HEALTH

Waiting endlessly for X-ray registration
Pratibha Chauhan
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 20
Patients wanting to get an X-ray done at PGI’s Oral Health Sciences Department have to face lot of inconvenience. While only half an hour has been kept for getting the registrations done, patients are generally asked to come the next morning even if they make it on time as the registration staff have their tea break during this brief period.

Patients coming for treatment for their dental problems to the department have to inconvenience as there is only half an hour’s time for getting the X-ray registration done and even during this brief period the staff, at times, is not present on duty, as they are busy sipping tea.

“First the time for getting the registration done for an X-ray is just half an hour (11 to 11.30 a.m) and on top of that the person in charge has very conveniently kept his tea break from 11.15 to 11.45 a.m, virtually making a mockery of the whole system,” remarked an agitated patient from Panchkula, who had to go back home without getting the X-ray done, yesterday.

Interestingly, the timing of the tea break from 11.15 to 11.45 a.m has been written on the notice board, where patients get the entry in the register, before they can get the X-ray done. The patients said it was amazing how doctors in the Dental Department had not taken note of such irresponsible behaviour by the staff on duty.

There were almost 10 patients, who could not get their X-ray done yesterday.

“This has been a persistent problem as there are times when the staff at the registration counter proceeds on a tea break much earlier, leaving the patients in the lurch,” admitted an employee of the department.

The Department of Oral Health Sciences at the PGI might boast of offering the best services by a team of dedicated doctors and staff but such instances of callousness, where patients are put to inconvenience should be taken care of, rued the patients.

The patients said they would have to waste another day as they have to come back for getting the X-ray done as doctors at the PGI preferred that the X-ray was done from their machinery.

The Head of the Oral Health Sciences Department, Prof H.S. Chawla, did not respond to the written queries given through the public relations committee.

When contacted on telephone, he refused to discuss the issue. When asked if there was staff or equipment shortage, he again refused to comment.

SPORTS

School aims at promoting sports culture
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh, January 20
Ananda International School, at Togan village is just 2 km from Sector 39, which has technical collaboration with Shri Ram Educare, Delhi, will experiment with innovative means to emphasis developing sport culture among children. “The school, which is being set up in an area of 11 acres, will be devoting nearly seven acres for developing sports infrastructure,” said Mr JS Sukhija, promoter of the school. Mr Sukhija, himself a keen golfer, said in the coming session they would be starting classes from nursery to VI and in a phased manner the school would be upgraded to Class XII.

Ms Komal Anand, Principal of the school, said they would be following the modified sports concept as being practiced by the Australian Sport Commission. She said, according to this system, a child up to the age of eight need not play with normal sports equipment and children were given top quality cricket balls and bat. Similarly the area of the playing field would also be reduced so that tiny tots did not have to exert much. Till the age of eight a child would be encouraged to play all games. However, after this age, considering the interest and aptitude of a child in a particular sport the child would be coached in some sports, said Ms Anand, who had been working with this system for the past two years.

She said unlike few other schools they had the benefit of more area available for creating the sports infrastructure.

Ms Anand said they would be starting a cricket academy to be run under the patronage of Dronacharya Desh Prem Azad and former test star Chetan Sharma. Two tennis courts, a basketball court, grounds for football and hockey, a track for athletics and an indoor hall for badminton and other indoor games would be ready in another two or three months, she added.

The Principal said the school was just 3 km from Sector’s 38 and 39 and was in proximity to various Mohali areas. The school buses would be available for all sectors of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali and would pick up children for sports activities. Ms Anand said after the school hours the sports facilities would also be made available to students of other schools.

Gian Jyoti bags overall trophy
Our Correspondent

Mohali, January 20
Gian Jyoti Public School bagged the overall trophy at the Fourth Inter-School District Athletic Meet held at Phase VIII, here today.

The school bagged 28 prizes in various categories. Avrinder and Jaspreet stood first and second, respectively, in the 100 m race for boys in the under-10 category, while Mandeep Kaur and Surbi bagged positions in the girl’s category.

In the under-16 boys, Gurjeevan stood first in the 100 m race while Amitpal bagged the second position. Supreet stood first in the under-16 (boys) 800 m and 1500 m races.

The under —18 100 m boys' category was won by Jaspreet, while the 200 m was won by Kamalpreet. The 400 m race for under —18 (boys) was won by Vinod.

In shot put under —16 girls, Simran Kaur bagged first prize, while Yadvinder won the boys' category. Under — 18 girls was won by Gurpreet and Jaspreet won the boys' categories. Long jump under —18 was won by Kalpana in the girls’ category, while Jaspreet bagged the first prize in the boys category. 

City boys secure third place in baseball meet
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, January 20
Chandigarh boys secured third place while its eves secured fourth place in the 15th Junior National Baseball Championship, which concluded at the Panjab University grounds here today. Madhya Pradesh boys and Delhi girls emerged new champions. In both finals, the losers were Goa. Madhya Pradesh boys scored 3-2 victory over Goa at ground number 1. In the girls final, Delhi defeated Goa 3-2.

Captain Parvez scored the opening run for Madhya Pradesh in the first innings. Matching each other in all departments of the game, the second innings ended blank. Madhya Pradesh’s Balendu, Pankaj and Robin were striked out. Goa’s Sushant and Kurejesh were dismissed.The teams shared the honours in the third innings by sharing two runs. The fourth innings ended unproductive. In the fifth innings, Kurjesh scored one run to make it 3-1 for Madhya Pradesh. Goa put up fight till the end and were able to score through Rahul to narrow the margin. In the fourth innings, Madhya Pradesh replaced Pitcher Ratnesh with Balendu.

Earlier, hosts and runners-up Chandigarh just managed to pip Karnataka 6-5 margin for the third place. Atul (2), Ashish (2), Neeraj (1) and Ravinder (1) were the Chandigarh’s scorers. Moiz (1), Ashish (1), Mikhil (1), Roshan (1) and Pradeep (1) helped Karnataka put up a brave fight before going down. Delhi and Goa girls were tied two-all till the third innings. In the fourth innings, Jyoti Kataria snatched the winning run for Delhi in the fourth innings. Pooja, Renu and Jyoti Kataria scored one run each for Delhi. Vidhya and Keran got one run each in first innings for Goa. Madhya Pradesh elbowed out Chandigarh by 8-7 to finish third in the girls' match. Pallavi (1), Shilpa (1), Mumtaz (2), Preeti (1), Priyanka (1) and Varsha (1) were the scorers for the winners. Chandigarh’s run scores were Sarita (1), Leela (1), Heena (1), Lata (1), Sangita (1) and Anju (1). Mr Jagdish Mittal, DIG, Punjab Armed Police, was the chief guest and gave away prizes.

PU sports persons meet VC

A delegation of nearly 50 students of the Department of Physical Education, led by PUSU president, Rajwinder Singh Lucky, met the Vice-Chancellor regarding problems being faced by sportspersons. The memorandum submitted by them demanded repair and rolling of the main sports grounds and the construction of changing rooms for sportswomen.

Cricket meet

DAV Amritsar outplayed Green Field by eight wickets in the first semi-final of the PCA Parle Inter-district under-17 Cricket Tournament played at MCA grounds, Mohali, on Tuesday.

Brief scores: Green Field: 115 runs all out in 28 overs (Ram Kumar 27, Arjit 21, Manbeer 13, Vipan Kumar 3 for 10, and Gurjeet 3 for 15). DAV: 119 runs for two (Sharansh Thakur 50 n.o., and Vipan Kumar 50 n.o).

ADMINISTRATION

Advisory board constituted

Panchkula, January 20
The Haryana Government has constituted an advisory board to assist the dowry prevention officers for the efficient performance of their duties.

The district administration has nominated Mr R.K. Taneja, Ms Sunita Dhaliwal, Mr Randhir Singh Badhran, Ms Indu Bharat and Ms Sudesh as members, who will assist the City Magistrate.

Ms Sharda Gupta, Mr Kiljit Singh, Ms Renuka Walia, Mr Pawan Mittal and Dr Midgi Siwach will assist the SDM, Panchkula. Similarly, Ms Jaswant Kaur, Mr Abhey Ram Sharma, Ms Kuldeep Kaur, Ms Sudesh and Ms Bhupinder Kaur will assist the SDM, Kalka. TNS

MC to announce committees soon
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 20
The local Municipal Corporation will announce the committees handling its key affairs in various fields later this week. This was stated by Mrs Kamlesh, the Mayor, here today.

The corporation has 11 committees handling different affairs. These include water supply and sewage disposal, environment and city beautification, slum development and apni mandis. There are also committees which handle the issues pertaining to fire services and art and culture in the city, besides others.

The Mayor said the Municipal Corporation would meet later this month. Mrs Kamlesh said she would ensure that the recommendations of the committees were implemented.