Family’s sufferings from asymptomatic COVID: Clinicians’ perspective

Anticipating dire consequences, in 2020 the world braced itself for the unparalleled pandemic by resorting to unprecedented measures including stringent lockdowns, unforeseen social isolations, spotlight focus, resource diversions besides reorganized healthcare systems to name the quintessential few. Such unifocal convergence enhanced the vulnerabilities of patients dependent on non-COVID healthcare assistance. For a nation with a meagre allocation of 0.7 hospital beds per 1000 people and a lopsided doctor-population ratio of 1:1800, COVID-centric measures created unintended complications. Ironically, many succumbed in myriad ways, not due to the pandemic but due to the attributes of the survival measures. While such consequences cannot be reversed, we need to be able to draw learnings from all such experiences. Particularly, as healthcare advances into the 21st century and we evolve towards an individualized care model, the contrasting “blanket treatment approach,” while an understandable contingency measure for pandemic emergencies, warrants serious attention. With this narrative, we would like to highlight the anguish and frustration faced by the parents and the doctors as multifarious elements complexly entangled to delay a crucial surgery in a two-year-old child with prolonged RT-PCR positivity. Knowing that mankind is likely to face such pandemics again, future responses require us to visualize the whole picture from a zoomed-out perspective to be able to roll out a synchronized holistic strategy. One needs to introspect on the mutilations incurred, to help redesign our disaster management responses, in order to address “all cause” damage and not just the pandemic ones. Experience Framework This article is associated with the Patient, Family & Community Engagement lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework (https://www.theberylinstitute.org/ExperienceFramework). Access other PXJ articles related to this lens. Access other resources related to this lens

Awareness and Attitude towards Plagiarism among Post Graduate Students and Research Scholars of Select Social Sciences Departments of Kurukshetra University and Panjab University, Chandigarh

This study explores the awareness and attitude towards plagiarism among postgraduate students and research scholars of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KU) and Panjab University, Chandigarh (PU). The findings of the questionnaire based study reveal that 53.64% of KU and 79.9% respondents of PU were acquainted with the term plagiarism. More than 41% respondents became aware of this term in their present university and more than half of the total respondents came to know about this concept during last one year. Only 23.97% had attended plagiarism awareness programmes. The understanding and attitude towards plagiarism needs greater attention. Maximum 88.35% respondents considered ‘Using someone’s ideas/words without acknowledging his/her’ as plagiarism while 48.63% did not consider ‘Helping your friend/classmate write a paper that must be submitted by him/her as an assignment’ as plagiarism. The main reason of plagiarism was lack of proper understanding of the concept and therefore it is suggested that awareness programmes on plagiarism and training programmes on methods of citation should be conducted

Phytochemical study of Hydroalcoholic extract of Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) Leaf

Today’s era of science in which everyone is busy to get luxurious life style, here the people of India have not much knowledge about actual effect of this plant. Today normally Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) used in many part of the world, but this plant is also found in Chattishgarh in India. Lahsun Bel or Jangali Lahsun are a very important folk medicine in India. Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) is an important drug is not namely mentioned in the traditional medicinal texts. It is a very efficacious plant remedy for the pain and inflammatory conditions like arthritis and rheumatism as well as it also can be used in cold, flu and fever. Generally leaves are used in form of infusion or decoction. Roots are used in the preparation of cold maceration and tincture andgenerally taken as a whole body tonic. The plant has antibacterial,anti-cholesterolemic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-rheumatic, antispasmodic, antitussive and antiviral used traditionally. Whole part of Jangali Lahsun or Lahsun Bel are used for medicinal purpose. Pharmacognostic study or phytochemical investigation of these leaves has not been performed yet. The present work deals with the qualitative phytochemical evaluation of the leaf of Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) and establishment of its quality parameters

Synthetic Model for Evaluation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India

Abstract-The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (i.e.MSME) sector is a significant contributor to the Indian economy. Based on official figures from the Ministry of MSME, November 2008, this sector contributes 8% of National GDP, comprises 50% of India's total manufactured exports, 45% of India's total industrial employment and 95% of all industrial units. The MSME sector in India, however, has been changing over time, mostly through changes in government policy. Today there are around 130 lakhs micro and small firms in India. Number of firms in the MSME sector comprises a staggering 95% of all industrial units in India. Together they employ more than 8% of the total Indian labor force of 509 million individuals. This amounts to a significant 41 million people who are currently employed in this sector. The MSME sector is a significant contributor to India's exports amounting to 40% of the total share. It also comprises a lion's share (45%) of the total manufacturing output of the country. This calls us to enquire into a process to evaluvate the performance of MSME of the country. But upon extensive literature search we found no evaluation model to be available at the disposal of researchers and policy makers. They have been largely dependent on fragmented studies. The paper attempts to bridge this research gap by developing a Synthetic Model which is largely qualitative in nature so that it can be used for empirical work in the future after testing its robustness. In the process basic principles of social science research have strictly followed and the geographical boundary is set in India