Public hospitals in Madras and people associated with them

Abstract

In this follow-up article, we refer to the other public hospital facilities of Madras, viz. the Lock and Naval Hospitals, the Native Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, Eye Infirmary, Maternity Hospital (Egmore), and the Queen Victoria Hospital for Caste and Gosha Women, some of which are operational today. We also include brief notes on a few of the pioneering men and women, who contributed to the development of these facilities.

Mental health consequences of academic stress, amotivation, and coaching experience: A study of India's top engineering undergraduates

“…The numbers are somewhat more drastically high in cases of engineering students, especially for engineering students of prime engineering colleges like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs). In the year 2023, some of the IITs have witnessed multiple cases of suicides on the same campus within a span of a few months; this denotes a "mental health emergency" (Raman, 2023). Students of some campuses have raised their voices for a mental health study to understand the deep-rooted systemic causes behind such frequent suicide cases (Nath, 2023).Not many empirical studies have approached this issue.…”