HEALTH

‘Guidelines needed for post-treatment trauma’
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3
Timely treatment, after an accident leading to multiple fractures in the upper limbs of a patient in his mid-20s, can take care of his injuries. But the broken limbs, though now joined, can lead to stiff joints and cannot be treated.

After the treatment the movement of limbs get restricted. However, in the absence of any standard guidelines for coping with the post-treatment trauma or counselling, such patients devise their own mechanism like taking recourse in friends, guide-books and even faith healers.

The study conducted at the PGI has emphasised on the need to formulate general guidelines to cope successfully with problems that arise after the treatment. The study titled “Coping mechanism and its correlation with quality of life in upper limb post-traumatic joint stiffness,” which was recently awarded “S.N. Baksi Award- 2004” was conducted by Dr Aditya Aggarwal, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Dr Adarsh Kohli, Psychiatry Department, on 250 patients.

Dr Aggarwal says, “Recently there has been an increase in the number of road accidents.

Free eye camp at Markfed office
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3
Markfed Blood Trust in association with Fortis Hospital, Mohali, today organised a free eye check-up camp at the Markfed office to mark the golden jubilee year of Markfed.

Inaugurating the camp, the Managing Director of Markfed, Mr S.S. Channy, urged the patients to get their eyes checked regularly.

He talked about cataract and stressed that it should be treated immediately for otherwise it results in poor vision and other eye-related diseases.

Though Markfed is primarily a procurement agency, it would be adopting villages in every district during the 50-year celebrations and will organise more such awareness camps and seminars at grass-roots level.

SPORTS

John Wright arrives
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3
The Indian cricket team coach John Wright, physio John Gloster and physical trainer Greg King arrived here today. In the evening the coach and the physio made a round of Punjab Cricket Association ground. He avoided all queries regarding the Indian team and players.]

He only praised the stadium and its beautiful surroundings. He termed the PCA ground the best venue to start the high-profile series in which three Test matches and six one dayers would be played. He also inspected the pitch but reserved his comments on it. For security, more than 1200 Punjab police personnel would be deployed in Mohali only, said Mr Rakesh Aggarwal, Superintendent of Police, Mohali.

Varinder wins 400m title
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3
Varinder Singh of Behlana won the 400 meters men’s final on the second day of the rural sports tournament organised by the Sports Department, Chandigarh Administration, at the Sector 46 Sports Complex here today. Other events like wrestling, kabaddi (league basis), volleyball and various athletic events took place.

Results: Wrestling (55 kg) — Satish of Behlana bt Narinder of Palsora; 60 kg — Ashu of Hallomajra bt Anil of Kishangarh; 66 kg — Satish of Dhanas bt Suraj Parkash of Kishangarh and Narinder of Palsora bt Harish of Dhanas; 74 kg — Jatinder of Dhanas bt Parminder of Dhanas and Vinod of Palsora bt Jatinder of Dhanas; 84 kg — Raj Kumar of Palsora bt Jaipal of Palsora and Raj Kumar bt Ashwani of Dhanas; and 96 kg — Raj Singh of Kishangarh bt Vijinder of Palsora and Vijinder of Palsora bt Ashwani of Dhanas.

Volley ball: Dhanas outplayed Behlana 25-13, 25-9 (2-0); 25-15, 22-25, 27-25; and Dadu Majra bt Behlana 25-13, 25-9 (2-0).

Kabaddi (league basis): Dadumajra bt Khuda Lahora 48-8; Dhanas bt Maloya 35-27; Dhanas bt Khuda Lahora 33-12; Maloya bt Kajheri 21-19; Kajheri bt Khuda Lahora 27-14; and Dadu Majra bt Maloya by 28-12.

Long jump (men): Satminder Singh of Palsora 1; Bhagwant Singh of Dadumajra 2; and Kulwinder Kumar of Khuda Jassu 3.

Discus throw (men): Rajesh Kumar Rathi of Kaimbwala 1; Lakhmir Singh of Kajheri 2; Satminder Singh of Palsora 3.

Badminton meet

The Hutch-Chandigarh Press Club Inter-Media Badminton Tournament begins tomorrow at the outdoor courts on the Press Club premises. In this tournament, eight players in the single category and eight in doubles category will be vying for the winning slots.

Mauritius boxers for A.K. Misra championship
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3
The 12th All-India A.K. Misra Memorial Boxing Championship started today at the Sector 10 Skating Rink, here today. Ms Indu Misra, wife of late A.K. Misra, declared the tournament open. Apart from the 27 Indian teams, 10- member boxing team from Mauritius is taking part in this tournament.

A.K. Misra, who also happened to be the president of the Chandigarh Amateur Boxing Association, was shot dead by militants in 1992 and this tournament has been held regularly in his memory since then.

Results: light fly weight category: Ganesh Mohrama (Del) bt S. Suresh (TN); RSC(OC); Avinash J. (Maharashtra) bt Vipan Kumar (Punjab); Adeenaden (MRI) bt Kamal Kumar(HP).

Fly weight category: Santosh (Goa) bt Sandeep Yadav (Chandigarh Yellow): K. Chiranjivi (AR) bt Felex (MRI); M Nasir Q (UP) bt Naveen MS (Mah); S. Dhanwal (Haryana) bt Bhim Panday (Chandigarh Green); Mahesh Singh (UTR) bt Tirlok Singh (Delhi): SB Thapa (AR) bt R. Prabhu (Tamil Nadu).

Feather weight category : Ravinder Saini (Haryana) bt Jaswinder Singh (Chandigarh Yellow); Pradeep (Delhi) bt Jagdish Parshad (MP): A. Rlanda (MRIA) bt Ajitpal Singh (PEPSU); Siddharth (Maharashtra) bt Amit Kumar (Bengal).

Defence golfers back Tayal
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3
The local Defence Service Golf Brotherhood, having more than 200 members, at its executive committee meeting held under the chairmanship of Major Som Dutt today decided to support Mr M. L. Tayal for the post of president of the Chandigarh Golf Club in the coming elections.

They also decided to field Brig A. S. Gill, Col J. S. Kang, Col Iqbal Singh and Col J. S. Sandhu in the elections to the executive body from Mr Tayal's team.