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Other facilities must shoulder PGI’s burden, say experts
Chandigarh, April 21 However, a majority of the orators were of the view that the efforts would prove inadequate if health services in the neighbouring states did not improve. The discussion was chaired by Prof I.C. Pathak, former director, PGIMER, and Justice S.S. Sodhi, former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. “None of the neighbouring states could boast of improving its health facilities during the past 44 years to give people quality treatment there,” said Dr B.L. Talwar, former professor of surgery at the PGIMER. Suggesting the transfer of patients after stabilisation to other local hospitals, Prof Sanjay Jain of department of medicine, PGIMER, said it would help give reprieve to the emergency ward here. Stressing the need for floor management and evidence-based training for staff, Preeti Khanna, management graduate and advocate, said the redesigning of space could be considered for its optimum use under present circumstances. Also, an option must be there to hire attendants for patients for those struggling with manpower, she said. The staff needed to be more sensitive towards patients and adequately trained after studying the problems being faced at the emergency ward. Time volunteering by people for emergency duties could also tackle staff shortage, suggested Khanna. Prof B.N. Goswami, emeritus professor, Panjab University, while pointing out the lapses on part of the PGI authorities as well as English dailies published from the city, said newspaper often printed wrong phone numbers for emergency services at the PGI. Moreover, long queues at chemist shop at the emergency ward resulted in chaos and noise pollution, he said. Prof A.K. Gupta, medical superintendent of the PGIMER, drew the attention towards the list of problems plaguing the emergency ward. These included poor communication skills owing to regional background of doctors; cumbersome processes; problems in locating facilities, etc. However, instilling motivation in staff, generating revenue and single window service for many services could help improve the situation to some extent, he opined. Pawan Mutneja, advocate, Punjab and Haryana High Court, highlighted the need for documenting the actions of doctors in the emergency ward so that they could protect themselves from litigation. Professor Pathak said there was a need to strengthen the medical infrastructure in the surrounding regions so as to enable the PGI to handle only those cases that needed tertiary care, the very purpose for which it was originally envisaged.
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Health dept advisory for summer
Chandigarh, April 21 Cautioning against going out with empty stomach, the health department has advised people to take plenty of water supplemented with salt and lime. During summer, local temperature of the city touches 45 °C and persons exposed to sun get symptoms of heat illness, like muscle cramps, weakness, exhaustion, dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, hyperventilation, confusion, loss of consciousness and fever. Sweating is often absent and at times there is failure of thermo-regulatory system of the body. This is a life-threatening situation and the patient must be shifted to hospital without loss of time. Patient suffering from diabetes, heart and kidney failure, cancer, or on drugs like steroids, diuretic, anti-psychotic or alcoholics, old age, young children are more prone to heat stroke and should be more careful, it has advised. |
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Eye camp for poor kids
Chandigarh, April 21 Students and children from the neighbouring colonies benefitted from the camp. Dr Rakesh, who runs a clinic in Sector 35, managed the proceedings with the assistance of rotaractors. Spectacles and medicines were distributed free of cost to the needy children. The camp saw as many as 600 students getting their eyes examined and nearly 75 getting spectacles and medicines. S.K. Checker, former president, Rotary Club, Chandigarh central, and faculty members of the college were present.
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Book on hockey stars released
Chandigarh, April 21 The function was held at the Press Club, Sector 27, here today. Captain Kanwaljeet Singh, cabinet
minister for cooperatives, was the chief guest on the occasion. A number of ex-Olympians and hockey stars namely Balbir Singh Senior, Tarlochan Singh Bawa, Madan Mohan, Gundeep Kumar, Baldev Singh, Surinder Sodhi and eminent hockey writer Iqbal Singh Saroya were among other officials of the hockey fraternity who were present on the occasion. Tarlochan Bawa appealed to the youth to maintain their physical fitness and refrain from intoxicants. He also criticised the administrative system of the federation. He appealed that ample infrastructure be provided in the state so that the lost glory of hockey be regained. Iqbal Singh highlighted the deteriorating state of the game from 1928 till date. He informed, through his collected data, that the level of the game has fallen from 100 per cent to 34 per cent and also enumerated the reasons responsible for its downfall. Capt Kanwaljeet Singh, in his valedictory address, advocated that in this highly competitive era, the identification of talent and to nurture and maintain it is the duty of the government. “Talent hunt programmes should be organised at schools at the age of five or six years. Further, there must be more college and university level tournaments,” he said. Capt Kanwaljeet, while congratulating the author, also promised to market the book for its full utility. In the end, the author presented a vote of thanks. |
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Mandeep blanks Ramandeep in qualifier
Chandigarh, April 21 In girls under-16
singles, Rajvir Kaur of Chandigarh got the better of another local girl
Shaina Dewan 4-0, 4-0. The five-day championship will start from April
23. The other results are: Boys under-14 singles: Rajvir
Singh b Ashutosh Sharma 4-2, 4-0, Rajat Solanki b Sidhant Sahdev 4-0,
4-0, Indervir S. Bains w.o. Arjun Pandey, Deep Singh w.o. Raj Sumer
Singh, Prashanta b Taranvir 4-2, 4-1, Amit Bzad b Bhavya Jain 4-1, 3-5,
4-1, Ashutosh Rana b Sanchit Thakur 4-0, 2-4, 4-0, Rishab Dev b Dheer
Anush Bhatti 5-3, 4-0, Kamal Kishore b Jivtesh Kang 4-2, 4-0, Shikhar
Kumar b Ravinder Singh 4-2, 4-1, Hardik Singh b Ankush Parocha 4-0, 4-0,
Jatinder Singh b Hardeep S. Sidhu 5-4 (2), 4-2, Ranjodh Singh b Barun
Gill 4-2, 1-4, 4-2, Ajay Thakur b Kuwar S. Tater 4-0, 4-0, Boys
under-16 singles: Mandeep Kumar b Ramandeep Singh 4-0, 4-0, Om Dalvi
b Kirti Kumar 4-0, 4-1, Vijay Bhardwaj b Amit Bzad 4-1, 4-0, Shailendra
Rat w.o. Sunny Dahiya, Suraj Beniwal b Neeraj Singh 5-3, 4-2, Taranvir
Singh b Siddhant Poddar 4-0, 2-4, 4-2, Jaspznoes Singh b F. Deep Singh
4-0, 4-1, Vedant Rastogi b Ishan Gupta 4-2, 4-1, Jatin Mehra b Rahul
Kumar 4-0, 4-0, Aujasvi Raj w/o Angad Singh Neeihar Yeraavadekar b
Mailos Aomer 4-0, 4-2, Sabareesh Hariharan b Gulshan Gupta 4-1, 4-1,
Digvijay S. Naruka b Ranjodh Singh 4-1, 4-0, Pankaj Kumar b Arjun Mehra
4-1, 4-5 (5), 4-0, Shikhar Nehru b Sahil Kahlon 5-4 (5), 4-1, Davinder
Singh b Prateek Panchal 4-1, 2-4, 4-1, Amitojbir Singh w.o. Vinayak
Mehta, Manoj b Aviraj Kamboj 4-1, 5-4 (3), Hitesh Gupta b Udai S. Mann
4-1, 5-3, Rishab Arora b Varun Kumar 4-1, 4-2, Nischay Rawal b Ashutosh
Rana 4-0, 4-0, Ranjeet Singh w.o. Sanej Abrol, Raghav Singhal b Harmeet
Singh 4-0, 4-1, Md. Aiman bin Abdullah b Harshit Juneja 4-2, 4-1,
Harpreet S. Saran b Rehatbir S. Mann 4-2, 4-0, Rishab Dev b Hitesh Dang
4-2, 4-0, Prashata Piya w.o. Arjun Pandey Devbir Singh b Jatinder Singh
4-1, 4-1, Anurag Kumar b Gurinder Singh 4-0, 4-1, 4-2, Anirudh b Sahil
Chhabra 4-5, 4-2, 4-0. Girls under-16 singles: Jaspreet Kaur b
Indu Punia 4-2, 5-4 (2), Sandeep Kaur w.o. Shreya Malhotra, Garima Raj b
Saumya Chaudhary 4-2, 4-2, Abhilasha Mehra b Ankita Bhatia 1-4, 4-2,
4-2, Sonali Bansal W/o Abhisheta Pandey, Ravnoor Kaur b Avneet Kaur 4-1,
4-0, Rajendra Madhushani b Rimpledeep Kaur 4-1, 4-2, Rajvir Kaur b
Shaina Dewan 4-0, 4-0. Girls under-14 singles (final qualifying
round): Abhilasha b Shaina Dewan 4-0, 4-1, Rajendra Madhushani b
Sonali Bansal 4-1, 4-0, Srijita Ghosh b Ibrahim Marriyam Raidha 4-0,
4-2, Shivika Sharma b Nikita 4-0, 5-3, Harkirat Bains b Ayna Arora 4-0,
4-0, Rajvir Kaur b Nandini Sharma 4-1, 4-0, Rameek b Mou Mumitu Jannat
5-4 (1), 2-4, 4-1, Rimpledeep b Vibhuti Khullar 4-0, 4-1. Boys
under-14 singles (Second Round): Jashanveer Bhatti b Aditya 4-1,
4-1, Varun Kunwar b Bavneet Singh 4-1, 4-1, Abhinav Gupta w.o. Pankaj
Kumar, Ranjeet Singh b Shailendra Rathore 4-0, 4-2, Suraj Beniwal b
Utkarsh 4-0, 4-1, Srijan Uppal b Rajvir Singh 4-2, 4-1, Vikas Berwal b
Deepak Singh 4-1, 4-0, Rajat Solanki w.o. Vinayak Mehra, Pragun Vinayak
b Indervir Singh 4-0, 4-0, Arnav Kishore b Pranav Suri 4-0, 4-0, Neeihar
Yeraavadekar b Fateh Deep Singh 4-1, 4-1, Harshit Juneja b Prashant 4-1,
2-4, 4-2, Arsh Bulland b Mandeep Kumar 4-1, 4-2,Bikram Singh b Nikhil
Keshwani 4-0, 4-0, Amit Bzad b Aditya Bansal 4-0, 4-1, Resham Singh b
Dharuv Walia 4-0, 4-0, Arjun Mehra b Ashutosh Rana 4-0, 4-1, Ranjeet
Singh b Shailender 4-0, 4-2, Shikhar Kumar b Gagandeep Gill 4-1, 5-3.
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Haryana get the better of
Himachal Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 21 Batting first after winning the toss, Punjab piled up 217 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the huge target, the Uttaranchal team was bundled out for just 119 runs in 14 overs. Saurabh Talwar ripped apart the batting lineup of Uttaranchal with his deadly spell of three overs. He snapped seven wickets conceding just 14 runs. In the second match between Himachal Pradesh and Haryana at the same venue, Haryana got the better of HP by eight wickets. Batting first, HP made 130 runs in 16.1 overs. Rajat was the highest scorer with 34 runs. For Haryana, Ramesh and Ashish claimed three wickets each for 33 and 22 runs, respectively. In reply, Haryana achieved the target by scoring 132 losing two wickets in just 15.1 overs. Ramesh again rose to the occasion and hit an unbeaten 54 runs while his partner Jatinder scored remained not out on 39 runs.
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Prateek’s century props Mohali
Mohali, April 21 After winning the toss, the Mohali team decided to bat first. The team scored 288 for 7 in the allotted 95 overs. Prateek was well supported by Saurabh Chopra (45) and Rahul (37). For Patiala, Gaurav Preet took two wickets for 108 followed by Puneet and Karan, who claimed one wicket each for 30 and 61 runs, respectively. Patiala, too, started on a good note as their opening batsmen Vikram with 21 runs and Kamal with 6 runs remained unbeaten at the end of the first day’s play. Patiala were 29 for no loss in 11 overs. Tomorrow will be the final day of the match. Brief scores: Mohali: 288 for 7 in 95 overs (Prateek 130, Rahul 37, Saurabh Chopra 45, Gaurav 2 for 108, Puneet 1 for 30, Karan 1 for 61). Patiala: 21 for no loss in 11 overs (Vikram 21 n.o, Kamal 6 n.o). |
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Wushu trials today
Chandigarh, April 21 Players, born between July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992 can participate in the trials, which will be held for the following weight categories - 45 kg, 48 kg, 52 kg, 56 kg, 60 kg, 65 kg, 70 kg, 75 kg and 80 kg. Permission from parents or guardian is necessary for every player for taking part. Interested players must report to coach Ramesh Singh at the venue. A two-day coaching camp will be organised from April 23 and the final team will be selected during the camp. The national championship will be held here from May 25 to 30. |
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