HEALTH

Awareness programme on heart ailments
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 27
The Annie Heart and Medical Centre in Sector 15 here has evolved an awareness programme for heart patients — “Dil Ke Maamle Men, Dimaag Se Len Kaam” — under which heart patients along with people in general would be made aware of the symptoms of heart disease along with the prevention aspects.

Dr Deepak Kaura, consultant cardiologist at the centre, said here today that in view of the growing heart problems, the centre had considered it its duty to make people aware of the causes and prevention of heart diseases. It was in this context that the programme had been launched. This would be a continued medical education programme and would run through seminars and various other presentations. An interactive website would also be added at a later stage, and a public contact programme would be launched in rural areas and city slums.

Dr Kaura said that medical treatment was very expensive today, and getting out of reach of the common people. Even medical insurance was helpful only to a certain limit. Treatment of heart diseases was even more expensive. In such a scenario, the centre has begun a planned campaign to provide affordable medical facilities to people. Yesterday, a free heart treatment camp was organised at the centre under the supervision of Dr Suman Bhandari and his team from Escorts Hospital, New Delhi. The patients at the camp had only to pay for the medical consumables. No hospital or doctor fee was charged.

Despite being a privately run hospital, profit was not the sole objective, claimed Dr Kaura. Earlier, the centre had provided free treatment to Mr Bal Krishan, a kulfi-seller from Sector 20, Chandigarh, when he suffered a massive cardiac arrest. “When we came to know that Mr Bal Krishan had no money for necessary tests, what to talk of treatment, we decided to provide the facility of tests and treatment to him for free. Even the stent was got donated free of cost, which would have cost him around Rs 50,000 in a normal situation. Mr Bal Krishan is recuperating now and heading towards a healthy life again, he said.

SPORTS

City players make it to next round
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 27
Inayat Khosla and Kinshuk Sharma both from Chandigarh lived upto expectations in the girls’ and boys’ sections respectively, with both moving into the next round of the Total Tennis AITA zonal ranking tennis tournament being played on St Soldier’s Total Tennis Academy premises, Sector 16, Panchkula. Today, 24 matches were played with eight in under-14 girls’ section and 16 in under-14 boys’ section.

Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Ms S.K. Jagpal, Administrator, St Soldier’s Divine Public School. Mr Naresh Kapoor, observer of the All-India Tennis Association, was also present.

Results — under14: first round

Girls: —Rishika Sunkara (Del) b Tanya Kapoor (Del) 6-3,6-4; Ujala Joshi (Chd) b Gurleen Kaur (del) 6-1,6-1; Inayat Khosla (Chd) b Gopika Kapoor (Del) 6-1, 6-0; Pooja Kamboj (Del) b Hena Kumar (Chd) 7-6(2), 6-3; Navjot Saini (Pb) b Megha Rao (Del) 7-5,6-1; Chandni Thakur (Chd) b Taru Srivastava (UP) 4-6,7-6 (7-4), 6-4; Taskeen Bains w/o Keshwani Renua; Priyanka Tohan (Del) b K.Shweta (Pb) 6-1, 6-4.

Boys—Krishna Karsolia (UP) b Subhash C Rao (Del) 6-1,6-1; Harmeet Singh (Del) b Kunal Anand (del) 6-3,6-2; Kinshuk Sharma (Chd) b Chandril Sood (Del) 6-1,6-1; Pritam Singh (Chd) b Ankit Goswami (Del) 6-3,7-6(7-4); Rahul Belwal (del) b Karan Uday Singh (del) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Kuldeep Chugh (Pb) b Aman Tiwari (UP) 6-2,6-2; NP Singh (Pb) b Harkamal Singh (Chd) 6-4,6-3; Manav Dhawan (Pb) b Lakshit Sood (del) 6-4,6-1; Pankaj Thapar (Del) b Vidhan Vyas (del) 6-1,6-0; Puneet Kumar (UP) b Gopal Singh (UP) 6-2,6-2; Jay Vinod (Chd) b Arjun Chaudhary (Del) 6-2,6-1; Ashwani Prakash (UP) b Uday Brar (Chd) 6-0,6-0;Varun Nagrath (Del) b Sanchit Srivastava (UP) 6-3,6-4; Shiva Sangwan (Chd) b Akshay Kohli (del) 6-3, 6-0; Mandeep Yadav (Chd) b Vikas Chauhan (del) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Gursher Harika (Chd) b Vijayant Malik (Chd) 6-4,0-6,6-1.

Basketball tourney

The Chandigarh State Sub-junior basketball championships for below-13 age group boys and girls began at New Public school, Sector 18, here on Monday. The three-day championships are being organised by the Chandigarh Basketball Association to select the UT team in the above section for taking part in the 29th National Sub-junior basketball championship to be held in Pondicherry from June 17 to 22. In this championship, 10 boys’ and four girl’ teams are taking part.

In the matches played today, New Public School, got the better of MRA Senior Secondatry school, Sector 27 at 22-6. The main scorers for winners were Raman 14 and Evan Sharma 8 and for losers was Sumit Kumar 4.

In other matches of the day, Government Model Senior Secondary school, Sector 33 defeated Vivek High School, Sector 38 at 32-20. The main scorer for winners was Dharminder 22 and for losers was Arjun Misra 10.

In the last match, Government Model School, Sector 26, went down fighting to St Anne’s school, Sector 32 at 8-26. Scorers for winners were Shahid12 and Rohit 6 and for losers were Vikas 4 and Hitesh 4. The championship is being held on league cum-knockout basis. The boys championships have been divided into three groups.

Calendar of activities

The Baseball Association, Chandigarh, released its annual calender of activities for 2002-2003. According to Mr Tilak Raj Kalia, general secretary of the association, the state sub-junior and junior state championships for boys and girls will be organised in August. In October this year, the junior national meet the below-17 age group will be conducted.

Cricket tourney

The District Panchkula Coaching Centre, outplayed the Bhakra Beas Management Board by five wickets to win the final of the C division of the Sixth UT league cricket tournament played here on Sunday.

Brief scores: BBMB XI: 188 runs for eight (Vaneet Khosla 79, Narinder 42, Amit Kumar 22, Sunny Sharma 5 for 24) District.Panchkula XI: 192 runs for five( Naresh Saini 71, Vishal Goyal 46, Harish Garg 30, Inderjit 2 for 31).

Football camp

The Mehar Football Academy, Kurali, will conduct a football camp from June 2 to 15 at Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Kurali. The camp will be organised for below-14 and below-17 years. Mr Parminder Singh (Senior), Mr N.N. Singh and Dr S.S. Chawla will conduct the camp. The registration for the camp will end on June 1.

Seeded players enter 2nd round
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 27
The main round matches of the $ 5000 ITF women’s tennis tournament began here today at Tennis Stadium, Sector 10, with seeded players easily entering the second round.

Till the filing of the report, 12 matches had been played while four were still continuing in the floodlights.

The decision to hold matches late in the evening was taken to due to intense heat. The five-day meet is being organised by the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association.

The Indian challenge is spearheaded by seed one Sonal Phadke, who had little difficulty in beating qualifier Reddhima Parekh. Second seed Radhika got off to a flying start when she overcame the challenge posed by Rati Kumar before disposing her of in straight sets.

Medini Sharma of Mumbai, who recently upset many top-class Indian women players, played a confident game to down qualifier Bharathy Parthasarthy in two sets. Medini is the daughter of former Indian Thomas Cup badminton player Sanjay Sharma.

In other matches of the day, eighth seed Samrita Sekhar played a valiant game to down Arthi Venkataratnam in two sets.

Results — Ist round: Radhika Tulpule b Rati Kumar 6-0,7-5; Archana Venkataratnam b Parul Goswami 6-1,6-2; Medini Sharma b Parthasarthy 6-0,6-4; Priyanka Parekh b N. Chandersekhar 7-6 (7),6-4; Iciri Rai b Nandini Perumal 6-1, 7-6 (2); Murugaboopathy b Alice Joy 6-3,6-0; Deepa Chaakarbarty b Radhika Mandke 4-6, 6-4, 6-0; Geeta Manohar (Ind) b O. Verkhnyatska (UKR) 6-2,6-3; Liza Pareira b Khushleen Bains 6-1,6-0; Sheethal Goutham b Sharanya Pattabi 6-1,6-2; Samrita Sekhar b Arthi Venkataratnam 6-2,7-5; Sonal Phadke b Reddhima Parekh 6-2, 6-4.