Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 3
Terming unawareness about the importance of various nutrients and their deficiency among children, a team of doctors urged the parents to consult dieticians before preparing menu for daily diet. Poor personal hygiene and community health services were cited as other factors causing illness among children.

Rajiv Sood and Ashish Jindal, both pediatricians, said majority of parents lacked knowledge about the significance of various constituents of balanced diet. Besides causing deficiency diseases, the trend resulted in fall in immunity and consequent increased vulnerability to ailments.

While talking to Ludhiana Tribune after examining more than 100 children at a camp organised by the Rotary Club at Sood Hospital here, the pediatricians said Punjabi mothers had been found to start supplementary diet to their children very late.

“While a child should normally be given supplementary died after about four months of his birth, the mothers continue depriving him or her of necessary constituents of diet for more than one year,” said Sood. He held that even milk was not a complete diet for the children.

Anemia, kwashiorkor, marasmus and rickets were cited as major deficiency diseases that decreased immunity and resulted in increased incidence of gastroenteritis, jaundice and dysentery.

The organisers provided free medical to the patients.

Pardeep Sharda and Narinder Gogna, both district committee members, Satish Jain, president, and S.P. Sofat were present, among others.

Ludhiana, June 3
Hira Singh Gabria, minister for jails, printing and stationery today lauded the role of various social organisations in providing relief to people. He was addressing the concluding function at a camp to distribute artificial limbs and appliances. The two-day camp was organised by Bhagwan Mahavir Sewa Sansthan at Viklang Sahayta Kendra, Rishi Nagar, here.

Gabria said the camp was the actual application of the teachings of Lord Mahavir, an apostle of peace, love, compassion and universal brotherhood. He also visited a polio surgery hospital set up by the Bharat Vikas Parishad.

Ram Kumar Jain, chairman of Sherman group of industries, presided over the function while former minister Rakesh Pandey was the guest of honour.

The camp was formally inaugurated by Rajinder Bhandari, state president BJP, yesterday.

Rakesh Jam, president of the sansthan, spoke about the activities and future plans of the organisation.

The sansthan also organises polio corrective surgery camps.

The sansthan also provides artificial limbs to physically challenged. It has borne all expenses of earlier polio corrective surgery camps. It also provides food and medicines, apart from artificial limbs, calipers, wheel chairs to needy at other camps. 

Ludhiana, June 3
Adhiraj Sharma, a student of Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar, made his presence felt by clinching three gold medals in the Ludhiana District Swimming Championship which concluded at the Lodhi Club swimming pool, here today. In the boy's section (Group II), Adhiraj won the 100 m freestyle, 50 m breaststroke and 200 m breaststroke events.

Balteshwar Singh Boparai of Guru Nanak Public School won two gold medals. In Group III, Balteshwar won the 100 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley. In the girl's section, trainee of PAU Club, Harnoor Kaiser, annexed two gold medals. In group II, she proved her mettle by winning 100 m breaststroke and 200 m breaststroke events.

Results: Boys- Group II- 200 m free style- 1 Kishanjeet Singh, 2 Alamdeep Singh, 3 Shivroop Singh; 100 m freestyle- 1 Adhiraj sharma, 2 Harsharan Singh, 3 Alamdeep Singh; 100 m backstroke- 1 Kishanjeet Singh , 2 Shivroop Singh, 3 Vikas; Group III- 100 m freestyle- 1 Jatinderveer Singh, 2 Akshit Bawa, 3 Nawab Kang; 50 m backstroke- 1 Manavdeep Singh, 2 Bharat Sood, 3 Saksham Kapoor; 100 m breaststroke- 1 Prabhdeepak Singh, 2 Nawab Kang, 3 Anmol Kang; 200 m buttrefly- 1 Harsharan Singh, 2 Harsimrajit Singh, 3 Mohit Kumar; Group I- 400 m freestyle- 1 Abhishek Vatts, 2 Deepansh Sharma, 3 Navdeep Singh; 100 m backstroke- 1 Jagdeep Singh, 2 Bharat Sharma, 3 Navdeep Singh; 100 m freestyle- 1 Jagdeep Singh, 2 Sunil Kumar, 3 Aseem Aggarwal; 200 m butterfly- 1 Nikhil Sunil, 2 Jaskirat Singh; Group I- 200 m freestyle- 1 Jagdeep Singh, 2 Abhishek Vatts, 3 Deepansh Sharma; Group II- 200 m breaststroke- 1 Adhiraj Sharma, 2 Harmanjit Singh, 3 Aman; Group III- 100 m butterfly- 1 Balteshwar Singh, 2 Nawab Kang, 3 Sushant Gupta; Group IV- 50 m backstroke- 1 Jaipriya Kumar, 2 Roshan Chirag, 3 Surfaj Gill; Group I- 200 m breaststroke- 1 Deepansh Sharma, 2 Sunil Kumar, 3 Jivesh Batra; Group IV- 100 m freestyle- 1 Manavdeep Singh, 2 Saksham Kapoor, 3 Bharat Sood; Group I- 200 m backstroke- 1 Amarpal Singh Grewal, 2 Jagdeep Singh, 3 Bharat Sharma; Group III- 200 m individual medley- 1 Balteshwar Singh, 2 Nawab Kang, 3 Rishab Batra; 400 m individual medley- 1 Abhishek Vatts, 2 Bharat Sharma,3 Sunil Kumar; Group II- 400 m individual medley- 1 Kishanjit, 2 Shivroop ,3 Harmanjit;

Girls - Group II- 200 m freestyle- 1 Arman Kaur , 2 Arkiza; Group IV- 50 m backstroke- 1 Manimehtab, 2 Kirti Monga, 3 Pukhraj Gill; Group II- 100 m backstroke- 1 Suhapanpreet Kaur, 2 Anuradha; 100 m breaststroke- 1 Harnoor Kaiser, 2 Arkiza; 100 m backstroke- 1 Sheerat, 2 Japneet; Group I- 200 m freestyle- 1 Arshpreet Kaur; Group II- 200 m breaststroke- 1 Harnoor Kaiser, 2 Arkiza; Group III- 100 m butterfly- 1 Kawalpreet Kaur, 2 Sheerat Gill; Group V- 50 m backstroke- 1 Sahib Kaur; Group IV- 100 m freestyle- 1 Mani Mehtab Dhaliwal, 2 Lipika Dhall, 3 Pukhraj Gill;

Group II- 200 m backstroke- 1 Suhapanpreet Kaur, 2 Arshdeep Kaur; Group III- 200 m individual medley- 1 Shubhkarman Dhariwal, 2 Kawalpreet Kaur; Group IV- 50 m breaststroke- 1 Manimehtab Grewal, 2 Lipika Dhall, 3 Pukhraj Gill; Group I- 100 m butterfly- 1 Vhiranjeev Kaur, 2 Jaspreet Kaur; Group II- 100 m butterfly- 1 Aarushi Gupta, 2 Arman Kaur; Group III- 50 m butterfly- 1 Kawalpreet Kaur; Group I- 50 m backstroke- 1 Arashpreet Kaur ; Group II- 400 m individual medley- 1 Aarushi Gupta, 2 Arkiza.