HEALTH

Blood bank inaugurated
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 15
A Rotary Blood Bank was inaugurated at Shri Krishna Charitable Hospital today by Rotarian Harminder Singh. Over Rs 25 lakh have been spent on the equipment and construction of the blood bank.

Mr D.P. Sharma, general secretary of the charitable institute said Rs 11.61 lakh spent on the equipment were donated by Rotary International. A sum of Rs 12.85 lakh had been spent on the land, construction and furniture by Shri Krishna (C) Hospital Society.

A blood donation camp was also held on the occasion which was inaugurated by Dr (Mrs) Rajinder Kaur, Civil Surgeon. Mr Sharma said the blood collected at the camp would be donated to the district Red Cross Society.

The function was presided over by Mr Harnam Dass Johar, MLA. In his address, Mr Johar said the social and voluntary organisations should come forward to organise such blood donation camps. The NSS cadets should also collect the blood in the colleges. He said the state was doing a commendable job in organising blood donation camps.

Others who graced the occasion were Rotarians Surendra Seth and Mohan Singh Sachdeva, Mr P.L.Singla, president, Shri Krishna Charitable Society, Mr D.P.Sharma and Mr Vishvamitra Bhandari.

Civil Hospital staff stage dharna
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 15
Employees of the Civil Hospital staged a dharna to protest against the non-payment of salaries here today.

The protesting employees alleged that the salary slips of the employees for February-March had been prepared and passed by the department. But the salary cheques had been stopped by the District Treasury Office. “It has been over 15 days now that we have not been paid our salary,” said an employee. Later, they called of the dharna on assurance by the Civil Surgeon.