HEALTH

PGI doctors given clean chit
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1
Three months after a raid by the Vigilance wing of the PGI on operating theatres in Nehru Hospital, PGI, the authorities today gave a clean chit to doctors and other technical staff.

The wing had conducted a raid on 17 lockers of doctors and other technical staff in operating theatres and had seized drugs, implants and other equipment. The doctors had lodged a protest against the raid, terming it as the unethical.

The PGI authorities had constituted a committee under the leadership of Prof Deepak Bhasin of the Department of Gastroenterology, for investigating the matter.

Addressing mediapersons, the PGI Director, Prof K.K. Talwar, claimed that the investigations hardly yielded anything.

Dr Amod Gupta, Chief Vigilance Officer, PGI, said the department had received the committee report. Going through every aspect, the committee had reached a conclusion that none of the lockers contained material that was unexplained. The material was not out of the ordinary and was part of the routine operational arrangement.

The committee had not found any mala fide intention for keeping the material in the lockers. “It was found that the OT staff and the doctors were helping poor and needy persons by using the material in emergency. The committee found that the material recovered from the lockers was disposables left over by attendants of the patients for use by the poor patients, samples given by medical representatives or some indented material from the PGI stores,” claimed Dr Gupta.

He said the committee had recommended certain action that needed to be taken to improve the system of material and drug management so that the action of the OT staff was not dubbed illegal. 

Manav Mangal, DAV paddlers win

Chandigarh, November 1
Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21, and DAV Public School, Sector 8, won the Cadet Girls ( u-12) and Cadet Boys Team Championship, respectively, on the opening day of the 19th Chandigarh State Table Tennis Championship here today.

In the boys’ championship, DAVPS Coaching Centre-8 defeated Manav Mangal-21 boys 3-0, whereas in the cadet girls’ final, Manav Mangal team beat Players’ Table Tennis Club 3-0. The results: Team championship: Mayank Kapoor b Tushar Gupta (11-2, 11-5, 11-9); Mayank Sharma b Aditya Panday (11-7, 11-9, 11-8); doubles: Mayank Kapoor and Mayank Sharma b Tushar Gupta and Aditya Panday (11-2, 11-3, 11-2); cadet girls’: Kalyani b Anviksha (11-7, 11-9, 11-9); Sakshi b Rajeshwari (11-9, 8-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8). TNS

Cricket trials today

Chandigarh, November 1
The Chandigarh Twenty-20 Cricket Association (CTCA) is holding selection trials at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here tomorrow.

According to CTCA president I. D. Kamboj, the association will select probable for participation in the National Twenty-20 Cricket Championship (under-19) to be held in Chandigarh and Panchkula from November 12 to 19. Interested players should bring with them their original date of birth certificate. TNS

2 YMCA coaches attend Bangkok conference
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1
Devinder Kapoor and Aashray Arora, two coaches from the YMCA Total Tennis Academy, Sector 10, here, had attended the 13th ITF Asian Coaches Conference held at Bangkok, Thailand, recently.

The conference, attended by 150 coaches from 17 nations, was held in co-operation with the Asian Tennis Federation and the Lawn Tennis Association of Thailand at the new facility “The Tennis Academy of Asia”, in Bangkok.

The conference was attended by keynote international speakers, Paul Roetert (USTA), Craig Tiley and Craig Morris (Tennis Australia), who made presentations both on-court and in the lecture room.

ADMINISTRATION

Additional charge for Citco MD
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 1
Mr Jasbir Singh Bir, Managing Director, Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (Citco), has been given the additional charge of the Secretary, Printing and Stationery.

Mr Bir relieves Mr Krishna Mohan, Home Secretary, of this additional charge.