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State IMA president Dr YS Deshpande will be the guest of honour.The conference will begin with a workshop on basic life support training. Debates on ‘Dixit vs Divekar diet’, ‘MeToo campaign’ and group practice in medical profession will be held. Nagpur: A host of issues concerning medical profession and citizens will be discussed at the 16th annual conference of the Nagpur chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) to be held at its North Ambazari Road facility from October 19 to 21.The event will be formally inaugurated by Maharashtra minister of state for home (urban) Dr Ranjeet Patil at 5pm on October 20. On October 20, a lecture on measles and rubella vaccination programme will he held, besides others. Paper and poster presentation, the late professor Dr Kishor Taori Oration and HIV workshop will also be held.Dr Ashish Disawal, president of IMA, Nagpur, said a panel discussion will be held on October 21 to ponder over the fate of small nursing homes.The panellists comprise medicos and non-medicos.Sessions on robotic surgery, management of arthritis, trends in drug delivery system and management of cardiac failure will be held on October 21..