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PGI interviews put off again Chandigarh, May 6 The PGI authorities have given no reason why these interviews are being postponed, but sources state that it is because of the unavailability of the PGI Director who is on leave due to health problems. Other than the inconvenience caused to the applicants, this decision has also caused commotion among the PGI faculty members who had applied for these posts along with outsiders. Many heads of departments were banking on these selections to meet the shortage of specialists. Interestingly, at least one of head of a department is vying for the post of Professor. This is the second time that these interviews have been postponed. These interviews were earlier scheduled to be held early this year but were postponed after an express request to this effect by additional professors, waiting to be professors under the Assessment Promotion Scheme
(APS). Their plea was that if these open posts are filled, the selected professors would either get the same seniority as them and in case the APS does not fructify, the selected professors will be senior to them. Twenty six of these additional professors were promoted as Professors and 10 associate professors as additional professors in March by the PGI under the
APS, after which the process for selection to the open posts started. Many of these APS additional professors and professors had also applied for the 14 posts of professor in the open selections. The PGI is facing an acute shortage of specialists in some departments like cardiology and endocrinology. The PGI has a total sanctioned faculty strength of 338 members out of which over 70 are currently vacant. The PGI recruits faculty directly at the level of Assistant Professor and Professor. Of the sanctioned strength of 68 professors at the moment, 16 are vacant and the PGI had advertised for filling 14 seats. The sanctioned strength of assistant professors is 150, of which over one third (52) are lying vacant. The present selection, it was hoped would fill up atleast 50 of these posts. This sanctioned strength does not include the 26 professors who have been made professors in the
APS. The PGI Director was admitted to the hospital’s cardiac care unit on Saturday after he complained of chest pain. Although he is said to be in good health, he has been shifted to the private room and yet not discharged. The Director is member of the selection committee which was to conduct these interviews. Sources also state that people from as far as Australia and Dubai had applied for these posts. |
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Dr Trehan performs path-breaking surgery Chandigarh, May 6 Explaining the harvesting procedure and the advantage of EVH over traditional form, Dr Naresh Trehan, Executive Director, Escorts Heart Institute said,“ Saphenous vein in the leg is an essential conduit for coronary artery bypass surgery. Before today, the harvesting of this vein was performed through a longitudinal incision which can result in wound complications in 20- 40% of the patients. Inspite of saving many lives, this conventional form still had many risks involved in terms of post-surgical neurologic impairment, incidence of stroke and of course scarring. EVH is a sophisticated and advanced procedure which has significantly reduced these risk factors making the doctor’s and the patient’s life much more at peace than ever before.” Elaborating more on the technique, Mr. Robert Kollpanter, said, “Endoscopic techniques have heralded a new era in vein harvesting, resulting in significantly lower wound morbidity and less incision pain. These surgical procedures should be performed only by physicians having adequate training and familiarity with such techniques. He further added, “ I am very glad that India has become one of the front-runners in the world in adopting new medical techniques and more and more hospitals and doctors continue this tradition”. The surgery is performed by the state-of-the-art vaso view system from Guidant, who pioneers lifesaving technology, giving a better life to 7 million cardiac and vascular patients worldwide. Vaso view is designed to minimise the patient’s scarring and risk of infection at the time of ambulation. Apart from offering benefits to the patients, Vaso view is also a delight for the doctors. Its inline instrumentation allows for consistent positioning and ease of use. As per a recent study done by ‘The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ wound complications are significantly very less at the rate of 5% in surgeries performed through EVH vis-à-vis 14.2% in case of traditional procedures. Apart from the clinical complications, which the patients undergo through traditional procedures, there is also a damage to the leg in terms of scarring occurring all along its length. EVH minimises scarring and the patient can be out of the hospital much earlier. |
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Dr K. S. Chug gets
FRCP Chandigarh, May 6 An official communication from the Royal College of
Physians, London, informed him of the decision of the college authorities for honouring Dr Chugh with the fellowship for his contributions in medicine. He has been invited by the college to receive the degree at the convocation to be held in London on July 3. Dr Chug is the lone Indian who was earlier conferred with the honorary Fellowship of American College of Physicians (FACP). He has many other national and international awards to his credit, which include the Dr B.C.Roy National Award as an eminent Medical Man of the country in 1992 and a distinguished international award by the National Kidney Foundation of USA besides 27 others. Dr Chugh is described as “father of nephrology” in India, having organised the first training programme in 1969 and having trained most of the renal academicians and practitioners. He is the founder of the Indian Society of nephrology and has played a key role in several international congresses in the field of Nephrology held in India and abroad, including USA, Australia and UK . At present he is a member of the Council of the International Society of Nephrology. In addition to authoring several chapters in various books, Dr Chugh has written 396 research papers most of which have been published in international
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Immunisation drive
for kids Panchkula, May 6 Ms Jyoti Arora, the Deputy Commissioner, said, under this programme, 818 children have been given the BCG vaccine and 843 have been protected against measles. Also, 1,074 children have been administered the DPT vaccine and polio vaccine has been given to children in the first phase of the drive against polio. She also said the department had given the first and second doses of Vitamin A, besides booster doses of the DPT and polio vaccines to 2,827 children. Last month, the TT vaccine was given to 1,007 antenatal women and 823 children were administered the DT vaccine. Ms Arora said 556 children upto the age of 10 and 484 children in the age group of 11 to 16 had been given the TT vaccine, 1,567 children had been given the FS Small dose and 1,540 children had received the FS Large vaccine. Ms Arora said, last month, the department had performed 94 family-planning operations and examined 3,724 samples under its malaria-eradication programme. |
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Federation wants dispensary to continue
Chandigarh, May 6 The general secretary of the federation said a complex of allopathic, ayurvedic, homoeopathic and dental dispensaries were functioning at the main Secretariat while the Mini Secretariat had an ayurvedic dispensary only. He stated that if this too was closed down, a large number of patients who were undergoing treatment in the dispensary, would suffer. The dispensary catered to a large number of employees of the Mini Secretariat along with employees of the police headquarters, some adjoining Central Government departments and retired employees settled in nearby sectors, he said. The federation also warned that in case the dispensary was closed, its members would be compelled to take drastic steps against the closure of the dispensary. |
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‘Accept long-pending demands’ Chandigarh, May 6 Addressing the employees, the general secretary, Mr L.K.
Tewari, stated that the administration was testing their patience and the reason that they were not taking extreme steps to bring attention to their demands was because they were concerned about patient care services. These employees are demanding vacations at par with the Class I employees of the hospital. Meanwhile, the contractual employees of the hospital, who were relieved of their duties, continued with their agitation on the 15th day
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Summer timings at GMCH-32 from May 16 Chandigarh, May 6 The OPD timings will be from 8 am to 2pm and the OPD registration will be done from 7 am to 10 am daily. Emergency services will function round the clock. |
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‘RSFI president acting arbitrarily’ Chandigarh, May 6 Jagpal Singh also alleged that the RSFI organised the international match between England and India in August last year at Chandigarh, without informing or associating the CRSA. The national meet held in 1999 by the RSFI at Chandigarh was also not conducted with the consent of the CRSA, as the latter had requested not to hold the same in the city. He also alleged that in spite of the fact that nine skaters of the city had not been allowed by the CRSA to take part in the 2001 nationals held at Visakhapatnam, yet the RSFI president allowed them to play in the
above said nationals. He further alleged that the RSFI president had also suspended a number of state units by constituting ad hoc committees in many states, which included J&K, Delhi, UP, MP, Maharashtra. Jagpal Singh has also alleged that the election meeting of the RSFI held on May 10, 2000, at Kolkata was ‘illegal’, as per the meeting minutes circulated by the RSFI president.
Snooker tourney Yogesh Batra got the better of Tej Pal Singh at 2-0, while Saurabh Nayyar beat Rohit Dagar (2-0) on the fourth day of the third Saurabh Khattar Memorial Snooker Tournament played here today at the Chandigarh Club. In the other matches of the day, Judge Bali beat Akshay Goyal 2-1. A. Joshi defeated Y.Batra 2-1 while Suresh Chaudhary defeated Gaurav Gulati 2-0. In the billiards matches played, Anand Chibber defeated Harinder Singh (150-149) while Deepinder Singh beat P. Sachdev 152-76. |
Administrator’s Advisory Council Chandigarh, May 6 According to an official announcement, the term of the council is two years. The council has 41 non-official members, besides official members. Chairman — Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh. Vice-Chairperson — Adviser to the Administrator, ex-officio members — All Administrative Secretaries in the Chandigarh Administration, the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, the Deputy Commissioner, the Senior Superintendent of Police, the President, Zila Parishad, Chandigarh, and the President, Panchayat Samiti; Members — Mrs Lalit Joshi, MCC, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mr Satya Pal Jain, Mr Harmohan Dhawan, Mr Yash Pal Mahajan, President, BJP, Mr Dharam Pal Gupta, BJP Ad-hoc Committee, Mr B.B. Behl, President, Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, Mr Gurpartap Singh Riar, President, Akali Dal, Principal Gurbachan Singh, President, Nationalist Congress Party, Mr Mata Ram Dhiman, President, BSP, Mr C.B. Jaiswal, President, Samajvadi Party, Mr Joginder Singh Sawhney, All-India Shiromani Akali Dal, Mr I.S. Paul, Chairman, CII (North Zone), Mr Bal Krishan Kapoor, Vice-President, Federation of Small Scale Industries, Mr Purshotam Mahajan, President, Traders Cell, Brig M.L. Kataria, Mr Ram Pal Sharma of INTUC, Mr Devi Dayal Sharma, General Secretary, AITUC, Mohd. Shehnaz Goorsi, President, CITU, Mr Waris Masih, Chairman, Pastorate Committee of CNI Church, Mr Kewal Krishan Adiwal, former Mayor, MCC, Mr Pavittar Singh Namdhari, Mr Salim Akbar, Mr Salim Mohd. Khan, Chairman, All-India Muslim Welfare, Major D.S. Sandhu, Major-Gen Rajendra Nath, Major-Gen K.S. Bajwa, Mr Milkha Singh, Mrs Ajinder Kaur, Ms Neelam Mansingh, Prof K.N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Mrs Usha Gupta, Principal, MCM DAV College, Mrs Nomita Singh, Architect, Ms Harjinder Kaur, Ms Kamla Sharma, former Chairman, Chandigarh Social Welfare Advisory Board, Mrs Salochna Ahuja, President, Deaf and Dumb Society, Mr P.H. Vaishnav, Mr B.S. Ojha, Mr Sada Nand, Mr Pala Ram, sarpanch, Kaimbwala, and Col. A.B. Singh. |
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13 bus drivers challaned Panchkula, May 6 Besides, drivers of 13 buses have also been challaned for not possessing necessary documents. These buses were being plied by various private schools located in Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar. According to Mr Jagtar Singh, District Transport Officer, a private bus was being plied on the Chandigarh-Gorakhpur route without any permit and even the driver did not have the necessary documents with him. The bus was carrying over 30 passengers. It has been impounded. Two tractor-trailers, owned by a resident of Sector 18, Panchkula, have also been impounded for being used illegally for transporting gravel and other goods, he added. |
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Accident-prone sites to be
earmarked
SAS Nagar, May 6 It had been seen in the past that there were a number of places in the town which had seen a spurt in the number of mishaps. He said traffic cops had been given red flags with fluorescent ‘stop’ signs on them, to check those bypassing traffic rules. |
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