HEALTH

TB screening camp at Focal Point
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 17
In a series of organising TB screening camps at Focal Point by the Ludhiana TB Eradication Society (regd), fifth screening camp was organised at Omax Bikes Ltd, Focal Point, Ludhiana. The four previous camps which were organised at Aarti Steel Ltd, Focal Point, Mehta Engineering, Sidh Tools Kohara. Farm Parts, Focal Point. The next camp in series will be at the Central Tool Room, Focal Point, Ludhiana and SKG, Graintac Industries Budhewal.

The camp was inaugurated by Mr R.K. Mehta, Managing Director Omax Bikes Ltd. This camp was attended by medial, ENT, surgical, eye, gynaecology and skin specialists. In this camp about 300 patients were screened for tuberculosis, X-rays and lab tests were done free of cost by the Ludhiana TB Eradication Society (Regd.), general medicines were also distributed free of cost.

Mr Atul Mehta appealed to the workers and industrialists present at the occasion to come forward for this noble cause .

The doctors who participated in the camp were Dr Satish Nauharia and Dr (Mrs) Savita Nauharia, Dr Manish Narad, Dr Vinod Beri and Dr Rajesh Batra and Dr Ravi Singla. Social workers of the city present at the camp were Mr Navin Sharama and Mr Prem Sagar Aggarwal.

According to Mr Baljit Singh Sahi, PRO of the society, the next step of the society would be to highlight the working of the society and to contact World Health Organisation. A team headed by Mr Charanjit Singh, chairman of the society would be meeting the higher authorities and make them aware of the need for the Focal Point area to have a permanent TB hospital. The Ludhiana TB Eradication Society also claimed that Dr Rajinder Kaur Civil Surgeon Ludhiana had assured her full support to the society by providing TB medicines, free of cost, to the ESI card holders.

ADMINISTRATION

Govt not to press for nursing homes’ registration
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 17
The Punjab Government will not press for the registration of nursing homes in the state as it was being resisted by the medical community. According to Dr Gursharan Singh, president of the Ludhiana chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the assurance in this regard was given to the Punjab IMA president, Dr O.P.S. Kande, by the Health Minister, Dr Baldev Raj Chawla, at a function in Amritsar today.

Dr Singh said, Dr Chawla had assured the IMA that in case it (the IMA) did not want it, the government will not go ahead with the proposal. Dr Kande also raised the issue of the registration of an FIR against a doctor in Philaur under section 304 of the IPC. Dr Chawla assured that he would ensure that the case is not registered before it is thoroughly investigated.

Ban on burning of residual straw
Our Correspondent

Fatehgarh Sahib, September 17
To check the apprehension of a large-scale pollution in the environment and spread of fire in fields, the district administration has enforced a complete ban on the burning of residual paddy straw after harvesting by the farmers in the district. The ban order would remain in force till November 15.

Mr Vikas Partap, District Magistrate, in an order stated that the ban on the burning of straw had to be issued as a large number of farmers used to burn straw after harvesting and the widespread smoke caused a serious problem to the environment. He said due to smoke, people were affected by diseases like asthama.

The DC cautioned the farmers that with the burning of straw in their fields, most of the nutrients were destroyed in the upper layers of the soil, which weakened the fertility level of the land. He called upon farmers to get rid of the paddy straw from the fields through other conventional methods.