Kozhikode: Actor Pearle Maaney, and Safiya Ahammed and Shabana Faizal, directors of Meitra Hospital, Kozhikode, on Tuesday inaugurated the Centre of Excellence (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) at the Hospital.

P K Ahammed, chairman emeritus of the Hospital, Faizal E Kottikolan, chairman, and Dr Ali Faizal, director of the Hospital, were present during the inaugural of the new Centre at Meitra Hospital.

Dr Aruna Menon, HOD of the Centre, spoke regarding the launch of the new Centre.

Dr Sandhya Pradeep, obstetrician and senior consultant, and Dr Reshma Rasheed, gynaecologist and associate consultant at the new Centre, described the various facilities and amenities that the Hospital would provide at the Centre to patients.

Dr Anto Fedine, consultant in Neonatology, said that the new Centre has state-of-art facilities to help new mothers in relation to delivery of pre-term children too.

Dr Tanuja, senior registrar, spoke on the facilities that would be available for patients from easy admission to discharge.

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.