HEALTH

Raids on clinics to continue
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 27
Frequent raids would be conducted on nursing homes, registered under the PNDT Act 1994, in the city, to keep a check on cases of sex determination and female foeticide and to take appropriate action against them.

This was decided at a meeting of the advisory committee constituted under the PNDT Act 1994, held under the chairmanship of Dr Rameshwar Chander, Director Health Services, Chandigarh Administration in the office of Director, Family Welfare, old Health Centre Building, Sector 22, here today.

Dr Chander said that the problem was more prevalent in the middle and upper classes of society. Mr Minocha, set Director of Family welfare, UT added that the team constituted had recently raided three diagnostic centres in the city, one of which had been caught conducting the tests and against which a case had also been registered.

Dispensaries and hospitals were in better condition in Chandigarh as compared to their counterparts in the states of Punjab and Haryana, said Dr S.C. Sharma, District Extension and Media Officer.

Ms Ranjana Shahi, former Councillor said a delegation would meet the Commissioner, MCC, to appoint an official to have a record of abortees at the cremation grounds of Chandigarh in order to keep a tab on diagnostic centres.

FRCS for Dr Bose
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 27
Prof S.M. Bose, Head, Department of Surgery, PGI, Chandigarh, and currently President of the Association of Surgeons of India, has been awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, (FRCS) in recognition of his contribution to the field of surgical sciences. This has been conveyed by the Registrar of the college following a resolution by the Governing Council.

Prof Bose has also been invited to chair two scientific sessions at the forthcoming annual conference of the Association of Surgeons, Great Britain and Ireland. The subject of the sessions being “Excellence in surgical oncology and breast caner”, the areas in which Prof Bose has vast experience and expertise.

SPORTS

Plan to promote tennis in city
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, March 27
Mount Carmel School, Sector 47 and Total Tennis Academy have joined hands to run a tennis programme on the school premises under the name Mount Carmel Total Tennis Academy. According to Mr Charles Samuel, Principal of the school, this would help in producing tennis players. Samuel said the joint venture between TTA and the school will fulfill the long awaited demand of tennis facility in the southern sectors as tennis coaching to be given to all the deserving trainees.

Mr Charles said they also plan to promote tennis by providing free education to the outstanding tennis players who could not later afford their studies along with expenses on the game. Mount Carmel school will also send teams to various tournaments all over the region or even at the international level at the later stage.

Mr L.D. Kapoor, Chief Coach-cum-Director, TTA, was quite sure to produce results with positive attitude shown by the school management. The academy has three tennis courts and there is a plan to add a practice wall shortly.

Tennis meet

Digvijay and Gurvinder Singh will meet each other in the boys under-10 final on the second day of the Chandigarh Hot Weather Tennis Tournament being played at the CLTA Stadium, Sector 10, today. In boys under-12 section, those making it to the finals include Vijayant Malik and Sidharth Singh.

In the girls under-12 section, Inayat Khosla will play against Noor Paul and in under-14 Taskeen Bains and Alipt Sandhu sailed into the final.

In boys under-14 section, Vijayant Malik, Deepinder, Kinshuk and Gursher Singh reached the semi-final while in under-16 boys section, Dilpreet Gill, Gursher, Kinshuk and Izreek Singh entered the last four of the meet.

CGA to honour Dinesh Mongia
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 27
The Chandigarh Golf Association and Gurnam Singh and Company Tubewell Engineers will honour Dinesh Mongia for his outstanding performance in the recently concluded one-day series against Zimbabwe and also wish him all the best for the forthcoming West Indies tour at a function to be held at the CGA Golf Range tomorrow (Thursday) at 7.30 p.m.

ADMINISTRATION

Plan to computerise GH-16 okayed
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 27
On a day when the Chandigarh Administration planned to sign two memorandum of understandings (MoUs), one was stalled while the other one was given green signal. Both were regarding computerisation and IT-related programmes in the city.

The successful MoU was between the Administration and the C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) regarding the computerisation of the General Hospital, Sector 16. The one stalled was between the Administration and the Cisco Systems to launch the Cisco Networking Academy Programme.

The agreement for computerisation of the General Hospital was signed by Mr Karan A. Singh, Secretary, Health and Information Technology, on behalf of the Administration and by Mr M.R. Rajagopalan, Programme Coordinator, on behalf of the C-DAC (a Scientific Society of Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India).

The agreement has been signed in pursuance of the goal of the Administration for computerisation of the major public dealing departments as part of its IT policy. Computerisation of the hospital would result in greater efficiency of the various departments resulting in greater convenience for the patients.

The objective of the computerisation of the hospital is to collect, process and retrieve patient care and administrative information for all hospital activities to satisfy the functional requirement of the users. It also helps as a decision support system for the hospital authorities and the Health Department for developing comprehensive health care policies.

C-DAC and the Administration are introducing a state of the art IT solution in the hospital sector based on thin client architecture for the first time in the country. The project would be executed within seven months by the C-DAC.

The other MoU was postponed after members of the media and other waited for more than an hour. A new date will be announced soon.