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Rural areas of Doaba, an epidemic zone
Two booked for murdering teenager
Plan to provide jobs to disabled
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Football tourney opens
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Rural areas of Doaba, an epidemic zone
Jalandhar, June 9 Putting the poor population of the villages at the receiving end, eight diarrhoea and cholera outbreaks have occurred in the region during the past two years. As per the figures provided by the health authorities of the all the four districts in Doaba region, six of such epidemics were reported only in Jalandhar district, besides, two in peripheral areas of Hoshiarpur district. “Such epidemics have largely occurred in the low-lying, thickly populated poor colonies of the villages. Poor sanitary conditions and villagers’ dependence on the village waterworks even during such outbreaks is the sole reason for such epidemics,” said Dr Sandeep Sood, in charge, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), Jalandhar. Although, the health authorities of Nawanshahr and Kapurthala districts maintained that no such epidemic have occurred in both the districts in the past two years, the officers concerned admitted that the good number of sporadic cases of acute diarrhoea start coming in the rural health centres every year after the onset of summers. Sources confirmed that since August 2009, acute diarrhoea was reported in Sarhali, Chandan Nagar, Pabwaan-Banipur and Kasupur villages of Jalandhar and Akaam and Miani village of Hoshiarpur district. Worse still, the highly dangerous cholera outbreak also occurred in Shamshabaad and Bathaan village in Jalandhar. Besides a few deaths, hundreds of patients were either reported or admitted to the hospital during these outbreaks. “Having a facility of deep submersible water pumps at their homes, the well-off families are least affected during such epidemics. However, the poor have no option but to drink the unclean water, which gets contaminated due to mixing of sewerage waste due to frequent leakages in supply lines,” said an official. Tarsem Peter of Pendu Mazdoor Union, said, “Poor quality of material was used by the private contractors while developing the waterworks infrastructure in the villages. This substandard material, including underground pipelines, is the major reason for such outbreaks.”
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Two booked for murdering teenager
Batala, June 9 The Fatehgarh Churian police has registered a case on the complaint of Sukha Masih against Govinda and Rocky Masih, both resident of the same village, for killing his son. He told the police that Govinda and Rocky Masih had asked his son to come to the bridge and killed him with a sharp-edged weapon. Govinda and Rocky Masih fled after murdering Sunny. In charge of Fatehgarh Churian police station Inderjit Singh said today that no arrest had been made so far. However, postmortem had been carried out at the Civil Hospital and a case under Sections 302 and 341 of the IPC was registered against Govinda and Rocky Masih at Fatehgarh Churian police station. Narcotics seized
Pathankot: The Sujanpur police seized 200 gram of narcotic powder from Satish Kumar, resident of Sujanpur, here today. The SHO, Rajinder Manhas, said on a tip-off a naka was laid near Madhopur T-point on the Pathankot-Jammu road. A motorcycle (PB-35-A-8818) was intercepted at the naka and during search the narcotic powder, kept in a polythene bag, was recovered, which was to be delivered to someone in the town. A case under the NDPS Act was registered against Satish Kumar. |
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Plan to provide jobs to disabled
Hoshiarpur, June 9 Stating this while addressing a meeting of industrialists of the district here today, Deputy Commissioner Dharam Dutt Tarnach sought their cooperation and instructed the District Employment Officer and General Manager, District Industries Centre, to prepare lists of disabled persons and hand them over to the industrialists so that they could provide suitable employment to the disabled. District Employment Officer Sunita Kalyan said in the first stage a list of 50 per cent disabled persons would be sent to the industrialists at the earliest. — OC |
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Football tourney opens
Hoshiarpur, June 9 Disclosing this while inaugurating the third Doaba Cup sub-junior under-14 football tournament being organised by the Doaba Sporting Club at Khera village, 22 km from here, today, MLA Sohan Singh Thandal appreciated the organisers of the tournament and announced to give Rs 11,000 to the club for promoting the game and gave a cheque for Rs 2 lakh to the panchayat for development. President of the Doaba Sporting Club Iqbal Singh Khera said more than 200 players of the area were participating in the tournament. — OC |
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