committed to keeping you informed about our progress, challenges, and successes every step of the way.

As there seems to be some confusion among Nepalese community I diaspora about our organisation's structure, I just wanted to take this opportunity to clarify here that ANMDA is a "not for profit", "non-political" association. In fact, we have zero tolerance to politics in our organisation. ANMDA is composed of medical and dental professionals practicing and intending to practice in the Australasian region. And being a professional organisation, does not come under the umbrella of any community organisations like FeNCAA. As you all must be knowing that this organisation is propelled purely with voluntary hard work from all professionals who all have their own busy medical practice/jobs. I would like to sincerely thank all members in our executive committee who have dedicated their precious time in running this organisation.

I would like all members to encourage their fellow Nepalese doctors in their workplace/organisation to encourage to join ANMDA in our venture, spread the good word about our organisation and come to become part of us please. We already revised membership fees 2 years ago as $100 per two years for general membership and $5 per two years for associated membership (for non-practicing newcomer doctors). Those who are already members please kindly renew your membership every two years please. Also, Nepalese doctors who intend to come to Australasia to pursue career here, can become our associate member and take the advantage of all learning materials in our website and also get tangled in our regular online educational activities which will help them in getting acquainted with Australasian health system which in turn will help their chance of securing job in this country. Please just spread the good word to our homeland and keep visiting our website to learn about our forthcoming activities. We are in fact in the process of creating a calendar for the whole year and post it on our website soon.

In closing, I am honoured to serve as your president and look forward to the journey ahead. As promised, I will keep you updated on further developments in my future emails.