Heart workshop

Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) organised a workshop on complex cardiac procedures at its newly inaugurated auditorium on Saturday.

Governor Ram Nath Kovind and Anil Kumar, a cardiologist and professor at Grant Medical College, Mumbai, inaugurated the workshop.

IGIMS additional medical superintendent Manish Mandal was the key speaker. He said doctors of the cardiology department had successfully done around 100 angioplasty and 1,000 angiography procedures ever since the start of the cath lab.

Director of the institute N.R. Biswas said the workshop enlightened the medical fraternity about skilled cardiac procedures. The head of cardiology department B.P. Singh showed how to do an angiography for difficult cases of triple blocks in the heart.

He stressed that in such cases, a good interventional cardiologist could save patients from bypass surgery by putting three to four stents in the cardiac vessel.

"Usually, the procedure costs around Rs 4 to 5 lakh but at IGIMS, it costs less than Rs 1.25 lakh. This facility is for the poor.

The department is working hard day and night to save patients who cannot afford this treatment," he added.

Waste recycle competition

A non-government organisation, Pahal, organised an inter-school competition - Katran 2015 - based on recycling waste materials at St Xavier's High School on Saturday.

Seven city schools, including Radiant International School, St Joseph's Convent High School, St Michael's High School, Usha Martin World School and St Karen's High School, took part in this competition. The participants were from classes IX to XII.

Pahal head of operations Kumar Vishal said the objective of the programme was to spread the human need to be closer to nature.

"By taking part in the competition, students can instantly generate ideas on how to make craft items by using waste items. I am happy to see the energy level of the participants and their unique ideas," he added.

In category A (classes IX and X), Soumya and Raunika of St Xavier's School got the first prize while the second prize was bagged by Ishani and Omkar of Usha Martin World School and Swetlana and Ananya of Mount Carmel High School. Shivanshi and Shivani of St Joseph's Convent High School got the third prize.

In category B (classes XI and XII), Simran and Anushri of St Xavier's High School bagged the first prize while Divya and Priyanka of Vidyashram Public School and Sumit and Pallavi of DAV Public School, BSEB Colony, bagged the second and third prizes, respectively.