CHANDIGARH: Dr Deepak Kumar Bhasin, professor, department of gastroenterology, PGI, has been honored with the Indian Council of Medical Research's Basanti Devi Amir Chand Award for 2007. He received the award from union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi on Tuesday. He is known for his work on ...

PATHANKOT: The Gurj Division of the Indian Army on Monday organised a mega medical camp in Bani village under the Sadhbhawna Mission, GoC major general G Sankarnaryanan inaugurated the camp, which was equipped with a team of five specialist doctors from the army and other paramedical staff from the Army ...

AMRITSAR: "About 83% of water is allocated to agriculture and is the major concern of insecurity in the country. About 60% of India's irrigation is ground water-based, while it is as high as 75% in Punjab." These views were expressed by Dr Jagir Singh Samara, chief executive officer, National Rainfall Area Authority, ...

 AMRITSAR: Even as the district health authorities claim to be concentrating on fogging of different areas of the city, the number of dengue cases has witnessed an increase in the past week. However, there have been no casualties so far. AB against 16 cases of dengue reported on last Friday, the ...

CHANDIGARH: The Sangrur chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has opposed the clause in the draft of the bio­ medical waste management rules that makes it compulsory for even small clinics and individual medical practitioners to set up bio-medical waste treatment facilities. In a statement here, IMA Sangrur chief Dr ...

GURDASPUR: More than 5,000 of the total 10,167 children in the 0-5 year age group of the migratory population were administered anti-polio drops under the second phase of thepulse polio migratory campaign in the district on Sunday. Civil Surgeon Dr Chandanjit Singh Kondal said the remaining migratory children will be ...

YAMUNANAGAR: A team comprising health and police officials raided a factory in Gungalo village, 8 km. from here, on Wednesday and confiscated 500 quintals of adulterated jaggery. Thousands of quintals of jaggery had already been dispatched to Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana from the factory, said officials. They said the ...

AMRITSAR: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, has sanctioned a research project Genetic polymorphism, DNA damage and oxidant status in individuals residing in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations to Gursatej Gandhi, reader in the department of human genetics of the Guru Nanak Dev University. Gandhi will ...

AMRITSAR: Following the detection of three dengues cases ­ one from Amritsar district arid two from Gurdaspur - the health authorities have deployed teams at the Attari border to screen people coming from Pakistan. A red alert has already been sounded in Lahore following a dengue outbreak there. Kamal, 23, a ...

YAMUNANAGAR: The district has reported 3,500 malaria cases from 620 villages in Yamunanagar if health authorities are to be believed. The worse hit is Khizrabad village situated on the bank of Yamuna River. Talking to HT, Dr VK Atreja, deputy civil surgeon (malaria) 3,500 cases were detected till Thursday, following ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab health department on Sunday began its three-day pulse polio programme, targeting 7-86 lakh children of migrants in the state. As many as 3.73 lakh children below the age of five years were administered polio drops on Sunday as part of the drive that involved 3,147 teams and 629 ...

CHANDIGARH: With a view to improving health services in Haryana, separate wards for pregnant women would be set up in all government hospitals. Chief parliamentary secretary, health Ram Kishan Fauji stated this here on Thursday. Stating that the decision would prevent pregnant women from all infections pre and post delivery; he ...

PATHANKOT: A local retired colonel has taken upon him­ self the task of ensuring good health for others. The retired colonel has turned a yoga teacher and teaches people free of cost. He even spends from his pocket in organizing yoga camps. His camps attract people, including patients suffering from various diseases. Col Inderjit ...