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HEALTH

Waiting hall opened at GH-16
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 23
The Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob, (retd.), today inaugurated a waiting hall, constructed at a cost of Rs 11 lakh in the Gyanaecology Department of the General Hospital, Sector 16.

Expressing happiness over the completion of the waiting hall, he said attendants of the patients had to sit out in the open in the absence of a proper place. The waiting hall has been provided with facilities, including a cafe, toilets and water coolers.

General Jacob informed that a four-storeyed OPD Block would come up soon after demolition of two bungalows adjacent to the hospital and a plan for a separate cafeteria was also on the anvil. Since more than 1,500 patients are admitted to the gynaecology ward every month, the facility was much needed, he added.

He said out of 33,000 admissions in General Hospital last year,18,000 admissions were in gynae ward alone. Dr C.P. Bansal, Director, Health Services, informed the Administrator that during first the 20 days of January itself, over 900 admissions had been recorded in the gynae ward alone.

A-23 bed new ward, is under construction at an estimated cost of Rs 19. 6 lakh.

Mr Virendra Singh, Adviser to the Administrator, was also present on the occasion.

Those interested in availing a seat in the Nursing School at General Hospital(GH) on paid basis will shortly be able to do so after 20 paid seats are added, as the scheme awaits the approval of the Nursing Council of India.

Sources at GH, said the scheme had already been granted approval by the UT Administration and the inspection team from the Nursing Council of India was expected anytime. “The interested candidates will have to pay roughly Rs 1 lakh for the three year diploma, which is done after plus two level,” he added. This will bring in additional money to the school, which at present has only 20 seats, which are open to candidates only from UT. The paid seats shall be open for candidates from all over the country, he added.

In fact, work on the construction of the Nursing College at an estimated cost of Rs 24 lakh is already underway and is expected to be completed by June.

SPORTS

Green Field School enter final
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, January 23
In the Third SAS Nagar Inter-School Cricket Tournament for Sardar MS Majithia Memorial Trophy, Green Field Public School will take on Paragon Senior Secondary School, SAS Nagar, in the finals on January 25. The meet is being organised by the Mohali Cricket Association. In the semi-finals played today, Green Field Public School beat Gem Public School by 44 runs.

Brief scores: Green Field Public School:180 runs for nine in 30 overs (Arjeet 34, Kulbir 26, Sarwan 18, Ravneet 2 for 26, Harmanveer 2 for 28). Gem Public School: 136 runs all out in 29 overs (Lovnish 27, Harmanveer 22, Satinderpal 20, Gurvinder 4 for 29, Ram Kumar 2 for 34).

Yoga award

Yogshiromani Dr Gopalji, general secretary, Yoga Confederation of India, has been selected for the ‘Golden Lotus Yoga Award’ by the International Yoga Federation and European Yoga Alliance. The award will be given in the World Yoga Therapy Convention to be held in Portugal from July 18 to 20.

ADMINISTRATION

SSP rank for SP
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 23
The Chandigarh Administration has designated the Superintendent of Police (Traffic and Security) as Senior Superintendent of Police (Traffic and Security) after giving the 1991-batch IPS officer a local rank.

According to the information available, the Home Secretary, Chandigarh Administration, passed the order seeing the seniority of the Haryana cadre official, Mr Balbir Singh. The Senior Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Mr Verinder Singh, is a 1991- batch UT-cadre official and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr Gaurav Yadav, is a 1992-batch Punjab-cadre official.

PUDA suspends JE
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, January 23
Sukhpal Singh, a Junior Engineer, working in the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) office here was suspended on orders from the PUDA Headquarters today.

The JE, according to sources, has been suspended on charges of negligence of duty. Sources state that the JE is being held responsible for not having controlled unauthorised stalls from coming up in Phase I here. While some of these stalls have been recently removed by PUDA authorities a large number of these stalls are still existing in Mohali village that falls in this phase.

Sources also point out that a question regarding the existence of these stalls and the nuisance these caused to the residents living in the area also came up for discussion in the Vidhan Sabha following which the matter was taken up by the Vidhan Sabha Petition Committee. These stalls were removed on the recommendation of this committee and according to sources, the committee had recommended the suspension of the JE. The PUDA has five JEs in charge of various sectors and phases. Sukhpal Singh was handling work in Phases I ,VI, IIIA and II.