HEALTH

‘Heart and Chest Care Week’ at Max Hospital
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 2
Responding to the rapidly growing cases of heart and chest ailments, Max Hospital, Noida, is observing a ‘Heart and Chest Care Week’. The event will be on till December 7, 2003. All consultations will be provided free of cost by specialists during this period. Also, procedures such as ECG, TMT, stress echocardiogram, spirometry, chest X-ray, lipid profile and blood tests shall be at a 20 per cent special discount.

Dr Sanjiv Malik, Hub Manager, Max Hospital, Noida, said, “Over five per cent of the population in India suffers from chronic respiratory diseases like allergy, asthma, chronic bronchitis emphysema and tuberculosis or their sequel. They often run a protracted course punctuated by an acute exacerbation and remissions cause disabling morbidies, often requiring hospitalization, loss of schooling and workdays. However, it is important to know that early diagnosis and proper clinical management is the key to keeping these patients healthy. There are also effective measures to prevent the occurrence of these diseases, at any rate mitigate suffering from them.”

Allergy and asthma are the most common respiratory diseases affecting all ages, including children and the elderly. This manifests as rhinitis (nose block and sneezing) sinusitis, cough, expectoration, breathlessness and wheezing. These often starts as seasonal problems and in many cases becomes perennial, which is caused by inhalation of pollen, fungi, food grain or house dust containing mites viral infections etc. A precise diagnosis can be made by clinical examination, breathing and allergy test. Treatment and prevention are effective by aerosol inhalation. Home management is possible by properly educating the patient and parents (in case of children). The patient can thus lead a normal life.

Chronic bronchitis emphysema also clinically manifests like asthma with cough, expectoration, breathlessness, wheezing and respiratory failure (deficiency of oxygen and increase in carbon dioxide). This is often related to smoking or inhalation of polluted air. The disease can be effectively prevented and the patient can live a normal life. Tuberculosis is one of the most important diseases in India, being highly infectious in nature. Common symptoms are cough, expectoration, fever, pain in chest etc.

In India, in spite of very effective treatment, one patient is dying every minute-largely due to the lack of proper treatment. Diagnosed early the disease is completely curable in six months. The simple diagnostic methods are sputum examination and chest X–ray, doctors assert.

SPORTS

Goodshepherd advance into quarters
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 2
Goodshepherd High School, Shillong (Meghalaya) scored a narrow 1-0 victory against Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa School, Jabalpur and entered the quarter-final of the Subroto Mukherjee Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium here today.

In a keenly-contested match, Hopingstone Suting slotted in the match-winner in the 52nd minute.

MM Rabanni High School, Nagpur (Maharashtra) hit back to defeat Air Force School, Subroto Park (New Delhi) 2-1. All the goals came in the second half.

Air Force took the lead in the 54th minute through Michel. Ilyas Ali equalised for Rabanni three minutes later and a self goal by Rohit Singh in the 59th minute sealed the fate of the local school.

Kabiraj Tilla High School, Badharghat (Tripura) drubbed Goda Varma Raja Sports School, Thiruvanathapuram (Kerala) 4-0. Binod Kishore Jamatia was the hero of Tripura’s victory, scoring three goals—first, second and fourth—while the third goal was netted by Neia Darlong. Tripura’s fate of qualifying for the quarter-final will be clear only after the match between Mamta Modern and G V Raja.

Wednesday’s fixtures: Vivekanand Vidyapeeth (Chattisgarh) vs Town School, Orissa (2 pm); Mamta Modern vs G V Raja Sports School (3.30 pm)— Ambedkar Stadium.

Gush Club beat Ajmal Khan
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 2
Gush Club defeated Ajmal Khan Coaching Centre by 106 runs in a DDCA A-I Division match at the RSC ground.

Scores: Gush Club: 243 for 5 in 40 overs (Gursaran Singh 60 n o, Manav Sharma 38 n o, Sebi Kukreja 37, Shivam Gupta 35, Sushil Rana 2 for 44). Ajmal Khan CC: 137 all out in 37.2 overs (Gaurav Sharma 33, Manav Sharma 3 for 11, Naman Khanna 2 for 34, Ajay Chouhan 2 for 36).

Lion Kanishka defeated Friends Club by 188 runs in an A-II Division match at the YSC ground.

Scores: Lion Kanishka: 263 for 3 in 40 overs (Pitamber Dutt 73, Amanjeet Singh 56, Ajay Sharma 50, Aditya Saini 47 n o).

Friends Club: 80 (Madan Singh 22, Sant Ram 4 for 19, Vijay Pandit 2 for 9, Honey Mehra 2 for 12).

Aditya stars for Dena Bank

An all-round performance by Aditya Jain (63 and 3 for 20) and deadly bowling by Vikas Vij (3 for 14) helped Dena Bank beat Lal Bahadur Shastri Club by 19 runs and entered the semi-final of the third C L Gupta Memorial Cricket Tournament for the Prem Lata Trophy at the Mohan Meaki ground.

Scores: Dena Bank: 221 for 3 in 40 overs (Aditya Jain 63 n o, Preet Pal Singh 41, Sanjay Sharma 45, Vishal Sharma 36, Saurabh Shukla 3 for 46).

Lal Bahadur Shastri Club: 202 (Manu Kumar 67, Akash Talwar 41, Aditya Jain 3 for 20, Vikas Vij 3 for 41, Kartar Nath 3 for 42).

Bangladesh teams have a field day

New Delhi, December 2
Bangladesh School teams had a field day when four of their teams ended on the winning side in the DPS World Cup Invitational Cricket for Schools on Tuesday.

In other matches, Barguna Zilla School of Bangladesh defeated St. Andrew School of Hyderabad by six wickets, Aricha Belayet of Bangladesh defeated DPS, Nighahi by five wickets and Razzak High School beat St. Thomas Church School, Howrah by nine wickets.

EXL beat Star TV

EXL beat Star TV by 38 runs in the Star Alliance Six-a-Side Cricket Tournament at the Bhagat Singh College ground. In other matches, New Zealand beat KPMG by 13 runs, E-Fund b HT by 17 runs, GE Capital b NIIT by five wickets, TER b Delhi Metro by five wickets, KPMG b DELFE by nine runs, Star TV b Times of India by six wickets, LG b Nucleps by 28 runs and Bilt b Alkatel by five wickets. OSR

Aravali ride to big victory
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 2
Aravali Polo trounced ASC by eight goals to three and a half and Teachers beat 61 Cavalry by six goals to two and a half in the Habanos Cavalry Gold Cup (10 goals) Polo Tournament at the Army Equestrian Centre Polo ground on Tuesday.

In the two matches played at the Jaipur Polo ground, Sahgal stud defeated Royal Kashmir by seven goals to four and ABN-Amro Bank beat Horse and Wagon by five goals to one and a half.

In the first match, ASC started with a 2 1/2-goal advantage on handicap and got their lone goal through Maj. N S Khera. Angad Kalaan and David Bernai scored three goals each for Aravali while Karan Thapar and Akshai Malik scored one goal each.

In the second match, 61 Cavalry started with a half-goal advantage and added two goals through Maj Tarun Sirohi. Lokendra Singh and Navin Khanna scored two goals each and Bhupinder Singh and Preetendra Singh scored a goal each for Teachers.

Dhruvapal Godara shone for Sahgal Stud with a five-goal blitz while Oliver Taylor scored two goals. Juan Ambroggio (3) and Jai Shergill scored the goals for Royal Kashmir.

Horse and Wagon, who got a half-goal handicap, could score only one goal while ABN-Amro slotted home five goals through Manupal Godara (2), Uday Kalaan (2) and Varan Sharma.

Wednesday’s fixtures: Aravali vs Royal Kashmir (2 pm); Teachers vs ABN-Amro (3 pm)—Jaipur ground.

Gyan Bharati bag United Cup
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, December 2
A dashing batting display by Naman Khanna (48, 30b, 4x3, 6x3) and deadly bowling of 6 for 16 by Bhanu Sahani helped Gyan Bharati South Delhi Cricket Academy beat Sonnet Club by 36 runs and annex the United Cricket Cup for Under-15 at the Picnic Hut ground.

Tarun Dogra, Bhanu Sahani, Amitize Singh and Naman Khanna, all from Gyan Bharati, were declared the best batsman, best bowler, best fielder and man of the match respectively. Yogesh Nagar of Sonnet was given the player of the tournament award.

Scores: Gyan Bharati: 228 for 7 in 35 overs (Varun Sudan 57, 4x10, Tarun Dogra 35, 4x3, 6x1; Prateek Pawar 43, 4x6; Naman Khanna 48, 4x3, 6x3; Karan Khanna 3 for 51).

Sonnet Club: 192 all out in 34 overs (Rushil Bhaskar 53, 4x7; Shobhit Kaushik 42, 4x2; Karan Khanna 32, 4x5, Bhanu Sahani 6 for 16, Abhilash Mallick 2 for 45).

Ganga School lift athletics title

New Delhi, December 2
Ganga School, which won six gold medals, annexed the Zonal Athletics Championship held at the Don Bosco School, Paschim Vihar. Those who claimed the gold medals were Anup, Push, Manjeet, Kapil, Vikas and Gaurav. School principal Mrs H Srow and manager Sushil Kumar Gupta felicitated the athletes who brought laurels to the school. OSR