Dr Ketan Desai becomes World Medical Association President

Thanks to Asian medical community’s support, President of Medical Council of India (MCI) Ketan Desai was unanimously elected president of the World Medical Association (WMA) during the three-day general assembly session of WMA in New Delhi where delegates and representatives from 94 countries across the globe participated.

Desai who belongs to Navsari in south Gujarat is not only the first Gujarati to hold this prestigious position, but the first Indian also.

WMA is an international organisation representing physicians founded on September 17, 1947, when physicians from 27 different countries met at the first general assembly of the WMA in Paris.

WMA provides a forum for its member associations by holding general assembly, council meetings, and seminars on various health care topics to communicate freely, to cooperate actively, to achieve consensus on high standards of medical ethics and professional competence, and to promote the professional freedom of physicians worldwide.