HEALTH

PGI employees allege favouritism
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 17
The PGI Employees Union (Group B, C, D employees) has alleged “favouritism” in recruitment of a lift operator by an official of PGI and demanded an inquiry into the appointment.

In a letter addressed to the Central Vigilance Commissioner, New Delhi, the President, Mr Sat Pal Bhardwaj had alleged an officer of the PGI “misused his power and authority to grant undue favours” by selecting a unqualified contract employee as a lift operator in the recently held selection.

The letter maintains that the institute advertised five posts of lift operators against vacancies notified in the Regional Employment Exchange. Applications were invited from regular employees of the institute as also from those working in research schemes, provided they had initially joined through the employment exchange.

They alleged that the selected candidate did not possess requisite qualifications initially and “managed” to get a certificate in the one year that the selection was delayed as also an experience certificate to fulfill the criterion. The union had urged the CVC to thoroughly investigate the matter.

Seminar on no scalpel vasectomy
Our Correspondent

Panchkula, February 17
The district health authorities organised a seminar on family planning measures with a special emphasis on no scalpel vasectomy (NSV) at the district conference hall here on Wednesday. The civil surgeon, Dr G.P. Saluja, welcomed the chief guest, Brijendra Singh, Deputy Commissioner.

Earlier, the district NSV trainer and specialist surgeon, Dr Sanjeev Trehan, gave a detailed overview of the family planning measures and the no scalpel vasectomy technique in particular through a slide show. Introduced in China way back in 1970, the NSV is the most popular method in USA with over 5 lakh operations performed every year. Terming NSV , the ‘Walk In Procedure’ Dr Trehan disclosed that the whole process takes 20 to 30 minutes after the aspirant enters a hospital.

Encouraged with the overwhelming response where they operated upon 237 persons at a four-day camp in December last, the district medical authorities will hold another NSV camp from February 20 to 22, 2006 at the General Hospital, Sector 6, here. Those undergoing NSV surgery will be paid an incentive of Rs 1,000 immediately after the operation. Disclosing the increasing trend of NSV in Haryana Dr Trehan said over 7,500 operations had been performed against less than 2,000 persons operated upon in previous years.

175 donate blood at HMT complex
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, February 17
As many as 175 persons donated blood at a blood donation camp at the HMT complex in Pinjore, near here, today.

According to a press note, Mr J.P. Sharma, Mr Tejinder Grover, Mr Pawan Kumar, Mr Satpal Saini, Mr Satish Rekhi, Mr Deepak Mehta and Mr Bhalwinder Singh were among those who donated blood for more than 20 times. Mr Kesar Singh, a physically challenged person, and Ms Sudarshna, a visually-challenged person also donated blood.

The 34th blood donation camp was conducted by a team of doctors from the PGI, Chandigarh.