Hypertension doubles heart attack deaths
Chandigarh: People with hypertension, or high blood pressure, are two times more likely to have a heart attack or Chronic Kidney Diseases (CKD), said health experts. Stressing the need for generating awareness on hypertension among media persons, the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER and Chandigarh Press Club invited journalists from across the state of Punjab and Chandigarh to share their queries on the silent epidemic with health experts from the premium institute. The workshop was also being supported by the Strategic Institute of Public Health and Research (SIPHER), Chandigarh and Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI). Experts from the department of Cardiology, Community Health and Public Health, Neurology, Psychiatry, Yoga and Dietetics were invited to share their insights on factors affecting the hypertension among media personnel.
COVID-19: Heart patients need not to panic
Chandigarh: Cardio-Vascular Sciences director Dr Harinder Singh Bedi, speaking during an informative talk on ‘COVID-19 and Heart Patients’ at Ivy Hospital, Mohali, on Sunday, said: “Heart patients don’t need to panic over COVID-19. They just need to take simple precautions that will help them to keep the infection at bay.” Talking about how COVID-19 can impact heart, Dr Bedi said that viruses can attack heart and cause viral cardiomyopathies in which heart’s pumping chambers get weak and may fail to pump effectively.
CAs chalked out vision plan
Chandigarh: CA. Atul Kumar Gupta, president, ICAI in the presence of CA Amitoj Singh Kamboj, new chairman, Chandigarh branch chalked out the action plan for year 2020-21 on the theme “Transforming the Future: Enabling Excellence, Augmenting Trust” during a meeting held by Chandigarh Branch of Northern Indian Regional Council (NIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) at Hotel JW Marriot. Gupta prioritized areas towards robust regulatory mechanism, amplifying the role of the accountancy profession as a partner in national development, future-ready Institute, harnessing Technology, apart from other areas.
CLAT 2020 to be conducted on May 10
Mohali: The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 will be conducted on May 10. The exam will be conducted by National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru for the admission in year 2020-21 in 22 National law universities (NLUs) and 16 affiliated Law colleges & Universities in India. The common law admission test will be administered offline. The online application process for CLAT 2020 has already started on the CLAT website and would last till March 31. In 2019, around 60,000 candidates appeared for CLAT.
Fortis organizes an awareness seminar
Mohali: An awareness session on Coronavirus was organized by Fortis Hospital and Aryans Group of Colleges, Rajpura, Near Chandigarh at its campus. Dr Mohit Kaushal, MD, DTCD, DNB, FIP, EDRM, Fortis Hospital was the Guest speaker on the occasion. Students of GNM, ANM, B. Pharmacy, D. Pharmacy, B.Sc Hons (Agriculture), Diploma (Agriculture) etc attended the session. Dr Kaushal described the origin, causes, symptoms, precautions of the disease. He said that this family of virus causes illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).
Paragon School honours women achievers
Mohali: The NSS unit of Paragon Senior Secondary School, Sec 71 here organised an event to honour women achievers from tricity. The two eminent personalities- Dr. Navdeep Sandhu and Vaishnavi Boora were honoured by the President of the School, Kulwant Kaur and Principal Nirmla Sharma.Dr. Navdeep Sandhu is the founder of Micah Pharmaceutical Company while Vaishnavi Boora has carved out a niche for herself as a fitness athlete, coach and is training many people through her online training program.