The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories

HEALTH

Hospice completes a year
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, January 19
A function was organised on the completion of one year of Chandigarh Hospice being run by the Indian National Red Cross Society in association with the Department of Radiotherapy, PGI, at Sector 43 today.

The adviser to the administrator, Mr Lalit Sharma, in his inaugural speech, lauded the efforts of the UT Red Cross and Hospice staff for running the Hospice and launch of a new Qualis ambulance van of the UT Red Cross for providing prompt services to the residents. He urged people to come forward for the support of terminally ill cancer patients and those needy.

The Finance Secretary, Mr Karan A. Singh, appreciated the role being played by the hospice in improving quality life and adding life to the terminally ill cancer patients and assured full support and co-operation the Health Department.

Workshop to train drug regulators
Tribune News Service

Mohali, January 19
The first training programme under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare World Bank-assisted capacity building project was inaugurated today at NIPER here by Dr S.R. Gupta, Joint Drugs Controller (India). In his inaugural address, he highlighted the role of drug regulatory staff in improving the quality of drugs in circulation in the country.

He highlighted the elements of capacity-building project and indicated that the government had taken key steps to strengthen the testing laboratories, including the establishment of new laboratories in three states, expansion of the existing labs, and strengthening of the labs with equipment, materials and supplies. He emphasised that as required by the World Bank, the time for the testing of drug samples in public laboratories will be brought down significantly.

Dr C.L. Kaul, Director of NIPER, read the welcome address in which he said the workshop would train drug regulators at par with their international counterparts and keep pharmacy professionals abreast with the changing technologies, regulatory requirements, quality assurance and good manufacturing practices.

Among others who spoke included Mr M. Mitra, Dr D. Roy from CDSCO, North Zone, Dr Saranjit Singh from NIPER and Dr Shankar Gupta from CDSCO, West Bengal.

45 examined at camp for psychiatric problems
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, January 19
As many as 45 patients were examined at a one-day camp for psychiatric problems held at the Civil Hospital in Manimajra today.

Patients with anxiety disorder, including adjustment problems, obsessive, compulsive disorder and hypochondriacal disorder were attended upon. Medicines and counselling was given to the patients suffering from depression, substance abuse and schizophrenia. Some patients were referred to the half Way Home in Sector 47 for social and occupational rehabilitation. The patients were told that the district mental health programme ran a daily OPD except on Thursday in the hospital. The camp was organised by the Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32.

Reiki camp concludes
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 19
A two-day reiki healing camp organised by the Paradise Reiki Healing Organisation, a voluntary organisation, free of cost concluded here today.

The camps were conducted by Dr Sonika reiki grandmaster.

According to Dr Sonika, reiki benefits those suffering from various diseases, including high blood pressure, heart attack, insomnia, cancer and arthritis and no medicines are required.

Touch healing and mass healing-cum-meditation are part of the programme. An audio-visual presentation was also made.

The organisation holds reiki camps free of cost every month.

SPORTS

St John’s bags cricket title
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, January 19
St John’s High School, Sector 26, bagged the ESPN Cricket Tournament played on the premises of St John’s School here today.

In today’s match, St John’s beat St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, by 24 runs. Former cricketer Vivek Razdan honoured the winning team.

Earlier, St John’s won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 139 runs in 25 overs. Arjun scored 30 runs followed by Anaad Gill 27 runs and Jasdeep 23 runs. Ankit claimed four wickets for 17 runs. Kanisth and Geetanshu both bagged two wickets each for 16 and 21 runs, respectively.

In reply, St Stephen’s School were bowled out for 115 runs. Sourav made 42 runs, followed by Kanisth 25 runs and Jaskaran 21 runs. Kritarth, Abhay, Gaurav Pal and Jasdeep claimed two wickets each.

Twelve schools took part in the tournament. These included Sanjay Public school, Sector 44, St Xavier’s, Sector 44, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, DAV, Panchkula, St John’s School, Sector 26, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, SD Public, Sector 32, Shishu Niketan Model, Sector 22, St Stephen’s, Sector 45, Satluj Public school, Sector 4, Panchkula, Government Model School, Sector 38, and DAV School, Sector 8.

City team enter semis in baseball

Chandigarh entered the semi-finals of the girls’ section of the 15th Junior National Baseball Championship being played at the Panjab University Campus on Monday.

Chandigarh will now face Goa in the semi-final to be played on Tuesday morning. Chandigarh outplayed Orissa in a one-sided match. The match was terminated in the third innings due to difference of more than 10 points (11-0). Amit (2), Ravinder (2), Atul, Ashish, Brij Bhushan, Pankaj and Neeraj (1 each) scored for the host.

Madhya Pradesh were the third team to enter semi-final round after terminating the challenge of Punjab by a clear 10-4 margin. Though the match lasted five innings, Madhya Pradesh outclassed Punjab in all departments of the game.

Parvej (2), Rahul, Ratnesh, Neeraj, Hemant, Balindu, Pankaj, Robin and Amit (1 each) scored for Madhya Pradesh. Punjab reduced the margin through Ashushtosh, Jatinder, Veereklov and Akash (1 each).

The fourth quarter-final match between Karnataka and Kerala will be played on Tuesday morning and their winners will meet Madhya Pradesh.

None of three quarter-final matches could last five innings. Chandigarh, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh entered semi-finals.

Delhi beat Karnataka by 11-0 and Madhya Pradesh beat Himachal Pradesh by 11-1. Chandigarh girls prevailed over Punjab in a high-scoring match by 18-8. The match ended in the fourth innings. Heema top scored for Chandigarh with four runs. Manju (3), Sarita (2), Leela (2), Pooja (2), Rani (1), Sangita (1) and Ruby (1) were the other scorers for the winners. Kiran (2), Ritu (2), Neha (20, Harpreet (1) and Ranbir (1) were the star performers for Punjab.

Goa entered the semi-final at the expense of Kerala whom they beat by 7-0. The semi-final line-up in the girls’ section is MP vs Delhi and Chandigarh vs Goa.

Parle meet

Green Field outplayed Sanatan Vidya Mandir, Ludhiana, by 53 runs in the PCA Parle Cup Under-17 Cricket Tournament played at MCA grounds, Mohali, on Monday

Brief scores: Green Field: 228 runs for six in 35 overs (Manbeer 25, Harvinder 28, Rahul 52 n.o., Satyajeet 31 n.o.,Yogesh 2 for 40).

Sanatan Vidya Mandir: 175 runs all out in 34 overs (Jony 52, Sushant Kohli 41, Sharvan 3 for 36, Satyajeet 2 for 12, Manbeer 2 for 33).

A school playground open to outsiders
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh, January 19
Rai School, Sector 48, a branch of Rai School, Delhi, has ambitious plans to provide sports facilities to its students as well as other children. The school has earmarked more than half of its 5-acre area for sports activities.

Stating this, Ms Punam Dogra, the Principal of the school, said their aim was to serve the local residents. She said Sector 48 residents did not have access to any sports facility.

She said they proposed to allot space for roller-skating, volleyball, cricket, football and horse-riding. A separate play area for the primary section with safe playground equipment was meant to allow free play to the young ones, she added.

The Principal said besides the regular physical education classes, coaching will be provided in activity period also. She said each child was free to choose his or her own sport.

Ms Dogra said to begin with they had encouraged the tiny tots to go in for skating. For this, they have also taken the services of experts in the field. The school authorities also plan to have a multi-purpose concrete court for skating, basketball, handball and other sports.

Ms Dogra said karate classes were also planned. She said some representatives from nearby housing societies had welcomed the decision of the school to allow the use of school playground to the children other than school students. She said the students excelling in sports would also be motivated with attractive cash incentives. She said they planned to open a sports-cum-cultural club.

Teaching martial art at the age of 14
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, January 19
Nitin Sharma, a Class IX student of St Xavier Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, has become an assistant instructor in martial art at the age of 14. Trained by Mr Sudhir Kumar and Mr Suresh Kumar Dogra , chief instructor and instructor, respectively, he has also been selected as the best candidate among black belt competitors.

Nitin from Chandigarh and Ravish from Mohali were sent by the Choi Kwang Do Martial Art, Chandigarh, for a black belt competition in Mumbai. The competition was witnessed by Master Jungnu Nanda, V degree black belt, the president and chief instructor of the All-India Choi Kwang Do Martial Art, USA.

Choi Kwang Do is a modern art based on principles derived from bio-mechanics, kinesiology, chiropractice and psycho-neutrology.