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HEALTH

Anaesthesiologists want to be safe than sorry
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 17
In what is described as a formative step towards creating wider awareness about safety and regulatory issues concerning anaesthesiology in India, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals organised a symposium on quality and safety issues in anaesthesiology. The symposium discussed monitoring standards and guidelines that can be implemented to safeguard the safety of patients and anesthesiologists across all hospitals in the country to coincide with World Anaesthesia Day.

The conference was jointly organised by the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (Delhi Chapter) and the Department of Anaesthesia, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. It was attended by anaesthesiologists from leading hospitals in the city, including AIIMS, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Lady Harding Medical College and Maulana Azad Medical College, among others.

The symposium highlighted the lack of information that the general public had towards anaesthesia, which is administered to patients before most invasive surgeries. People are not aware about the basic infrastructure that should be available at the hospitals that they choose for treatment. This is despite the high rate of anaesthesia related deaths in the country. In the West, pure anaesthesia mortality is hardly one in every 200,000 patients while in India the estimated rate is high.

The unanimous consensus at the symposium was that administration of proper anaesthesia was among the most vital factors in the success of a surgery but it was often not given its due importance. What is of concern is that even with highly trained anesthesiologists, there is lack of proper infrastructure to ensure that the right dosage of anaesthesia is administered and all safety recommendations are followed. At present, there is no binding regulatory framework in India and the safety guidelines are arbitrarily followed in healthcare centres, which many a times increase the risk factors for patients undergoing surgery.

It was also felt that there was the need to review the prevailing guidelines for anaesthesiology to address issues such as safety to anaethesiologists and utilising the advances made in the field in the recent past.

The panel in the symposium discussed measures that could be implemented to ensure maintenance of quality standards and ensuring patient safety. Primary among these was the need to have clear guidelines for minimum monitoring in all hospitals. There was also an urgent need to specify the basic infrastructural set-up that every hospital should have. The Indian Society of Anaesthesiology had earlier given certain recommendations to the Delhi Government in 1992 but these had still not been implemented in the right spirit.

SPORTS

Ranchi girls sail into Nehru Hockey final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 17
Government Girls High School, Ranchi defeated Karamat Hussain Muslim Girls College, Lucknow 2-1 to sail into the final of the 10th Nehru Junior Girls Hockey Tournament at the Shivaji Stadium on Friday. The teams were locked 1-1 at half time.

The Ranchi girls will clash against SGNP School, Shahabad, in the final on Saturday at 3 pm.

Birsa Munda Vidyapitha, Rourkela beat NCC, Bangalore 2-1 to remain in contention for the 3rd-4th position. Anora Tirkey scored both the goals for the Ranchi School while Shradha Verma pulled off the consolation goal for Lucknow.

In the other match, NCC took the lead through K Usha but Birsa Munda fought back to score two goals through Mariam Minz and Sarita Hanuman.

Meanwhile, the 32nd Nehru Junior Boys (Under-17) Hockey Tournament will begin on Saturday. Twenty-seven teams, including defending champions St. Soldier Divine School, Jalandhar and NCC, Bangalore, are in the fray for the top prize of Rs 96,000. The runners-up will pocket Rs 64,000.

The tournament carries a total prize money of Rs 2,43,000.

Sunil, Vipin advance in TT
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 17
Sunil Uppal won two matches in a row when he defeated Anil Malhotra 21-13, 21-18 and Rajesh Manchanda 21-17, 21-13 to enter the pre-quarter-final of the DDCA Table Tennis Tournament at the DDCA premises. Vipin Suri beat N K Lakhotia 21-13, 21-15, also to make the pre-quarters.

In other matches, P. K. Soni beat Virender Anand 19-21, 21-19, 21-8; Lakhotia b Pradeep Kumar 21-10, 21-15; Ashok Khurana b Ashwani 21-17, 21-18; Rajesh Walia b Subhash Kamra 21-13, 21-16; Vipin Suri b Lakhotia 21-13, 21-15; Sunil Uppal b Rajesh Manchanda 21-17, 21-13.

Vidyawati Volleyball

The 14th Vidyawati Alagh Memorial Volleyball Tournament will be held from November 4 for 7. Entries close on October 24 with organising secretary M P Singh at phones 25500489/25508486.

Bargodia beat Goenka

N. K. Bargodia defeated G. D. Goenka School 2-0 in the Nivia Schools Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Friday. Navneet and Varun were the scorers. Ganga School drew with President’s Estate 1-1. Tapan scored for Ganga while Arvind equalised for President’s Estate.

Mixed luck for Ganga School in CBSE Hockey
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 17
Hosts Ganga International School faced mixed luck as they won in the boys under-19 section and lost in the junior section in the CBSE North Zone Hockey Tournament at the Ganga School ground.

Ganga beat Patice DAV School, Jalandhar 2-0 in the junior section but the Jalandhar school exacted revenge, when they defeated Ganga 2-1.

Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hissar got walk over from SGTB School, Bhardwala in the under-19 girls section while Shah Satnam Ji School, Sirsa defeated S S Mota Singh, Paschim Vihar 3-2 in the boys under-19 section.

In other matches, Vidya Devi Jindal School beat GRGN School, Sirsa 2-1 in the under-14 girls section, Maharaja Agrasen Girls School, Sirsa beat Shah Satnamji Girls School 2-1 and SGG Ji Khalsa Academy, Mehta Chowk defeated Sacred Heart, Ludhiana 6-0.

Gaurav Chabra powers Salwan School into final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 17
Gaurav Chabra played a brilliant all-round role (83 and 3 for 26) as Salwan Boys defeated Salwan Public School by 84 runs to enter the final of the fourth Parle Cup Inter-School Under-17 Cricket Tournament at the Bharat Nagar ground. Gaurav Chabra was declared the man of the match.

At the Government School ground, Vikaspuri, Hemant Singh and Harish Kumar played stellar roles to guide

Ravindra Public School past Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Vikaspuri, with a two-run victory.

Scores: Salwan Boys: 229 for 7 in 40 overs (Gaurav Chabra 83, Rajeev Sharma 40, Rohit Saini 35, Naman Gupta 2 for 34).

Salwan Public: 145 for 9 in 40 overs (Amit Bhola 29, Gaurav Chabra 3 for 26).

Ravindra School: 174 for 9 in 40 overs (Jatin Paul 41, Hemant Singh 34, Ranjeet Singh 3 for 25).

Govt School: 172 all out in 39.4 overs (Ranjeet Singh 41, Harish Kumar 3 for 28, Hemant Singh 3 for 24). The final will be a two-day affair, to be played on October 19 and 20, at the Bharat Nagar ground.

Gyan Bharati enter final

Fiery bowling displays by Sanchit Kumar (5 for 3) and Chinmoy Kumar (3 for 12) helped Gyan Bharati School, Saket beat New Green Field School by ten wickets and entered the final of the Zone-25 Inter-School Cricket Tournament at the Gyan Bharati School ground.

Scores: New Green Field: 38 in 14.3 overs (Sanchit Kumar 5 for 3, Chinmoy Mathur 3 for 12).

Gyan Bharati: 42 for no loss in 7.3 overs (Dishank Dhawan 22 n.o., Ankul Chandok 16 n.o).

DPS, Columba’s to clash in final

Delhi Public School (DPS), R K Puram defeated Shri Ram School by 13 runs and St. Columba’s School defeated Frank Anthony School by 60 runs to enter the final of the second Shri Ram School Cricket Challenge Tournament.

Scores: DPS: 193 all out in 35 overs (Hemant Chugh 61, Simran Sodhi 29, Anuj Prasad 3 for 57, Nikhil Bhagat 2 for 35).

Shri Ram School: 180 for 9 in 35 overs (Aman Kapur 47, Vaibhav Garg 74, Rahul Wahi 2 for 19, Karan Sharma 3 for 46, Vaibhav Garg 2 for 27).

St. Columba’s School: 191 for 6 in 35 overs (Shivam Gupta 83 n.o., Victor Wilkins 27, Dipender 5 for 17, Udit 2 for 27).

Frank Anthony: 131 all out in 33.5 overs (Rohan 33, Dheeraj 32, Vivek 2 for 37).