Dear Friends,

At the outset and on behalf of Team BOGS 2025-2026, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all our members and their loved ones.

I am sure, you are aware by now that BOGS has got a newly elected managing committee in place on 25th July 2025. I am deeply honoured and profoundly grateful to accept the responsibilities as President of the Bengal Obstetric & Gynaecological Society for next one year. I would like to thank you for electing a very able, efficient and confident team with me who are capable of taking BOGS to different heights.

This year, the Theme of team BOGS has been chosen as “Saving Women’s Lives-From Awareness to Action”. True to the theme we are committed to take women’s health benefits to the underprivileged girls and women in the community. Parallel to our regular academic activities we have a big project of public health initiatives. The entire public health initiatives has been planned for the socioeconomically underprivileged section of the society and would be delivered free of cost to the beneficiaries. Our plan includes Cervical Cancer screening by HPV DNA Tests and Breast cancer screening by mammography for 1000 women. Anaemia screening for 1000 women and girl and their treatment as well as Thalassaemia screening for more than 500 girls is another priority area. In addition to these we will also be addressing perimenopausal health by BMD Screening and treatment of Osteoporosis, Adolescent health awareness camp in different schools and colleges including menstrual hygiene and PCO awareness. However, our signature project would be to provide 2500 doses of HPV Vaccination to girls and women in socioeconomically weaker section of the society.

On the academic front like every year, we will have eight orations, Prof Subhash Mukherjee Memorial Lecture, Different subcommittee programmes, our Annual Conference BOGSCON and YUVACON. Additionally BOGS in association with IAGE Bengal Chapter will organise IAGE national Conference (ENDOGYN) in Kolkata in March 2026. We have also planned a standalone daylong workshop & CME on Gynaecological Cancer, a series of ‘Safe Abortion Workshops’ in the districts and Obstetric skill workshops for Postgraduates in different Medical Colleges.

The new committee has planned a completely new set of programmes. We understand BOGS managing committee alone could not complete the mammoth public health project and therefore, we are collaborating with different non-BOGS organisation including Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, six Rotary clubs and different other NGOs.

However, we need your active support and help towards the success of our dream Public Health project. If You are interested to participate in any of our academic programme or want to get involved in our public health programme, my team and I will be just one phone call away. It is our BOGS and together we need to take it forward.

Stay connected and stay well!

God Bless BOGS!

M M Samsuzzoha