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Scheme to revamp primary health services in
slums Chandigarh , April 5 According to Dr Rameshwar Chander, Director Health Services, these units are proposed to be set up on the pattern of the Centrally funded National Health Programme which started way back 1984. At that time, the city did not have as many slums as it has now, he said. Presently there are about 20 slum colonies in the city where as many as three lakh people, mostly migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, reside. According to the Director Health Services, most of these colonies, barring an odd exception like Indira colony, do not have satisfactory health- care services. The revamping unit staff will eventually establish a rapport with the community and bring about the concept of family welfare at their door step, said Dr Chander. Besides this, the Health Department is also aiming at conducting a pilot study to calculate the incidences of dental diseases among school-going children. As a part of this scheme, the city is proposed to be divided in four zones where 4,000 children from rural and urban areas will be identified on the basis of the decayed, missing and filled (DMF) index compiled by 16 dental officers of the Health Department. Based on the DMF index, an intensive dental awareness campaign amongst children between the age groups of 6 and 12 years will be launched where the teachers as well as children will be educated on oral health. |
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De-addiction camp on April
7 Chandigarh, April 5 People taking alcohol and drugs like smack, opium and other injectables will be treated free of cost at the camp. Apart from medicines to control withdrawal symptoms, psychological and social help to the patients as well as their families will also be provided during the camp. According to experts, drug addiction increases morbidity and mortality rates and the conventional treatment process in hospitals often fails because of rejection by the family members. According to the head of the Psychiatry Department, Prof B.S. Chavan, community camps are a useful way of dealing with alcohol and drug abuse as these ensure involvement of the community in the treatment process and also creates a social pressure on the drug-addicts. Besides organising such camps, the department also runs regular de-addiction centres at Palsaura on every Saturday, at Daddu Majra on Tuesday and at Maloya on Thursday, between 10 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. where apart from drug and alcohol abusers, patients suffering from psychological illness are also treated and medicines distributed free of cost. |
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Demand for cadre
review Chandigarh, April 5 According to the union, despite the constitution of a committee on May 27, 1995, for this purpose, which had submitted its report more than a year ago, the matter stands unresolved. Mr Chander has also expressed his anguish over the issue of the institute not releasing the Patient Care Allowance (PCA) for the groups B and A of the institute, despite a Committee recommendation. |
Sport meet concludes Chandigarh, April 5 The championship saw 110 participants of 10 states fighting for top
honours. Divya of Chattisgarh, Namrita of Madhya Pradesh and Juhi of Punjab got the maximum appreciation for their performances in the sub-junior’s, junior’s and senior’s sections, respectively. The championship was a joint effort of the NSDFF and the American Aerobic Association (AAA). Ms Manika Debnath, Secretary of the federation and Mr Christropher Ril, Director of the AAA, were the main organisers. Col B.S. Ahluwalia, Executive Director of the Patiala National Institute of Sports, praised the federation for holding this championship successfully. SAS NAGAR |
Mayor calls on Jacob Chandigarh, April 5 The Administrator, while giving them a positive response, assured them that he would be visiting Grain Market, Mani Majra, Mauli Jagran and Ram Darbar on April 12 to apprise himself of the problems of these
areas. The councillors pointed out the problems of their respective wards, besides highlighting the general problems of the city. The Mayor, and others sought that the rehabilitation colonies in Karsan, Bapu Dham, Indira Colony, Maloya, Dadu Majra, Mauli Jagran, and Palsora be converted from leasehold to freehold on the pattern of CHB. Ms Kamlesh talked about the poor condition of internal roads in Ram Darbar, besides problems of water-logging and storm water drainage. The Senior Deputy Mayor, Mr Gurcharan Dass Kala, highlighted the problems being faced by hundreds of residents of Mani Majra in obtaining NOCs on account of notices being served by MC for removing cantilevers of their houses, which were constructed long back. The councillors also took up the demand of increasing the share of MC in the taxes being collected by the Administration in the city keeping in view the quantum of civic work being handled by them. They also pointed out the recommendations of the Delhi Finance Commission in this regard and the MC share in taxes in Punjab and Haryana. The Governor was also apprised of the fact that a proposal sent in this regard, after being unanimously resolved in the House, was rejected by the Finance Commission on the ground that more grants-in-aid were being released to them than even recommended by the Finance Commission. The issue of increasing the share of MC in taxes from 50 to 100 per cent would again be taken up in the House, following which it will be forwarded to the Administration for a final nod. The councillors visited the Governor today after resolving their differences on several accounts in the presence of the CTCC president, Mr B.B. Bahl yesterday. Ms Satinder Dhawan, did not go with them since she had some personal assignment. She had not even attended the meeting yesterday since she was not informed of the same. In the meeting held yesterday under the chairmanship of Mr Bahl, it was decided that the Congress leaders, who were part of the 13 member co-ordination committee, would not take part in the discussions pertaining exclusively to the issues pertaining to the agenda of MC House and F and CC. They would give their viewpoint on party policies and forthcoming MC elections whenever called upon to do so. |
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Drive to monitor sale of cut
fruit Chandigarh, April 5 In a meeting held yesterday, The Medical Officer of Health ( MOH), Dr S.S Cheema directed that area supervisors to intensify the drive in their respective areas in public interest. Giving this information, Dr Cheema said that action was taken against fruit vendors in Sector 17 near Neelam cinema and in the bridge market area where lot of public comes to them. The entire city has been divided into four zones under the charge of health supervisors, who along with Chief Sanitary Inspectors and safai karamcharis target these areas generally in the afternoon from 3 pm to 6 pm. Mr Cheema said that the drive will be intensified in the next few days wherein all the officials who are empowered to take action against them will examine the articles of food and drinks being sold in the open in their respective areas and destroy the ones which are found unfit for human consumption. The officials will also ensure that the said articles are properly protected by wire gauge, glass against contamination by dust and flies. The authorities have also banned the sale of
ice, ice candies, aerated water sold through outlets under unhygienic conditions. Meanwhile, despite the ban the sale on cut fruit in the open is still continuing in most of the sectors including Sector 17 and people should abstain from eating such stuff for it may lead to diseases. People can contact the Area supervisors on the following numbers: Zone 1 — Sectors 5,6,7,8,26, 18, 19, 27, 28 and Mani majra — Mr Prem Singh (260343). Zone 2 — Sectors 2, 3, 4, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 — Mr Gian Chand (731084). Zone 3 — Sectors 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36,37,38,40, 41, 39, 42, 43 — Mr Hazara Singh (646316) Zone 4 — Sectors 20, 21, 0, 29, 34, 33, 32, 31, 44, 45, 46, 47 — Mr Amarjeet Singh (694073). |
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MC panel meeting next
week Chandigarh, April 5 The sub-committees have not been formed though the decision to form the five-member committee was taken almost a month and a half back in the House. A BJP councillor, Mr R.L. Arora, one of the members of the committee, when contacted, said a meeting of the committee would be called shortly and the nine sub-committees would be constituted soon after, in which all the councillors, both elected and nominated, would be given due representation. A few days back, they had planned to call a meeting, but the same has not been called so far The Congress Mayor had constituted these sub-committees a week after taking over the charge on January 5. The BJP councillors had alleged that the Mayor had misused his powers in constituting the same by giving over-representation to Congress councillors in 5 or 6 sub-committees, while seven BJP councillors figured only in one sub-committee. After these sub-committees were dissolved in the House amidst uproarious scenes and the powers of the Mayor were also withdrawn. The delay so far was on account of the confusion that who would call the meeting. While the Mayor said those who had dissolved the sub-committees should call the meeting as he too was just a member, the BJP councillors maintained that they were waiting for the Mayor to convene the meeting. Mr Arora said if the Mayor did not call the meeting in the next one or two days, they would themselves call the meeting. The five members of the committee are the Mayor, Mr Raj Kumar Goyal, BJP councillors Mr Gian Chand Gupta and Mr R.L. Arora, SAD councillor, Ms Harjinder Kaur and nominated councillor, Maj-Gen (retd) Rajindera Nath. |
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Lot of gas
in CNG plan Chandigarh, April 5 At a meeting of officials of the Administration and oil companies, it was brought out that the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) maintained this CNG pipeline and the CNG facility was needed here, keeping in mind the recent order of the Supreme Court to ban all non-CNG public transport buses from moving within New Delhi. It will cost several hundred crore rupees to lay a pipeline. A proposal to have a CNG-based power plant here had been dropped earlier due to this reason. The oil companies that attended the meeting had no stake in the pipeline. |
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