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Jaundice Scare Incinerator gathers dust in civil hospital
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Alcohol abuse taking toll on Punjabis
DC to hear grievances every Monday
Mobile firm lands in tone trouble
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Jaundice Scare Ashok Kaura
Phagwara, April 23 The meeting was attended by local bodies minister Manoranjab Kalia, officials of the Phagwara Nagar Council, the Sewerage Board and the Pollution Control Board, including its chairman Yogesh Goyal. It is learnt that Badal asked officials to take immediate remedial measures. Notably, jaundice has already claimed the life of a migrant labourer in Phagwara. The CM also deputed OSD Parveen Kumar who immediately rushed to Phagwara and called a meeting of officers concerned at the local rest house in the afternoon. The meeting was attended by Phagwara SDM Amarjitpal, deputy director local bodies Sarojini Sharda, executive officer Paramjit Singh, besides chief engineer of the Sewerage Board Sat Pal, superintending engineer K.S. Nagla and others. The OSD also visited the Phagwara civil hospital to take stock of the situation. He took a round of a separate ward created for jaundice patients and held discussions with senior medical officer Dr Adarsh Sood who was instructed to make adequate arrangements for prevention of the disease. The OSD told officials of the Nagar Council, including EO Paramjit Singh and executive engineer Pawan Sharma to check illegal water connections and wrong fittings which are resulting in contamination of drinking water. He asked the officials to serve a three-day notice on those having illegal connections. Sources said notices were dispatched to 180 persons by the evening. An emergency survey was conducted to count the manholes between JCT Mills and the bus stand. The council authorities also urged the CM to improve the infrastructure for maintenance of the sewerage. New sewer cleaning machines and increase in funds for the ongoing projects were also sought. While Rs 2,345.42 lakh was demanded for sewerage, Rs 144.57 lakh was sought for improving the water supply. A separate demand for Rs 350 lakh was put forth for shifting of main sewer line. Meanwhile, four new jaundice cases and six diarrhoea cases were detected in the Onkar Nagar locality. The SMO told The Tribune that teams of doctors had been deputed in the affected areas. More than 50 patients were examined and treated today. The residents have been advised to drink boiled water.
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Incinerator gathers dust in civil hospital
Batala, April 23 The biomedical waste of the hospitals is dumped in the open. These garbage heaps can spread infection of unresponsive and sometimes incurable diseases. Such infection can further take the shape of an epidemic through mosquitoes and flies which are increasing at an alarming rate in the town. Each hospital has to make arrangement for the burning of biomedical waste but all the hospitals here, including the civil hospital, dump the waste in the open. Earlier the biomedical waste was collected at one point on the hospital premises and then burnt. But this practice was done away with about a decade ago. The department of health services has provided an incinerator worth lakhs of rupees to the civil hospital for the disposal of biomedical waste, but the same is lying abandoned in a room in the hospital. When contacted, senior medical officer Sukhdeep Singh stated that the incinerator was provided to the hospital but it had not been installed. When this correspondent contacted the chief medical officer of Gurdaspur
district today on his mobile phone, he advised to contact deputy medical officer of the Punjab health systems corporation
Chandanjeet Singh to know the facts about the machine. When contacted, Chandanjeet Singh said the machine was purchased about eight month ago. He further said that the authorities had written to the supplier to give demonstration and install the machine, but nothing has been done by the company so far. |
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Alcohol abuse taking toll on Punjabis
Jalandhar, April 23 This was disclosed by country’s leading liver transplant surgeon Dr AS Soin, who is presently working at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi. “The alarming increase in the number of cases can be gauged from the fact that a total of 520 liver patients from Punjab were examined at OPD of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) in last one year,” said the ace surgeon, who was in the city, while talking to The Tribune. Alcoholism, Hpatitis B & C and liver cancer were the four main causes of liver disease. However, excessive consumption of alcohol was the number one reason for Punjabis’ dwindling liver health, he added. Also Hepatitis C is prevalent in the state . A large number of people are drug addicts and they use common syringes for injecting narcotics. Soin said since many liver diseases cannot be detected at the preliminary stage, it’s important to weed out their causes. “Punjabis should give up alcohol and drugs to prolong their lives,” suggested the doctor. He said there were 22 centres in the country which were doing liver transplantation but only three of them - SGRH, Apollo Hospital in Delhi and Global Hospital in Hyderabad - were doing them on regular basis. “SGRH is amongst the |
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DC to hear grievances every Monday
Kapurthala, April 23 In a press note issued here today, Balamurugan said all the senior officers and heads of departments would be present during hearing of grievances. Balamurugan said attempts would be made to redresas all the grievances on the spot. If it was not possible, the same would be settled within a fortnight and the head of the department concerned would inform the complainant in writing about the action taken or to be taken. The residents of the town have welcomed the move. |
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Mobile firm lands in tone trouble
Phagwara, April 23
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