Sourav Sanyal

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: He’s got three months within which he has to arrange for the whopping sum. But then, his failing health would hardly permit him to run around for raising money for his heart surgery.

sourav sanyal NEW DELHI: In keeping with the acute shortage of trained mental health professionals in the country, the WHO is supporting a project floated by the New Delhi-based VIMHANS, which aims at imparting 'life skills' to adolescents enabling them to double up as counsellors in the respective schools.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Thirty eight children below five years of age from the region have been diagnosed as suffering from AIDS in the last four years in the government hospitals here.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Honeymoon blues! With more and more couples tying the knot these days, city doctors are having a tough time to attend to the stream of women flooding the clinics complaining of abdominal pains virtually everyday.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: It's a case of the classic north-south divide. Experts studying the pattern of Intensive Pulse Polio Immunisation programme in Chandigarh earlier this year say that people staying in the posh northern sectors of the city are not forthcoming enough to get their children vaccinated at the immunisation booths set up by the government.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Union health minister Shatrughan Sinha's vision appears to have gone haywire.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Ink. Gum. Chalk. Lead pencil. Lime plastering on the walls. The list is endless. Unable to bear the ‘‘stress” of modern day living, an increasing number of children, some as young as six years, are getting ‘addicted’ to these ‘alternative’ items.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: The answer to the monkey menace in the PGI might lie with langurs. The PGI is thinking of bringing langurs and making them tour the campus to get rid of the simians.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Thanks to bureaucracy, primary health care in the city winds up by 2 pm. No wonder the dispensaries which dot the city, initially conceived to provide primary level health care to the residents, remain grossly underutilised.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: WHO is sending a team of experts to India to initiate talks with select centres for starting clinical trials of the first-ever HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) vaccine early next year.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: The AIDS epidemic is raging like wildfire if the statistics culled from government hospitals are to be believed.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: If you want to be fair and lovely and think it best to head for the neighbourhood clinic or beauty salon for hair removal and skin rejuvenation, think again.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: As the city gears up to celebrate Diwali, hospitals are leaving no stones unturned to make sure that they are equipped enough to cater to emergencies that might arise out of eye and burn injuries.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Caught unawares by Union Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha's announcement of starting evening OPDs from December 1, PGI is now struggling hard to come to terms with the D-day.

CHANDIGARH: Age might separate them by five years, but they’ll remain twins nonetheless. For, both of them were created in the same laboratory at the same time. It’s a different story though that while one was being cuddled by the parents, the other lay safely in a petri dish inside the freezer.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: PGI director Prof S K Sharma dubs it as an "experiment" which "may or may not succeed". Resident doctors are more than sure that the ‘experiment’ will miserably fail if the illprepared PGI in a bid to honour Union health minister Shatrughan Sinha’s announcement decides to tow the line.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Having refused to join the Evening OPD, the association of resident doctors (ARD) is now seeking the intervention of Union health minister Shatrughan Sinha to scrap the present practice of running morning OPDs at PGI on gazetted holidays.

sourav sanyal CHANDIGARH: Strange are the ways of the world. Attendants of patients undergoing treatment at PGI are being literally made to pay out of their nose when it comes to buying drugs for their relatives.