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Fun & Sports Gala 2018

This event is organised every year for employees and their families. This
year, the Fun & Sports Gala kicked off in zones with zonal tournaments of
Cricket, Badminton and Table Tennis. Teams from all three zones
participated in the Grand Finale of Badminton, Table Tennis, Squash, Lawn
Tennis and Cricket. Additionally, recreational activities for children such as
tug of war, stand-up comedy, horse-riding, bike-riding, face-painting and
other exciting games brought life to the event and proved to be a source of
entertainment for everyone present.

The Grand Finale of the Cricket Tournament between the North and Central
Zones, was the highlight of the event. It came to a nail-biting close with both
teams playing exceptionally well and winning the hearts of the audience.
However, the cup was raised by the players of the North Zone at the
concluding ceremony, held in Islamabad. PTCL management applauded
all the winners and the runner ups from all categories, and encouraged
them to try again next year to attain the winning slots.
The First PTCL Teens Football Tournament
PTCL organised Teens Football Tournament for children of employees
aged 16 to 19 with an aim to encourage children to engage in healthy
activities. The tournament spanned over a period of 5 days. The events
were largely attended by PTCL employees and their families and it turned
out to be an exhilarating experience for teenagers, just before resuming
school after summer break. The tournament came to a close with
Rawalpindi Telecom Region Team emerging victorious.

Kudos to Our Medical T eam!
Before
The Medical Services at PTCL facilitates its employees to look after their mental and
physical wellbeing. Amongst the many cases shared with us by them, one of the most
pertinent cases of 2018 includes the consultation of Muhammad Arif’s (T elecom T echnician)
daughter; Kiswa Arif, aged 1 year and 7 months. She was brought in for a check-up as her
appetite had decreased severely due to an aversion from food since 1.5 months.

According to the parents, the child had swallowed hair along with plastic bits of a catcher
approximately 1cm in size, but the caretakers were unsure about the ingestion. The child began
to rapidly lose weight due to difficulty faced in swallowing food, and was taken to various
detected inside the child’s body.
ENT specialists over the course of time, who concluded that there was no foreign body

However, the complaint persisted and the child’s condition deteriorated further due to
improper sleep and crying episodes of increasing severity. It was when the parents brought
their grievance to PTCL doctors that a detailed clinical examination of the child was carried
out. Despite preliminary radiology reports being inconclusive, a keen observation was
results.
conducted by PTCL doctors, along with an MRI scan, which again showed inconclusive
After
Nevertheless, with the expertise of two radiologists, an endoscopy was carried out, which led
to identification of the plastic catcher that had pierced through the esophagus, and had gotten
trapped between the esophagus and the cervical vertebrae. The catcher was successfully
the parents relieved and overjoyed.
Retrieved
removed, after which the child began to eat normally, and hence recovered rapidly, leaving
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