Background: Lack of knowledge and poor personal hygienic practices during menstruation can lead to various gynecological problems in the reproductive life of girls. There is difference in prior awareness about menstruation and menstrual hygiene among rural and urban adolescent girls. Aims & Objective: To study and compare knowledge, attitude and practices of menstruation and menstrual hygiene in rural and urban adolescent girls. Material and Methods: This was a community based cross-sectional study in rural and urban filed practice area of Indira Gandhi government medical college, Nagpur on the 310 adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years from each area. Results: Awareness regarding menstruation was more in urban adolescent girls (63.38%) as compared to rural (47.57%). 62.03% of urban girls were using commercially available sanitary pads as compared to 43.4% of rural girls. Conclusion: Awareness regarding menstruation and menstrual hygiene was unsatisfactory in rural area as compared to urban area.

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Background: Rabies being 100% fatal disease, every individual is vulnerable to animal bite irrespective of age, sex and socio-economic status. Children are at greater risk. Though most of the bites are by pet animal and provoked, they are more severe, usually on proximal part of the body including face, neck and scalp and thus lifethreatening. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional hospital based study in the anti-rabies vaccination (ARV) clinic from November to April 2013. Every new child below 15 years attending the out-patient department was interviewed along with his parents for demographic data, details of animal bite and treatment received and also myths following animal bite after taking an informed consent using a pre-designed proforma. The results were analyzed by proportion and percentages. Results: Prevalence of animal bite in children was found to be 32.98%. It was more in the age group of 5-10 years and rural children. Nearly 23.96% of children were having lacerated wound and 11.75% were having injury on head and face. About 31.12% of the children reported late by 24 h. Local cleaning of wound was not satisfactory in 66.82% of the children. ARV schedule was not completed by 8.99% of the children while anti-rabies serum was not received by 86.16% of children. Myths regarding restrictions of milk and rice were prevalent in 94.56% population. After counseling also 44.67% were reluctant to the advice. Conclusion: About one-third of cases being related to children, prevention and control strategies are needed to reduce it.

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Background: The covid pandemic started from Hubei, Wuhan in December 2020 then covered many other countries including India. Understanding the demographic and clinical characteristics of deceased COVID-19 patients could inform public health interventions focusing on preventing mortality due to COVID-19. The present study was done with the objective of studying the socio-demographic and clinical profile of deceased patients with coronavirus disease.Methods: This is a hospital based cross-sectional study on 1190 deceased patients of coronavirus disease in a tertiary care hospital of central India which is a dedicated covid hospital from 11 March 2020 to 28 February 2021. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of deceased patients were recorded.Results: Overall case fatality rate was 13.24%. Maximum number of deaths occurred in the month of August 2020 and September 2020 were 372 (31.26%) and 477 (40.08%). It was higher in the males 791 (66.47%) as compared to females 399 (33.53%), but the difference was not significant. The most common symptom was fever on hospitalization 924 (77.65%), followed by generalized weakness 771 (64.79%). 352 (29.58%) patients died within 24 hours of the admission to hospital. Hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus were the most prevalent morbidity in 557 (46.80%) and 357 (30.00%). It was found that 232 (19.50%) deceased patients had oxygen saturation less than 50% on admission.Conclusions: Higher age and presence of co-morbidities at the time of admission were significantly associated with mortality.