The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

HEALTH

Prestigious medical award for Dr Khanna
Our Correspondent

Samrala, April 15
Dr Dharam Pal Khanna, former Chief Medical Officer, Samrala, was awarded “Chikitsa Shiromani Puraskar” alongwith a certificate of medical excellence and a gold medal by Bhisham Narayan Singh, former Governor of Assam and Tamil Naidu, and G.V.G Krishanmurty, former Chief Election Commissioner, at New Delhi last week.

During his tenure at the local civil hospital, Dr Khanna got it upgraded from 50 to 100 bed hospital and also got a beautiful building constructed. Under his guidance the hospital earned the reputation of being one of the best in the state.

Dr Khanna has got several awards for his contribution to the National Health Programme.

During his professional career he has performed more than 20.000 operations successfully.

Dr Khanna had started his career by joining the Punjab State Civil Medical Services in 1972. During service he did his post-graduation in general surgery in 1980.

He remained posted as Senior Medical Officer at civil hospital in Khanna/Samrala from 1988 to 2003 and was promoted as Civil Surgeon, Faridkot, thereafter. He retired in 2004 and is now settled in Khanna.

100 donate blood for thalassaemic kids
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 15
Nearly 100 volunteers donated blood at a camp organised by the Niswarth Sewa Society in association with the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) at Bhagwan Adinath Jain Mandir, here, to mark Baisakhi yesterday.

The blood would be used for transfusion in children suffering from thalassaemia. Amarjit Kaur, professor and head of Transfusion Medicine at DMCH, lauded the society’s initiative of holding the camp, which was a service for the suffering humanity. Exhorting the people to make blood donation a mass movement, she spelt out a plan to fight thalassaemia and other life-threatening blood diseases.

SPORTS

Inter-district cricket: Amritsar in strong position
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, April 15
Amritsar team was sitting pretty against hosts, Ludhiana, at draw of stumps on the first day of the inaugural match of the Punjab State Inter- District Cricket Tournament (u-15) being played at Satis Chander Dhawan Government College ground here today.

In reply to Ludhiana's first innings total of 150 all out, the visitors were 64 for 1 after 21 overs.

Ludhiana won the toss and elected to bat first. However, their decision to make use of the pitch first proved to be a miscalculated one as the top order failed to perform well.

The team was tottering at 62 for five when Abhishek Talwar and Abhijit Randhawa joined hands to steady the innings.

The pair added valuable 55 runs for the sixth wicket. Abhijit scored 43 runs while Abhishek contributed 19 runs. Other notable scorers were Vivek (21), Sandeep Singh (11) and Piyush Likhi (13).

For Amritsar, right-arm off spinner, Vinay Choudhry, gave an excellent performance with the ball, chipping in with seven wickets conceding just 35 runs. Kamal Passi and Suraj Parkash grabbed one wicket each for 16 and 10 runs, respectively.

Amritsar began their reply on a sound note.

At draw of stumps, the visitors were 64 for one wicket.

Rohan was unbeaten on 34 while Shiv Luv was bowled out for 26.

Gurdeep sent down four overs and took one wicket by conceding seven runs.