HEALTH

IMA comes to aid of ‘harassed’ doctor
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Sept 6 — Dr Gursharan Singh, President, local chapter of the Indian Medical Association, has expressed his support to Dr Satish Arora, who is being accused of removing the kidney of a patient without his knowledge.

In a press note released here, the IMA President labelled these allegations as baseless and concocted. The matter had come up in the limelight when Major Ram, a handicapped patient of Kang Arian village, near Phillaur, alleged a few days ago that Dr Satish Arora had removed his kidney without his knowledge.

Dr Satish strongly refuted the charges made by the patient, saying that kidney transplant was a major operation which could not be done at a place like Phillaur. The procedure involved many doctors and legal hitches that it was not possible to remove the kidney at one place and transplant it at another, he said.

SPORT

SDP School enter semi-final of inter-school tournament
From Our Sports Reporter

LUDHIANA, Sept 6 — Sanatan Dharam Pracharak (SDP) Senior Secondary School reached the semi-final of Ludhiana Zone1 Inter-School (under-19) Cricket Tournament. SDP defeated Sanatan Vidya Mandir by six wickets in the quarter-final held here today at Government Model Senior Secondary School, PAU.

The batting by Aseem, Ajay and Sunny led the team to a comfortable victory. Aseem scored 32 runs in just 24 balls and remained not out while Ajay and Sunny scored 47 runs in 54 balls and 27 runs in 28 balls, respectively. Rajeev took three wickets in four overs for 14 runs.

SDP won the toss and invited SVM to bat first. SVM made 118 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. SDP reached the target in 19.2 overs, while losing only four wickets.

Punjab ‘A’ chess team announced 
From Our Sports Reporter

LUDHIANA, Sept 6 — Vikas Sharma, Arvinderpreet Singh and Harkamal Singh, all from Ludhiana, and Ashwani Tiwari from Jalandhar form the Punjab ‘A’ chess team, which will participate in the National ‘B’ Chess Championship, scheduled to be held at Jamshedpur (Bihar) from October 9 to 24.

The boys were selected on the basis of their performance during the Punjab State Chess championship, conducted at Jalandhar from September 1 to 3. In this championship, Ashwani Tiwari beat Vikas Sharma in the final to emerge winner. Arvinderpreet Singh and Harkamal Singh finished third and fourth, respectively.