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Fortis to create database of blood donors Chandigarh, May 29 In a special interview with The Tribune, Dr (Col) Kailash Mehta, Consultant, Transfusion Medicine, Fortis Heart Institute, said the most important person in the process of collecting safe blood and making it reach the person who requires it, is the donor. “The donor has to be available at a short notice to take care of emergency situations and the most efficient way to ensure this is to have a data base.” Stating that this kind of data bases were available on the net in South India, he pointed out that they were not performing very well since such a base needed to be updated regularly. Dr Mehta also said blood was normally screened for some basic infections before it was found fit for transfusion. “Most government blood banks screen for hepatitis B, VDRL, malaria and HIV, some also screen the blood for hepatitis C but in North India ours is the only blood bank that also screens the blood for antibodies for hepatitis B. This ensures that the blood is more safe for transfusion,” he says. Commercial blood banks in the country which include private blood banks and institutional blood banks like the one in Fortis are not allowed to hold public blood donation camps. “This is unfortunate but then the rules are made and one has to follow those but we will soon be holding public awareness camps regarding blood donation and blood group testing camps. This way we can do our bit for the national cause of using safe blood for transfusion”, he said. |
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AIDS awareness camp organised Chandigarh, May 29 Mr Surinder Verma, Chairman of the Citizens Awareness Group, said that objective of the camp was to create awareness among hair dressers and beauticians and motivate them to bring behavioral change through syndrome care management of STD in the community. He said that this project was sanctioned by the state AIDS Control Society, Chandigarh, in December 2001, for one year. Mrs Surya Madura, Asstt. Director, IEC from Aids Control Society, explained how barbers and beauty parlours were at high risk due to nature of their job and advised them to change blade for each shave. Sex with more than one partners, used needles and sharp edged weapons being used by hair dressers and transfusion of blood from commercial blood donors are some of the reasons for the spread of AIDS. So there was a need for safe sex, safe blood and safe needles. Mrs Sudesh Kalra, Deputy Director, Adult Education, said that illiteracy was to the root cause of all problems. She appealed the barber community to join Adult Education Centers and learn vocational courses. |
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Shruti beaten in ITF meet
Chandigarh, May 29 The other notable upset was witnessed when second seed Radhika Tulpule, a trainee of Pune, could not face the challenge of Archana Venkataratnam and lost in three sets. However, top seed Sonal Phadke and third seed Sheetal Goutham surpassed their respective rivals Samritha Sekhar and Liza Pareira in easily played straight sets. The match between fourth seed Shruti Dhawan and Ankita Bhambri, who has been selected for the Junior World Cup team, lasted nearly 170 minutes. The overnight rain delayed the morning schedule by three hours. Yesterday Shruti done well by beating Medini Sharma of Mumbai. Results: Singles (QF): Sonal Phadke b Samritha Sekhar 6-3, 6-3; Archana Venkataratnam b Radhika Tulpule 3-6, 6-4, 7-5; Sheethal Goutham b Liza Pareira 6-2, 6-4; Ankita Bhambri b Shruti Dhawan 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-4. PQF — Radhika Tulpule b Icri Rai 6-2, 6-3; Archana Venkataratnam b Lata Assudani 6-0, 6-2; Shruti Dhawan b Medini Sharma 5-7, 6-1, 6-1; Samritha Sekhar b Priyanka Parekh 6-3, 6-3; Sonal Phadke b Murugaboopathy 6-4, 7-5; Ankita Bhambri b Deepa Chakarabarty 6-1, 6-1; Sheetal Goutham b Geeta Manohar 6-4, 6-1; Liza Pareira b Preeti Rao 6-2, 6-3. St Stephen’s team win: Boys of St Stephen’s Football Academy, who are on a tour to England these days, have won the tournament which concluded at Leamington. Mr Harold Carver, Principal St Stephen’s School, said the team outplayed Smethnic Sikh Temple Football Club 7-0 in the finals. Earlier, in the semi-finals, St Stephen’s Academy Boys outplayed Khalsa Football Club 5-0. Chavideep Singh was adjudged the man of the match. Now the team will visit Italy for another tournament.Table tennis meet: DAV Public School, Sector 8, Chandigarh, will play host to the first Kishan Lal Arya Open Table Tennis Tournament for below-17 on the school premises from June 5 to 7.According to Mr Narinder Saini, organising secretary, the tournament will be held in boys and girl’s section in kids (below-10), cadet (below-12), sub-junior (below-14) and junior (below-17) sections. Entries close on June 4 with the organising secretary or Ms Anuradha Bansal on the school premises. AITA meet: Simar Singh and Neha Singh both of Chandigarh today entered the last eight of the girls’ under-16 section of the Total Tennis AITA Zonal Junior Ranking Tennis Tournament played at the St Soldier’s Tennis Academy courts, Sector 16, Panchkula, today. Earlier, the matches were delayed due to overnight rain.The other entrants in the last eight include Nikunj Kamal, Inayat Khosla, Garima Vatwani, K Sweta, Sanjana Kapoor and Alipt Sandhu. In the boys’ under-16 section the quarter-finalists are: Gursher Harika, Nitish Raj, Vijit Sehgal, Manjit Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Rohit Chaudhary, Simarveer Singh and Krishna Karsolia. Basketball meet: New Public School, Sector 18, beat St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, (12-2), while MRA Senior Secondary School, Sector 27, beat Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, (20-16) in the quarterfinal tie of the boys’ section of the Chandigarh Sub-Junior Basketball Championships played at New Public School, Sector 18, here on Wednesday.Tomorrow the semifinals will be played in the morning, while final after 5 pm.  |
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Proposal to hike sewerage cess rejected Chandigarh, May 29 The committee also inquired from the officials about the reported low pressure of water and erratic afternoon water supply. The Chief Engineer, Mr V. K. Bharadwaj, was requested to attend the meeting to explain whether supply had been affected or not. The Chief Engineer claimed that the department had been conducting survey of the lines for the past three days and water pressure had not been reduced by the corporation. Mr Bharadwaj said inquiries revealed that 80 per cent complaints were due to obstruction in pipelines. A controversy sparked off at the meeting with the Chairman of the Committee, Mr Kuldeep Singh, approving the minutes of the last meeting without confirming whether concerns of the last meetings had been accommodated in the minutes or not. The members sought a survey along with affidavits from those in Dhanas Gwala Colony who have left cattle rearing for exempting them from commercial water charge. Officials agreed to the suggestion. The committee directed authorities to take action against those releasing sewage into the stream flowing from Leisure Valley to Rose Garden and Sector 36 following complaints from councillors of mosquito menace and smell it was creating. The committee sought a detailed report on the working of tubewells and their status, which officials promised to furnish in the next meeting.
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Arora redresses grievances Panchkula, May 29 Ms Arora directed the officers to take action on priority basis in the complaints of the people and its record be kept secret so that it could be reviewed in the monthly meeting. She said it was the responsibility of the administration to solve the problems of people. She said in order to solve the problem of potable water, a tubewell at the cost of Rs 37 lakh was being installed at Raipur and Chikan villages and another one was being installed at Fatehpur Diwanwala village at the cost of Rs 30 lakh. Complaints about issuing of yellow and pink ration cards were also dealt with. Complaints relating to electricity bills, improvement of potable water, pension, allotment of houses under Indira Awas Yojna, construction of sheds, removal of unauthorised possession and construction of small bridges were also taken up.
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