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Blood being lost in transfusion
Special children suffer for want of educators, infrastructure
Janmashtami celebrated with fervour
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Cong seeks info on action taken against BJP on EC directions
Dump sans container a problem for shopkeepers
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Blood being lost in transfusion
Jalandhar, August 27 The Punjab AIDS Control Society that provides empty blood bags to these hospitals to collect blood through various blood donors has now asked its parent body, National AIDS Control Society (NACO), to provide penta packs which will prevent the colossal wastage of precious blood. The blood bank in Civil Hospital has also started working as a blood component separation unit (BCSU) recently after getting an approval from NACO to prevent massive wastage of blood. “There is enormous wastage of blood during its transfusion in children, as they require very less blood, almost 50 to 100 ml at a time. Due to the non-availability of penta packs, the rest of the blood is getting discarded as biowaste, but now with the blood component separation unit in place, we have managed to control its wastage to an extent,” said Dr Gagandeep Singh, district blood transfusion officer. On Tuesday, the blood bank of Civil Hospital was left with only 25 units of blood against the required amount of 900 to 1,000 units. “We are keeping these units for emergency only. Often, there isa scarcity of blood in the blood bank, as most of the blood that comes here is through voluntary donors only. Replacement donors are very rare, as we cannot ask for replacement donors during an emergency and from lone patients, cases of which are in abundance here,” said Dr Navneet Kaur, medical officer at BSCU, Civil Hospital, Jalandhar. She also added that four blood donation camps had been planned next week in various parts of the district to meet the rising demand of blood. Also, with the recently acquired status of a BCSU, the blood bank at Civil Hospital is trying to stop the wastage of blood by separating blood into various components. A BSCU has recently become very crucial nowadays, as patients often need particular constituents of blood such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. That way, one unit of blood can be used for three to four patients, and the available blood can be used effectively. “Anaemic patients require red blood cells only. Giving whole blood to them is the wastage of other three components. Similarly, dengue and cancer patients’ only require platelets, so doctors should inform the patients about the specific component of blood according to their requirement for the effective use of
blood,” said Dr Gagandeep Singh. There are around 13 blood banks in the district. Two are of government operating from Civil hospitals of Jalandhar and Nakodar and the rest of the 11 are in various private hospitals. While a few private hospitals claim of using penta bags for paediatric blood transfusion, most of them are only using blood bags meant for adults (350 ml). Interestingly, none of the hospital maintains the data for such a massive loss of blood discarded as biowaste! “This is a very serious concern. We have recently taken up the issue with NACO also. Till then, the only way to stop this wastage is the availability and the effective functioning of the BCSU in various blood banks. We have given a target to separate around 80 per cent of blood to Civil Hospital in three months. Also, we are holding various training camps to make the doctors aware about asking for specific components rather than asking for the whole blood,” said Dr Sukhwinder Singh, joint director, Blood Safety, PACS. But till the time NACO realises the gravity of the situation and makes the penta bags available to the government hospitals, uncounted units of the precious blood will keep on flowing in the drains as biowaste. |
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Special children suffer for want of educators, infrastructure
Jalandhar, August 27 While the special children population of the district is put at 4,000 to 5,000 as per conservative estimates, under the IED (Inclusive Education for the Disabled) project being run under the Sarv Sikhiya Abhiyan, 774 children with special needs are being catered to. While presently the district has 95 special classes being run under the IED project, as many as 345 of these students are included in the out-of-school plan, while the rest attend classes. While only 80 IED centres were being run across the district in 2011, the number has now increased to 95 (earlier 97, two centres closed after two volunteers resigned). Presently, only 26 IERTs (Inclusive Education Resource Trainers) and 94 IE volunteers work across centres in the district. While every centre requires a qualified resource trainer, due to the presence of only 26 trainers, only relatively under-qualified volunteers are presently running the centres. What's more, recently the district has been totally devoid of the 97 STR volunteers " who were responsible for the out-of-school children in the district' after they were relieved, leaving the out-of-school aspect of special education badly understaffed and crippled. Moreover, for the past two years, new recruitment under the IED has been banned and the recruitment of special educators has also been banned since last year. Sources in the department said, "It is not possible for a volunteer to take care of the class and also attend to out-of-school children. While hard-pressed poor parents are more than willing to send children to these centres because we care and feed children for free, we also realise that the state of education in these centres is far from ideal. One volunteer is certainly not enough to take care of the needs of 10 to 20 (in some cases more) children who are enlisted in these centres." In many of these schools the students have be pushed to a side. At Government Primary (and Middle) School, Basti Danishmandan, a dearth of rooms has relegated the special needs class to a verandah. At Government Secondary School, Maqsudan, where the class from the primary schools nearby has been moved, special needs children languish in a corner of a staff room (its 1/3rd part) as the major share is used by other teachers. There are other schools where special classes are reduced to a mere joke, pushed to circumstances where proper care is not possible. While the students are being kept at school and fed, improvement and efforts to revive them to normalcy or more importantly, merge them with the mainstream are totally absent. A parent who sent her child to one of these schools said, "These are poor children. They need care and sensitivity to make them feel good. These children are bundled in a school corner or room, where one teacher merely baby sits without any affection towards them. School politics and lack of proper infrastructure aggravates the problem." Teachers also say that the Rs 250 these students got as stipend hasn't arrived since April in a majority of schools. The only silver lining is that in some of the schools, medical treatment of these students had been undertaken by the government to heal them. A parent at Maqsoodan School also said, "Within my resources, I would not have been able to provide a wheel-chair to my child. But the government has provided him that and is feeding him. What more could I ask for." SSA co-ordinator Ashok Grover said, "The volunteers and resource persons are working very hard to provide proper care to these students. While at some schools lack of infrastructure might be a concern, these students are assessed medically from time to time on the basis of which, they are treated. The centres have also increased from 80 to 95. In the coming times, the situation is only going to get better."
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Janmashtami celebrated with fervour
Jalandhar, August 27 Manav Sehyog School
The school celebrated Janamashtmi as the day of love and fortune,
Janmashtami. The Manav Sehyog School celebrated the birth anniversary of Krishna, a friend and a divine guru today, remembering his teachings, “Whatever belongs to you today, belonged to someone else yesterday and it will belong to someone else tomorrow. Don’t fall into the illusions of Maya. Maya is the root cause of all pain and misery.” Students presented a special assembly, depicting scenes picked up from Lord Krishna’s life. They also got appreciation presenting a dance performance in which they enacted important mythological characters. Other students paid obeisance to Krishna. Principal Rajni Sharma said, “Let us all join as one loving family of the Supreme - Krishna and celebrate this wonderful day with joy, love and faith”. Innocent Hearts School
Janamashthmi was celebrated at Innocent Hearts School, Model Town and Innocent Hearts School,
Loharan, with pomp and show. Dance performance was performed on Krishna and students sang
bhajans. Krishna was beautifully placed on a swing. Principal explained the importance of Janamashthmi and also the preaching’s of the deity. Apeejay School
Janmashtami was celebrated with great zeal and zest on the school premises. A special assembly was conducted in which students presented bhajans and recited poems. A skit based on Lord Krishna’s life was also enacted by the students. Principal Madhu Sharma highlighted the teachings of Lord Krishna in her speech and gave her best wishes to all the students on the occasion of
Janmashtmi. The tiny tots enthralled the audience with a foot tapping performance. Lawrence International School
Janamashtmi was celebrated with religious fervor. Chairman Jodhraj Gupta presided over the function. Function began with ‘Jhoola Ceremony’ wherein the chairperson rocked the cradle of Krishna. Students delivered speeches in Hindi and English, delivering the message that Krishna wanted to convey to humans, “One should act sincerely towards one’s duty without thinking about the consequences; ultimately everything will turn good for an individual and society on whole.” Simran Kaur regaled audience with her musical number. Students presented skits and dances highlighting the messages conveyed by Krishna for the welfare of humanity. Principal Tarlochan Singh and Vice-principal Manoj Patyal thanked participants and appreciated the performance of young artists. Seth Hukam Chand School
To nourish the respect for tradition Janamashtmi was celebrated in Seth Hukam Chand S. D. Public Sr. Sec. School,
Jalandhar. Tiny-tots dressed up as Radha and Krishna performed various items. A skit was staged related to the birth of Lord Krishna. All students brought delicious sweets and they tip toed on the beats of dandiya songs. Principal Manju Arora explained that such celebrations relate us with our culture and nurture traditional values in the society. |
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Deepali, Navjot shine in BA examination results
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, August 27 College results
PCMSD college students received top position in BA IInd year (honours) in Punjabi and IVth in political science in GND University, Amritsar in BA II year (Hons.). Hardeep Kaur stood 1st in Guru Nanak Dev University merit list in B.A II Year Hons in Punjabi. She secured marks 128 out of 200 marks. Pooja Mishra, stood IVth in GND varsity merit list by securing 140 marks out of 200. All students passed examination in 1st division. Teachers’ training workshop
An informative, enlightening workshop on Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation was organized at SPPS Convent School, Begowal, with 50 teachers from four CBSE schools. The workshop was conducted by Pragya Sinha, an eminent resource person from NIIT, New Delhi. The workshop addressed the need and significance of effective implementation of CCE. Different stages of assessment and the features of formative and summative assessment with the help of activities were highlighted. Various group-activities were conducted with the help of teachers. Teachers were advised to evolve different methods of teaching their subjects with a focus on skill development. Freshers welcomed
As an effort to provide students a healthy environment for their multi-dimensional development, an introduction programme ‘Khushamdeed’ was organised by the Department of Commerce of Lyallpur Khalsa College in which students of M.Com II year welcomed new entrants of M Com I year. Song and dance performances and modeling events were performed. Deepak Dureja and Sandeep Kaur were selected as Mr and Ms. Fresher. Gurjeet and Neha were declared Miss charming and Miss beautiful respectively whereas Ranjit was chosen Mr. well -dressed. The function was presided over by Deepinder Singh Purewal. Speaking on the occasion principal of the college Dr GS Samra said such events could contribute a lot to minimize the evil of ragging from the academic institutions. |
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Cong seeks info on action taken against BJP on EC directions
Jalandhar, August 27 Advisor member of PPCC RTI & Grievances Cell, Sehgal stated, “It is an open secret that the BJP ran its office on the premises of Sheetla Mandir for decades. It closed its office from this place only after it had got a notice from the ECI a few months ago.” Sending copies of the e-mail to the ECI, CEO and Jalandhar DC cum DEO, Sehgal said, “Kindly provide me a copy of the action taken on my complaint by the officials.” Earlier, Pritam Singh visited the site on August 22, where the BJP was running its local office, as part of his inquiry entrusted to him by DC-cum-DEO Shruti Singh after directions by the ECI on the basis of a complaint by Sehgal. Alleging that the BJP was running its office from a temple premises, Sehgal demanded appropriate action against the party, but the inquiry officer visited the site today, weeks after the BJP closed its office, fearing action. The complainant Sanjay Sehgal was also asked to be present there, but he did not go there deliberately, terming the visit as an eyewash. He said action should be taken against the BJP for running its office from the temple premises for several decades. Earlier, in May, the ECI had directed Shruti Singh to take necessary action as per
the law on the basis of her inquiry report on the complaint of Sehgal against the BJP for running its local office from a temple premises. Shruti, in turn, asked Pritam Singh to conduct an inquiry who visited the site three months after the instructions from the ECI to the DC- cum-DEO. In between, the BJP closed its office.
After the BJP leader Manit Malhotra moved a petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court regarding the alleged unauthorised construction of shops on the local Congress Bhawan premises. Sehgal filed the complaint with the ECI for taking appropriate action against the BJP for running its local office from a temple premises. In his online complaint to Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath and Punjab CEO Sehgal, said, "The BJP is running its district office in Jalandhar from Sheetla Mandir complex, a religious place and in complete violation of the guidelines of the Election Commission. |
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Dump sans container a problem for shopkeepers
Jalandhar, August 27 Actually, around 6 feet wall is constructed around three sides of the dump located near Preet Nagar Gurdwara, but no container is placed near the dump. As a result, the filth keeps on floating in the accumulated water which enters nearby shops and houses. A shopkeeper Sangat Singh said, "The dump should be immediately shifted from this area, as it is not only creating problems for nearby shopkeepers and residents but also causing a lot of inconvenience to devotees visiting the gurdwara to pay their obeisance." Another shopkeeper Sukhraj Singh said, "If the Municipal Corporation (MC) authorities do not want to shift this dump, they should at least place here a container. If they fail to do so in the coming days, they will be left with no option but to start an agitation for that." Aware of the problem being faced by the shopkeepers and devotees, area councillor Bhagwant Prabhakar has already raised the issue at the MC house meeting of placing a container here without any delay, but to no avail so far. He said he would again take up the issue of placing here a container immediately with the MC authorities.
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Jalandhar, August 27 Members of the committee also warned to hold protests-rallies and dharnas at the bus terminus of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and other cities if their demands were not fulfilled. Amrik Singh, convener of the joint action committee, while talking to media persons, alleged that permits issued to private transporters were against the norms of transport policy and issued under political pressure. He said as per the policy, there should be 60-40 ratio of the buses being plied by the government and private transporters. — TNS
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