HEALTH

Free treatment for senior citizens
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Feb 7 — Naturopath Dr S.S. Goindi, co-founder of the Health and Nutrition Mission, will be available for free visits to the ailing senior citizens of Chandigarh.

Dr Goindi who was secretary of the All-India Nature Cure Federation, Rajghat, New Delhi, for a number of years, is a senior naturopath and a well-known food therapist. His endeavour to solve chronic health problems with change of diet based on nearly 30 years of work in the field of natural dietetics, have met with remarkable success.

Appointments for free visits to senior citizens suffering from chronic diseases can be fixed with Dr Goindi at telephone No. 775032.

SPORT

Vikas adjudged best athlete
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Feb 7 — Vikas Kumar was declared as best athlete in the annual sports meet of the local DAV College, Sector 10, which concluded here this evening.

The participants had a memorable day with the chief guest Mr G.S. Randhawa the first Arjuna Award winner in athletics who gave away prizes. Mr Randhawa appreciated the college for taking lead by winning 30th continuous win in the Sir Shadi Lal Shield for general efficiency in sports.

The results are: 100 m race: Lakhvir Singh 1, Sunil Kumar 2 and Sandeep Beniwal 3; 200 m: Lakhvir Singh 1, Rajesh Kumar 2 and Sunil Kumar 3; 800 m: Vikas Kumar 1, Narinder Singh 2 and Bhupinder Rawat 3; 5000 m : Vikas Kumar 1, Ashok Pokhrel 2 and Manmohan Singh 3; Long jump: Mayank Bhushan 1, Rajesh Saroj 2 and Rakesh Kumar 3.

TT tourney
Rajiv Bajaj and Rajan Rikhi won their doubles match in the 6th Tribune Table Tennis Tournament played here on Wednesday.

In open doubles, Rajiv Bajaj and Rajan Rikhi beat Sunil Dutt and Umesh 21-16, 21-12; Surinder Rawat and Arvind Saini beat Sushil Tiwari and Parkash 21-10, 21-11; Sukhwinder and Munish beat Tarun and Raju 21-10, 21-15.

In singles Sunil Dutt beat Vinay Mishra 21-17, 21-16. 

College athletics meet concludes
From Our Correspondent

DERA BASSI, Feb 7 — Sapna and Jagdeep Singh were adjudged the best athletes among the girls, and the boys, sections, respectively, in the 24th annual athletics meet of Government College, Dera Bassi, which concluded here yesterday.

The Principal of the college, Mrs Kamla Sood, said Mr S.P. Dhawan, DPI (C), Punjab, distributed prizes.

Results of the second day contests are: Race (100 m) boys — Amrish Kumar 1; Jaswinder Saini 2; and Swaranjit Singh 3. Girls — Sapna 1; Pooja Narula 2; and Pinki and Parvinder Kaur 3. 400 m (boys) — Harjinder Singh 1; Gurwinder Singh 2; and Kamaljit Singh 3. Girls — Poonam Rani 1; Sapna 2; and Pinki 3.

1500 m (boys) — Avtar Singh 1; Sudershan Bhardwaj 2; and Jaswinder Saini 3. Girls — Jaspreet 1; Kuldip Kaur 2; and Pinki 3. Long jump (boys) — Vikram 1; Harjinder Singh 2; and Vikas Singh 3. Girls — Sapna 1; Jagdip Kaur 2; and Kamaljit Kaur and Pinki 3. High jump (girls) — Sapna 1; Jagdeep Kaur 2; and Kamaljit Kaur 3. Shot put (boys) — Jagdip Singh 1; Gurpreet Singh 2; and Gurwinder Singh 3. Girls — Renu Bala 1; Poonam Raghav 2; and Pooja Thakur 3.

ADMINISTRATION

Construction begins in GMCH
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Feb 7 — Work on construction of the roof of cobalt unit in block D of the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, started today following a decision at the technical committee meeting to complete construction of blocks C and D of the institute.

Prof S.B.S. Mann, Director-Principal, GMCH, said block C was likely to be completed by September. The 225-crore GMCH was originally scheduled to be completed in 1999. At the meeting of representatives of the hospital and the UT Administration, it was decided to give the contract to the same contractor as he had agreed to work on old rates.

Block C is almost complete. The work was stalled about two-an-a-half years back following an inquiry by the Central Vigilance Commission when a part of one of the blocks under construction fell, causing the death of one person. With the commissioning of the general wards with 250 beds, besides 14 operation theatres, the hospital would start functioning to its capacity of 500 beds.