HEALTH

Kidney donation case: DMCH refutes allegations
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 8
The state government’s Human Organ Transplantation Committee, headed by the Principal of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital has said the kidney transplantation of Jagser Singh was done after completing all formalities and checking the records that were verified by the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police after due verification

The hospital authorities in a press not issued today said the Transplantation Committee comprising of four members, including Principal, DMCH (the chairman), Civil Surgeon, Head or its representative, the Department of Forensic Medicine, CMC and Mr S.R. Wadera, Senior Advocate used to operate from DMC. The authorities said tagging the name of DMC alongwith this committee was objectionable and unjustified.

The authorities said the donor Jagser Singh in his application had said he was a truck driver of the accused Sukhdev Singh, which was duly attested as identified by the Executive Magistrate Mr A.S. Pawar. The said affidavit was further witnessed by Mr Dalip Singh Bhatia, a city-based advocate and the Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat, Mr Baldev Singh, VPO Sahibana, that Jagser Singh was ready to donate his kidney to Sukhdev Singh without any consideration.

He was permitted by the committee to donate his kidney but when the committee received a letter from the state government that police inquiry should be conducted to know the factual position, the committee suspended its permission and asked the recipient to contact the Chairman of the committee.

The police after verification, informed the chairman of the committee on January 31, 2000, that particulars of Jagser Singh (the donor) were correct and only after thorough investigations, the chairman of the committee renewed the necessary permission.

90 donate blood on Thalassaemia Day
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 8
To celebrate International Thalassaemia Day and to motivate masses to donate blood, the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital today organised its third annual medicos blood donation camp in the Department of Transfusion Medicine. As many as 90 consultants, medical students, nursing staff and paramedical staff donated blood.

Dr Sandeep Puri, Medical Superintendent, DMCH, inaugurated the camp. Dr Puri, Dr R.J. Singh, Dr Praveen Sobti, Dr Bharti Uppal, Dr Puneet Pooni, Dr Alka Dogra, Dr Manisha Gupta and Dr Anil Puri, Medical Officer, Hero Cycles, and Dr Dilpreet Brar, among others, donated blood.

The camp was organised under the supervision of Dr Praveen Sobti, in charge thalassaemia unit, DMCH, Dr Amarjit Kaur, in charge, Department of Transfusion Medicine, DMCH, Dr Parneet and Dr Rohit Mehra. The blood collected will be used for the treatment of 120 thalassaemic children registered with the unit.

“We started this unit in September, 1999, and at that time we had only 15 patients registered with us. Today we have 120 thalassaemic children and 140 units of blood are required every month for their treatment,” said Dr Praveen Sobti.

Anti-polio campaign monitored
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 8
The Director Health Services, Dr Joginder Singh alongwith with the Civil Surgeon, Dr J.S.Bhullar visited various slum areas of the district to monitor the Mop-Up Polio Campaign here today.

According to a press note the 1,200 teams of health workers were supervised by Dr J.G.Vohra, Medical Officer, Dr Kuldip Sahni District Vaccination Officer and sector 16 level medical officers.

The Civil Surgeon also took a meeting of the doctors in-charge to get the progress report of the campaign. Over 55 rickshaws have been deputed to spread awareness among the masses.