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Pulse polio drive
from Nov 5 DERA BASSI, Oct 28 — To chalk out the programme for the ensuing nation-wide pulse polio eradication drive starting on November 5, Mr Sher Singh Sidhu, SDM, has chaired a meeting of non-government organisations, government officials and some prominent social workers of the subdivision. Mr Bhupinder Singh Saini, Chairman, pulse polio drive, said that a subdivisional-level panch and sarpanch sammelan and a seminar on pulse polio eradication would be organised at Saini Bhavan in Dera Bassi on November 4. Capt Kanwaljit Singh, Finance and Planning Minister of Punjab, will be the chief guest. He disclosed that about 25,000 children will be vaccinated during the drive. To achieve the target, 103 booths (10 in urban and 93 in rural areas) and four mobile vans have been pressed into service. |
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‘65 per cent patients don’t
require surgery’ CHANDIGARH, Oct 28 — The second day of video conferencing on “International Spine and Spinal Injuries’’ (ISSICON) 2000 commenced with the demonstration of the use of baclofen in spastic patients by Dr Marchettini from Italy. He explained baclofen is a muscle relaxant drug, which is useful for reducing the
plasticity, which is characterised by extensive stiffness of the limbs following spinal or head injury which disables the patients to perform daily activities. Implantation of the pump is a simple surgical procedure. However, at present it costs $ 5,000. Prof Meyers from the USA pointed out that 65 per cent of his patients require non surgical means as their cases got reported to the spine centre immediately after one injury. Except Methyl Prednisolone, the use of rest of the drugs is still in experimental stages. Similarly reimplantation of the stem cells and regeneration of the spinal cord cells is, to be put in practical use. In the session of surgical management of spinal injuries, Prof Raj Bahadur delivered a lecture on thoracolumbar injuries through video link from Chandigarh. He emphasised that the injured spine can be stabilised anteriorly or posteriorly or by the combined anterior and posterior approach depending upon the component of the spine involved in the injury. He also shared his experience of treating 145 patients at the GMCH. The conclusions drawn by him matched with the observations of the Prof Meyers of USA. In the panel discussion on management of spinal injuries, the consensus was that early stabilisation indeed enhances early mobilisation, which improves physical, mental and social rehabilitation of the patient. |
5 national records broken CHANDIGARH, Oct 28 — As many as five national records and eleven meet records were set on the opening day of the 12th North Zone Athletic Meet for boys and girls, which began at the Panjab University, here today. In the 10-km walk, in the under-20 boys’ section, Vijay Gehlot of Uttar Pradesh created a national record clocking 42:02.6 seconds which was earlier held by Gurdev Singh of Punjab in 1998 with timings of 43:001 seconds. Another national meet record was also broken in the under-18 section by Gurmeet Singh of Punjab, established with new timings of 45:02.9 seconds. Previous record was held by Vijay of UP. Monica Joon, a class IX student of Gyan Bharti School, Delhi, created a record in shot put by throwing at a distance of 11.06 metres in the under-16 section. She bettered the old record held by Sandra Deboza of Karnataka in 1998 with a distance of 10.46 metres. Distance runner Mukesh Yadav lead all way and won gold medal with a national meet record in 5000-metre race with timings of 14:51.0 seconds. The earlier record was held by Jai Prakash in 1994 with a timings of 15:02 seconds. Results — Shot put: Sukhchain (Pb) 1; Jagminder (Chd) 2; and Jaiveer (Har) 3. Ball badminton tourney Dev Samaj College for Women-XI, Sector 45, will take on Government College for Girls XI, Sector 42, while MCM DAV College for Women XI to face Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 21, in the semi-finals of the girls’ section of the Chandigarh Junior Ball Badminton Championship being played here at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. In the boys’ section, the semi-finalists included SD Public School, Sector 32, Unified Ball Badminton Club, Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, and Coaching Centre, Sector 41. Cricket tournament The Palsora Club outplayed the Naval Club by 14 runs in the semi-final of the Under-16 Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Cricket Tournament played here today. Brief scores: Palsora Club:137 runs all out (Sukhwinder Singh 41, Pardeep 22 and, Sunil 4 for 22). Naval Club: 123 runs all out in 21.4 overs (Rohit 52, Ajay 2 for 27, Jatinder 2 for 38; and Rohit 2 for 19). Cricket trials The Panchkula District Cricket Association will hold trials for the selection of the Panchkula under-16 cricket team for the Haryana Inter-District Cricket Tournament (Rajinder Goel trophy) tomorrow at Manav Kendra grounds, Mansa Devi Complex, at 8 am. This was disclosed by Mr Sandeep Moudgil, secretary of the association. |
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Chandigarh chess results CHANDIGARH, Oct 28 — The Chandigarh (under-18) Chess Championship commenced today at St. Xaviers Senior Secondary School, Sector-44. The tournament is being conducted by the Chandigarh Chess Association to select two boys and two girls who will represent Chandigarh in the nationals at Chennai in November. Chetan Vikas, Preeti Gupta and Anmol Razdan were leading with three points at the end of the third round. Points position at the end of the third round: 3 points: Preeti Gupta, Chetan Vikas, Anmol Razdan; 2 points: Shweta, Rohit Chodha, Anup Gupta, Kavitt Bhandari, Simranjeet Singh, Jatin Mahajan Ranjit S. Badwal, Mohit; 1½ points: Jatin Kaushal; 1 point: Jaskaranjit Singh, Shifa Mahajan, Sanjay Thakur Anmol Bhagat, Nikhil Chopra, Prince Deep; ½ point: Shishank Wali; zero: Dhananjay, Aarjav Raj, Sahil
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No facilities at
building sites CHANDIGARH, Oct 28 — Even after spending lakhs of rupees on the construction of two buildings, the Regional Pesticide Testing Lab (RPTL) and the Department of Forests and Environment have failed to take possession of these due to a lack of development facilities. The buildings constructed by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) on the Sector 31 Dakshin Marg lie abandoned as there is no approach road, sewerage and water-supply line. The buildings that are near the office of the Confederation of Indian Industries, have been built in a depression and hence require filling upto the plinth level. About 20 feet away is a building of the RPTL and another of the Forest Department, the construction of which is still on. Officials of the CPWD say that it is the responsibility of the Administration to construct an approach road. They said the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) should lay a water-supply and sewerage line there. The officials also say that the CPWD is only a construction agency and it is not supposed to make these facilities available at the sites. They say that they have written to the agencies concerned many times in this regard, but nothing has been done so far. Sources in the CPWD say that the RPTL and Forest Department spent Rs 75 lakh and Rs 60 lakh, respectively, on the construction of the buildings. Presently, the organisations are operating from rented offices and the CPWD is bearing the expenses of employing a watchman for the RPTL building. Mr Mukesh Anand, Executive Engineer of the MCC, says, “We had to prepare the estimate of the total expenditure on the work. As the buildings have been built in a depression, the ground around these has to be filled up. The MCC does not have enough funds for this and the Administration has taken up the matter. However, I don’t know when will the work begin.” Mr Puranjit Singh, Chief Engineer of the MCC, says, “The departments had approached us about the lack of facilities, but we are facing a paucity of funds. We have requested the Administration to take up the job, but have received no reply from it so far. The Administration might take up the work, because otherwise, it could have refused to do it long ago.” Various efforts to contact the Chief Engineer of the UT Administration, Mr R.K. Jain, were not fruitful.
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