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HEALTH

Telemedicine to change face of healthcare: Doc
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
“Telemedicine will change the healthcare scenario in the country in coming years as a doctor will be able to work at multiple locations simultaneously, which will help reduce the burden of patient overflow to big hospitals as well as provide superspeciality treatment even in remote areas,” said Prof B.K. Rao, chairman, board of management, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, here today.

Professor Rao was here to deliver the keynote address at three-day “Critical Care-2007” conference at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32.

The conference, organised by the department of anaesthesia and intensive care, GMCH, on “Newer trends and challenges in clinical practice” is directed towards specialists who treat patients in the ICU, cardiac care unit (CCU), including anaesthesiologist, chest physicians, surgeons, paediatricians, critical care nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

Clinical care will be located everywhere as doctors stationed at remote places connected with telemedicine centres will be able to communicate with doctors at superspeciality hospitals, sending him imaging of X-ray or ultrasound, lab diagnosis, and treat patients in their hospitals in most cases, said Dr Rao.

Dengue: Field operations stepped up
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
Twenty-three cases of dengue have so far been reported in various health institutes of the city, while 10 of the cases belonged to other states. The city reported two deaths due to dengue during this week.

All cases reported at the PGI and other institutes were being investigated by officers of the national vector-borne disease control programme, UT, said Dr M.S. Bains, director, health services, today. Meanwhile, the health department has asked its teams to intensify field operations to tackle the dengue cases. To minimise the vector density, fumigation was carried out in Sectors 37, 40 and 56 today, said the director.

SPORTS

Birthday boy Rahul clinches golf title
Donald Banerjee

Chandigarh, October 5
Rahul Bakshi of Chandigarh could not have asked for a better gift on his 17th birthday today. After trailing Rashid Khan on the first three days, he played a one-under par 71 card to defeat the caddie golfer from Delhi by two strokes to clinch the Category A as also the overall title in the Indian Oil Xtrapremium Junior/Sub-junior Chandigarh Open Golf Championship on the par-72 greens of the Chandigarh Golf Club today.

Rahul sunk birdies on the second and fourth holes and bogeyed the ninth hole for a one-under par 35 on the front nine. A bogey and a birdie on the back nine saw him finish with a one-under par 71 for an overall final tally of three-under par 291.

Rashid just could not get his putting right as he bogeyed four times for a two-over par 74 and an overall tally of five-over par 293.

Ashbeer Saini of Kapurthala played a bad back nine today, but the others played even worse in Category B. The Kapurthala boy double-bogeyed on the 16th hole and lost strokes four more times in the back nine for a four-over par 77 card and an overall tally of 12-over par 300. Despite his poor back nine patch, Ashbeer clinched the B Category title, beating his nearest rival Raghav Bhandari by eight strokes.

In a match of poor scores in the girls' B Category, Gauri Monga played an overall 58-over par 346 to clinch the title. She defeated her nearest rival, Shreya Ghai by 16 strokes. Mehar Mittal finished one stroke behind Shreya.

The under-10 boys’ gave a much better performance with Vidit Sinch playing 26-over par 242 to emerge the winner. His nearest rival was Piyush Sangwan, who finished eight strokes behind the champion.

The prizes were given away by H.S. Bedi, general manager, Indian Oil, Chandigarh.

Results

Category A: Rahul Bakshi 75+75+70+71=291, Rashid Khan 71+74+74+74=293, Abhijit Chadha 75+77+73+76=301, Angad Cheema 76+74+78+77=305.

Category B: Ashbeer Saini 71+80+72+77=300, Raghav Bhandari 77+72+81+78=308, Pradeep Basoya 79+80+80+79=318.

Category B (girls): Gauri Monga 82+85+86+93=346, Shreya Ghai 87+89+89+97=362, Mehar Mittal 91+91+95+86=363.

Category C: Gurbani Singh 85+85+82+86=338, Harman Virk 90+85+81+85=341, Abhishek Kuhar 82+89+86+85=344.

Category D: Vidit Singh 80+81+81=242, Piyush Sangwan 85+83+82=250, Viraaj G. Mandappa 84+77+92=253, Jairaj Sandhu 88+80+87=255.

Aditya pockets TT title
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
Aditya Pandey outclassed Tushar Dhiman by 11-6, 11-1, 9-11, 11-3 in the cadet boys’ singles final on the inaugural day of the second Chandigarh State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament. The tournament is being held at the Sector 23 table tennis hall.

After losing the first game, Ishita Sharma rallied to win the next three games to defeat Parveen Verma 8-11, 11-3, 13-11, 11-8 in the cadet girls’ singles final.

Earlier, in the semifinals, Ishita Sharma ended the challenge of Anviksha 11-4, 11-8, 12-14, 8-11, 11-5 while Parveen Verma beat Barbie Bajaj 7-11,11-6, 13-15, 11-6, 11-6.

Results

Cadet boys (round I): Semifinals: Tushar Dhiman (KV3BRD AFS) b Shubham Bansal (DAVPS-8); Aditya Pandey (MM-21) b Dinkar Goyal (SN-22).

Final: Aditya Pandey (MM-21) b Tushar Dhiman (KV3BRD AFS).

Cadet girls: Semi-finals: Ishita Sharma (SH-26) b Anviksha (MM-21); Parveen Verma (DAVPS-8) b Barbie Bajaj (SH-26).

Final: Ishita Sharma (SH-26) b Parveen Verma (DAVPS-8).

Handball
SD College register win
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
SD College got the better of SGGS College 30-20 in a league match of the Panjab University Inter-college Handball Tournament today. The tournament is being played at the PU grounds.

Manoj and Gagan of SD College scored nine and eight points, respectively. Vishal contributed five points for SGGS. Gurjee scored six points while Mangat and Harjit scored four points each.

Meanwhile, in the Kabaddi tournament, being played on the knock-out basis, GNN College, Doraha, thrashed MMD DAV College.

Results

Handball (league basis) men: SCD Government College, Ludhiana, b DAV College, Chandigarh; SD College b SGGS College, Chandigarh.

Kabaddi (knockout basis) men: GN College, Moga, b Malwa College, Samrala; MRS College, Malout, b Government College, Sidhsar; GN College, Narangwala, b GN College, Doraha; GN College, Moga, b GHG Khalsa College, Gurusar, Sadhar; MRS College, Malout, b DAV College, Chandigarh.

Football meet from Oct 10
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 5
The Chandigarh sub-junior u-17 girls’ football tournament for the Mother Veronica trophy will be organised from October 10 to 13 at the Sector 17 football stadium here. The tournament will be sponsored by Carmel Convent School.

According to Chandigarh Football Association secretary Rakesh Bakshi, the tournament will be conducted as per the All-India Football Association rules. During the meet, as many as 25 probables will be selected for a coaching camp for Chandigarh's participation in the Sub-junior National Football Championship for girls to be conducted by Chhattisgarh in November/December.

Meanwhile, the invitation has been sent to various schools and the last date of entry is October 8.