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XVIII Annual meet of Medico- Friends Circle (MFC), December 27- 29, 1995, Yatri Nivas, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra

Theme:Ethics in health care.

MFC invites all interested individuals, groups, or-ganisations and institutions to participate. If you’d like to help in the planning of this meeting, please join our adhoc organising committee. We invite background papers, articles, reports, notes and case studies on any topic relevant to the theme of the meet.

We propose to discuss, among other issues, the following:

• the making and implementation of health policies
• population control and family planning, research on and use of various contraceptives
• disaster management (as in Bhopal, Latur)
• experiments, innovations in low cost primary health care delivery by non-governmental-organi- sations (NGO)
• technology, end stage disease, organ transplantation
• mental health care
• AIDS
• cost of health care and doctors’ fees
• any other relevant topic.

During this meet a creche-cum-camp for children will be organised on all three days. Participants are encouraged to bring their children along.

For more information contact:

Ravi Duggal,
Convenor,
Medico Friend Circle,
4/408 Vahtuk Nagar,
Amboli,
Andheri West,
Bombay 400 058.
Tel/Fax: (91)(022) 621 0145.