HEALTH

Silver Oaks notches up another first
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 9
Silver Oaks Hospital at SAS Nagar has notched up another first for a private sector hospital in this part of the country by carrying a renal transplant operation on a critically ill patient.

The hospital has already carried out a neuro-surgery and established a licensed blood bank which can store up to 50 units, according to Dr Akhil Bhargava, Managing Director of the hospital. The renal transplant operation was carried out on Sunday on a 36-year-old patient, Mohinder, from a village near Kurukshetra. The kidney was donated by his sister, Gurdev Kaur (45). Both donor and recipients are doing fine.

Dr Bhargava said that renal transplant operations were being carried out in the PGI which was fully equipped for the job. But the waiting period for an operation extended up to eight months. The patient had to remain on dialysis in the meantime. In Silver Oaks the operation could be carried out within a few days of operation if the donor was available.

Refractive errors among school kids discussed
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, October 9
The magnitude of refractive errors among schoolchildren and the importance of it’s early treatment was discussed at a two-day workshop on ‘‘Training for Screening of Refractive Errors" which was inaugurated by Dr Rameshwar Chander, Director Health Services, UT, yesterday at Government Polyclinic in Sector 22 here. The vice-chairman of State Blindness Control Society (SBCS) was also present.

Stressing the need to prevent cracker and bow and arrow injuries which were a common happening among children on festivals like Divali and Dasehra, Dr Chander said that the schoolchildren in Chandigarh already suffered from a high rate of refractive error which was to the tune of 11 per cent.

Dr K S Rana, secretary, SBCS, informed the delegates that the purpose of this training was the early detection and early treatment of refractive errors by using spectacles which would be provided by the SBCS free of cost to poor and needy children.

Dr Jaspil Singh Gill, State Programme Officer, NPCB, informed the delegates that on the occasion of World Sight Day yesterday, a week-long programme for screening of schoolchildren of villages and colonies of UT for refractive errors would be launched by the Health Department from October 11. 

Workshop on cerebral resuscitation
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 9
A 10-day workshop on “Cardio-pulmonary cerebral resuscitation” was organised by the Nursing Department of the PGI at the Nehru Hospital. A spokesman of the PGI said the workshop was funded by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The main aim of the workshop , the spokesman said, was to bridge the gap between the knowledge and practice. Cardiac arrest is a situation which the nurses would not only encounter in the hospital but anywhere at any place and at any time where sophisticated equipments such as defibrillators, ambu bags and ventilators are not available. That is where the presence of mind and knowledge and practice works.

The workshop was started with an informal inauguration where the Chief Coordinator, Ms Daroj Parwez, Chief Nursing Officer, and five resource persons of the workshop interacted with the participants.

SPORTS

Pallavi outplays Gagandeep, clinches title
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 9
Pallavi Piplani clinched the girls sub-junior title when she outplayed Gagandeep Kaur in straight games at 20-12, 23-13 on the penultimate day of the XIth Chandigarh State Carrom Tournament played here today at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45. In junior girls doubles final, it was combination of Shikha Nanda and Nidhi who defeated Khushboo and Shabbun to bag the title.

The junior boys doubles title went in favour of Dhruva and Sumit who prevailed upon Taranpreet and Rahul Nanda at 25-16,12-25,25-18. In men’s section, the winners in today’s matches were, Sudhir Sidhu,Mohd Irshad, Sanjay Negi, Jagdish Dhir, Anu Papneja, Pankaj and Gagandeep. The men and women singles final will be played tomorrow at 2.30 pm.

Ludhiana bags title

Ludhiana bagged the third Ishwar Shriman Basketball Title when they overpowered Kotkapura at 50-30 with half time score of 28-20 in the final match of the Ishwar Shriman prize money invitational basketball meet played here today at IS Dev Samaj Girls Senior Secondary School here today. Mr Manpreet Badal, MLA, Punjab, was the chief guest and gave away the prizes.

In the final tie played this evening under floodlights, Ludhiana eves dominated right from the beginning but they were at times given anxious moments by Kotkapura girls who managed to narrow down the score in the first half. Finally, the Ludhiana girls who outplayed Chandigarh eves last evening, had star player Kamaljit who netted 21 baskets. Manpreet was the second best shooter with 12 points while Harpreet scored seven points. For losers, Surinder Kaur netted 10 points while Paramjit Kaur scored eight points.

Sports meet

St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, St John’s High School, Sector 26,GMSSS-19 and DAV Public School, Sector 8 entered the last four of the UT inter-School Basketball Meet for under-14 section played here today at GMSSS-33. In the inter-school football matches for under-17 section, GMSSS-22 defeated GMHS-28 at 4-1 while GMSSS-21 defeated GMSSS-19 at 3-0. In the inter-school handball matches for under-14 section, DAVSSS-8 defeated GMSSS-23 at 15-9,GMSSS-21 beat GMMMS-42 at 5-4,GNPS-36 b GMSSS-19 at 3-2 while GHS-24 beat SGGSSS-35 at 12-7.

In the inter-school hockey for under-14, St Stephens’-45 beat GMHS-44 at 3-1 while GMSSS-35 beat DAVSSS-8 at 1-0. In the under-17 section, SPS-41 beat GMHS-44 at 3-0 while SGGS-35 beat GMHS-36 at 1-0 and St stephen’s-45 b GMSSS-32 at 2-0. In kabaddi under-19 section, PMLSDP-32 b GSSS-45 at 36-05 while DAVSSS-8 b GSSS, Dhanas, at 45-42. In the under-14, GSSS, Dhanas, b GMHS-37 at 43-36, GHS, Kajheri b GHS, Sarangpur, 24-0, GHS-40 b GSSS, Maloya, at 28-02 while GHS-30 b GHS-28 at 58-43.

Player in distress

Khargadodom, a football player of Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, who has been selected for the Indian school football team as per selection trials held on October 7, is running from pillar to post for getting his passport ready. The said soccer player, who hails from North East, remained in touch with local passport authorities for the past few days who told that once his name was cleared for the national team, then only he could get his passport made.

The said player had already done his verification from respective authorities but at the last moment, when he went to meet the passport officer, he was told that his passport would not be issued from here. The boy also met the UT Administrator but of no avail. The school authorities when contacted were also in piquant situation as the Asian Schools Football Championship would be held from October 11 at Kuala Lumpur.

Tennis meet

Inayat Khosla, Ankita Singh, Hana Kumar and Gurleen Kaur sailed into the last four of the girls under-12 section of the Lake Club Open Tennis Tournament played here today at the Lake Club courts. In girls under-10 section, the eves who made it to the last eight were, Apurva, Palak Grewal, Anchal Sharma, Noor Paul, Shaleen Singh and Shradha Singh. In the under-14 girls section, Simer, Ghazal, Sonia Sharma and Chandni moved into next round while in under-16 section, Neha Singh, Amanpreet kaur, Inayat remained winners. In the boys under-14 section, Karan Patnaik, Sameer Sharma, Kamaldeep Sharma, Anshul Garg, Harkamal Singh, Gursimran Brar and Kinshuk Sharma reached the last eight while in under-10 section, eight boys who were able to make it to quarter-finals were, Arjun Sehgal, Sidharth Prasher, Abhiraj Singh, Raghav, Akshat, Digvijay Singh, Gurinder Singh and Anshul Kadian. The last eight entrants in under-12 section were, Vijayant Malik, Sidharth Singh, Chetanya Verma,Viraj Gandhi, Deepinder Singh, Yuvresh Bansal, Mandeep Yadav and Uday Punia.

Cricket tourney

DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, beat Paragon Public school, SAS Nagar, by 251 runs and Govt Model Senior Secondary School-35 beat Green Field Public School by seven wickets in the second round matches of the PCA- Parle-G Inter-School Cricket Tournament played here today.

ADMINISTRATION

National Post Week celebrations begin
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 9
The Department of Posts yesterday began week-long celebrations of the National Postal Week beginning with the commemoration of the World Post Day.

It was on this day that the Universal Postal Union (UPU) was formed in 1874. This organisation made possible free movement of postal articles throughout the world. Now the UPU has 189 member countries and its headquarter is at Berne, Switzerland. The UPU aims at providing universal postal services to everyone, everywhere on the globe. The slogan for the current years is: ‘‘One world, one postal network’’.

The department observed the Business Development Day today while the Philately Day would be celebrated on October 11. The Financial Services Day would be observed on October 12 and the Mail Day on October 13.

According to Mr A.S.I.S. Paul, Chief Postmaster General, Punjab and Chandigarh, all major sub post offices in the city at Sectors 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 34 and 36 will be computerised during the year. He said here yesterday that post offices already computerised in Chandigarh include those at GPO, Sectors 19, 18 and 22.

Nine post offices have been computerised so far.

Chandigarh has also been linked to other stations in the Punjab through midnight mail service from January 31. Department mail motors from Chandigarh, Bathinda, Amritsar and Sangrur leave these places around 10 pm, meet at Ludhiana between midnight and 2 a.m., exchange mails and reach there respective destinations between 5 and 6 next morning carrying mails from all over the state. The sub of exchange is Ludhiana. This assures delivery next day at headquarters of all districts in Punjab and Chandigarh.

Mr Paul said that the registration work at Chandigarh had also been computerised. Nine computers had been installed. Similar computerisation had taken place at Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. The work relating dispatch of closed bags in mail agency at Ludhiana RMS had also been computerised and three computers installed. It was also planned to install computers for registration work at all mail offices of the circle during the current year. The work of pay bill preparation computerised at Ludhiana RMS and Jalandhar RMS, remaining work viz maintenance of service book, leave account, GPF account, budget statements and search bill etc would also be computerised shortly by the end of the current financial year. 

Notices in octroi evasion case
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, October 9
The Local Government Department has issued show-cause notices to a former Executive Officer and a Superintendent of the local civic body in connection with a five-month old case of evasion of octroi. The officials of the octroi wing had allegedly allowed a truck of plastic granules to pass without paying octroi from the Sohana post.

According to information available, the show-cause notices have been issued by the Principal Secretary to the Local Government under Section 10 of the Punishment and Appeal Rules of the Municipal Council Act. Sources said the show-cause notices were issued to the Executive Officer, Mr K.S. Brar, and the Superintendent, Mr Tarlochan Singh, after both failed to give satisfactory replies to explanations called by the Chief Vigilance Officer of the department.