Cancer awareness camp at GNDU

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 15

A two-day cancer awareness and screening camp was inaugurated at the health centre of Guru Nanak Dev University here today. The camp is being organised in association with medical experts of the Roko Cancer Charitable Trust and Cancer Care Charitable Society. The objective of the camp is to create awareness about cancer.

Chairperson medical committee, Prof Dr Gurcharan Kaur, inaugurated the camp. She felicitated the team of doctors and para-medical staff, who offered their services to organise the camp, besides creating awareness on early detection of cancer among the people leaving in the urban, semi-urban and rural areas.

She said the biggest service in the world was that of humanity. As many as 102 patients were examined on the first day of the camp.

Earlier, in charge, university health centre, Dr Sunil Gupta, welcomed the team of doctors and para-medical staff. He also gave details about the facilities available at the university health centre.

Seminar on solid waste management

A seminar on “Options and challenges of management of municipal solid waste” was held at conference hall of Guru Nanak Bhawan of Guru Nanak Dev University here today.

The seminar was organised by Guru Ramdas School of Planning in collaboration with Toxic Link, New Delhi, a non-profit organization. The seminar discussed the focus areas of the organization, which include e-waste, hazardous industrial waste, plastic waste, bio-medical waste, municipal and radioactive waste.

Gopal Kumar Johari, head, Guru Ramdas School of Planning, welcomed the delegates and participants. Dr TS Benipal, director research, Guru Nanak Dev University, inaugurated the seminar. Dr Raju Chauhan, health officer, Municipal Corporation, Amritsar, presented an overview of solid waste management in the city.

Satish Sinha, associate director, Toxic Link, described the innovative technologies and new inventions all over the world for management of municipal solid waste.

Venkatesh Sekhar from Karnataka State Pollution Control Board shared experiences in the state. Kirandeep Sandhu, seminar coordinator, described the existing scenario of solid waste collection system in Amritsar.

Students, research scholars and faculty members of Guru Ramdas School of Planning, the Departments of Architecture, Environment and Botanical Sciences were among the participants. Officials of government departments and members of various NGOs, Pollution Control Committee, INTACH as well as Sangarsh Samiti also attended the seminar.