Saturday Talk - PGIMER

Saturday Afternoon: A unique feature of the Institute is an hours’ talk-cum-discussion on some aspect of life totally unconnected with medicine. On Saturday afternoon, this effort is made to let the faculty and the residents meet persons from different walks of life and have discussion with them on a variety of subjects - ranging from music to politics to meditation.

Saturday Talk
Date	Topic	Speaker
30th July, 2005	Nation on the Cross Road	Sh. Kanwar Sandhu, Resident Editor, The Hindustan Times He talked about judiciary, legislature, executive; the three components of Indian democracy and opined about the rampant corruption there. On one hand he said, India was economically ready for a big leap forward but on the other hand lack of national security, proliferation of the corrupt and a week central state structure was taking it backwards. After the lecture there was a healthy question and answer session.
27th August, 2005	*Vital Importance of Health achieving system for Achieving Equitable Social Development*	Sh. N.N. Vohra, Special Representative of India for the J&K Dialogue He gave a detailed account on how health outcomes could lead to improving the health services of the future. He also outlined the need for community base health services and the need for strengthening existing public sector establishments in the field of healthcare.
24th September, 2005	*Emergencies and their implications for the Health Sector specially in relation to Tsunami*	Dr. (Mrs.) Poonam Khetrapal Singh, IAS, Deputy Regional Director, World Health Organization, New Delhi.
29th October, 2005	*Health and the Poor*	Dr. S.S. Johal, Vice Chairman, Punjab State Planning Commission, Chandigarh.
28th January, 2006	*Too much medicine-Dangers of medicalizing problems of living*	Prof. N.N. Wig, Emeritus Professor, PGI, Chandigarh
25th March, 2006	*Public life/service - A media for change*	Mr. Randeep Singh Surjewala, Hon'ble Minister of Transport & Parliamentary Affairs, Govt. of Haryana.
29th April, 2006	*Leveraging Technology in Fighting Corruption*	Sh. Balwinder Singh, Additional Secretary to Govt. of India, Central Vigilance Commission, New Delhi
30th September, 2006	*The Power of Service*	Sri P Lakshmi Narayanan, a Senior Disciple of Swami Parthasarthy, an internationally philosopher.
24th February, 2007	*Reflections of Human Existence: Human Needs and Human Greed*	Prof. Vijoy Verma, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
28th July, 2007	*Declining Medical Ethics - What can we do*	Dr. P.N. Nagpal, Retina Foundation, Aso-Palov Eye Hospital, Ahmedabad.
25th February, 2012 at 1 PM in Lecture Theatre-1, Nehru Hospital	*Medicine and law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges*	Hon'ble Justice K. Kannan, Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court. Hon'ble Justice J.L.Gupta will preside/chair.
7th April, 2012 at 1.00 P.M. in Lecture Theatre No. 1	*Media a Watchdog or Bloodhound*	Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express. The session will be chaired by Sh. Raj Chengappa, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune.

View Point Session
Date	Topic	Speakers
25th November, 2006	*Should PGI become a financially self sustaining institution?*	Prof. V.K. Kak, Prof. J.S. Chopra, Prof. K.L.N. Rao, Dr. Meenu Singh and Hon'ble members of the Jury Justice R.S. Mongia, Mr. R.K.Saboo & Prof. B.N. Goswami
21st April, 2007	*How can we make PGI Emergency more patient friendly*	Prof. Sanjay Jain, Ms. Preeti Khanna, Prof. B.N. Goswami, Mr. Pawan Mutreja, Mr. Dinesh Kumar, Prof. Raj Bahadur and chaired by Prof. I.C.Pathak, Justice S.S.Dodhi and presided over by the Director PGI.