Chandigarh, November 30
The Punjab Governor and Administrator, Chandigarh, Lieut-Gen. J.F.R. Jacob (retd.), yesterday underlined the need for evolving an organised system to provide medical care to unattended patients who were admitted to various hospitals of the city.

Speaking after inaugurating the Transit Camp and Ultrasound Machine by an NGO Lifeline at Janta Sarai of PGI, General Jacob said that in the modern Cyber-age, when life was moving at a fast pace, the social fabric was undergoing change. Joint families were giving way to nuclear families. He said when a person from the remote rural area meets with an accident, there is hardly anybody to look after him in the hospital. Both the General Hospital, Sector 16 and PGI were facing problems of unattended patients. Some patients were deliberately left unattended at the hospital by family members due to economic reasons.

Lauding the role of Lifeline for taking the initiative to attend the unattended patients and patients belonging to the under-privileged sections of society, the Governor said that Lifeline must extend this experiment to the Sector 16 General Hospital which was also facing the same problem.

Dr S.K. Sharma, Director PGI, while addressing the audience stated that PGI was under immense pressure due to work overload, with patients arriving from neighbouring states for treatment. “States of Punjab, Haryana and Punjab should improve their health facilities so that PGI retains its status as a referral institute.” he said.

Reacting to the suggestions of the Director, PGI, Dr S.K. Sharma, General Jacob said that medical infrastructure in the city was in the process of upgradation. 60 more beds had been added to the Sector-16 hospital and some dispensaries were being expanded to the polyclinic level. The Tuberculosis Hospital would be operational by the end of January and the Medical College already had the latest medical infrastructure.

General Jacob announced a grant of Rs 50,000 for Lifeline to their Charitable Work.

Chandigarh, November 30
He wants to give India a strong skeet shooting team that can become a world beater. Juan Giha, six times olympian in the skeet event is on contract with India to coach skeet shooters. He was in the city on the occasion of the National Games. A silver medallist in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, he wants to give his trainees everything that he has learnt in his 30 years of skeet shooting. Forty-six-year-old Juan is a citizen of Peru and participated in the Olympics for the first time in 1980 in Moscow. Then he went on to the 1984 Los Angles, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Juan visualises 20 to 30 per cent improvement in the performance of Indian shooters by next year which will help them win medals in the forthcoming international competitions. He said that next year was important for Indian shooters because tournaments such as the World Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Asian Games, the Afro-Asian Games, will provide a yardstick to measure the progress made by them. He was all praise for Aarti Singh and said he expected her to perform creditably in the World Cup at Doha (Qatar) in January next year.

Gaurav, Sunil play winning knocks

A useful partnership of 91 runs between Gaurav Gupta and Sunil Bisht, who scored 55 and 48 runs, respectively, enabled Shivalik Public School, Sector 41 to beat Shishu Niketan Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, by 106 runs in the UT Inter-Cchool Cricket Tournament for the Shivalik Trophy organised by the UT Cricket Association here today at the Cricket Stadium, Sector 16. SPS-41 won the toss and opted to bat first. Though its openers got out in quick succession but the duo of Gaurav and Sunil was able to build a partnership of 91 runs. Finally, an unbeaten knockof 44 runs by Karan Paul helped his side in amassing a total of 220 runs for nine wickets.

In reply, SN-22 batsmen never looked comfortable in chasing the target and were all out for 114 runs in 19th over.

Brief scores: SPS-41: 220 for nine (Gaurav Gupta 53, Sunil Bisht 48, Karan Paul 44 (n.o.) Arvind 3 for 29,Vinay Kumar 2 for 30).

SN-22:114 all-out in 18.3 overs (Aditya 25, Sameer 20, Hemant Khanna 4 for 41,Anil Kapil 3 for 18).

In another tie, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, overpowered Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 27, by 128 runs. An unbeaten knock of 90 runs by Jasmeet Bedi paved the way for a fine victory for GMSSS-35.

Brief score: GMSSS-35: 173 for three wickets in 35 overs (Jasneet Bedi 90 (n.o.) Gauravjit 36); GMSSS-27: 45 all-out in 16.3 overs (Samandeep Singh 4 for six, Raj Angad 2 for 10, M Shahnawaj 2 for 11).

Taekwondo meet

The fifth District Roopnagar Taekwondo championship for senior, junior and sub-junior sections will be held at GNVBT Polytechnic, Phase I, SAS Nagar, on December 2. According to Mr Satpal S. Rehal, general Secretary of the Punjab Taekwondo Association, the weighing in will begin at 8 a.m. on the same day.

Carrom tournament

St Stephen’s School, Panchkula, ‘Team A’ from Pool A, will clash with DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, ‘Team A’ from Pool B, in the boys team championship of the Ist Saupin’s Inter-School Carrom Tournament which began here on Friday at Saupin’s School, Sector 9, Panchkula.

In the girls team championship, Saupin’s School, Panchkula, Team A, and St Stephen’s School, Panchkula, will play the final. The two-day meet is being organised by the Panchkula District Carrom Association. Finals will be held tomorrow at 12.30 p.m.

Sports Dept official retires

Mr Inderpal Singh, a senior official with the UT Sports Department, retired today after serving the department for more than three decades. Mr Inderpal, a known personality in the skating arena, held the additional charge of the Assistant Secretary of the Chandigarh Sports Council from 1989 to 2001, then looked after the Chandigarh Football Academy as its Administrative Secretary from 2000 to 2001.

An MSc in geology from Meerut University, he remained national skating champion from 1962 to 1965, a founder member of the Roller Skating Federation of India and then Secretary of the Roller Skating Federation of India from 1969 to 1987. He also represented India as manager and technical official in various international meets in Spain, Canada, Egypt, USA, Korea, Japan, Macau and China. He also remained Manager, skating rink, Sector 10, from 1971 to 2000 and was instrumental in bringing the city on the world skating map.