The Western region comprising the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa is geographically the largest in India with installed capacity currently around 28000 MW. Peak demand currently around 24000 MW is projected to touch 45000 MW by end of the decade. A large chunk of the increase will have to come from thermal generation located in Eastern Madhya Pradesh and the power will be...

Camel is the only mode of transport in desert. In Gujarat 0.058 million camel population is there. Camel suffers from a number of important diseases viz., trypanosomiasis which is a serious problem in many parts of the world and poses a major threat to camel health. No systemic data is available on the diseases prevailing in the rural camel populations or their off springs maintained in rural h...

The present study measures levels of stigma within health care settings in urban and rural Gujarat, in an attempt to understand how this may have contributed to the state's increasing HIV incidence. Two sites were studied: a rural hospital in Bardoli and an urban hospital in Surat. HIV-associated stigma among healthcare workers (N=170) was assessed using a Stigma Index. Overall, analyses sugges...

1Dekiwadia Hospital, Rajkot, Gujarat; 2Fortis Hospital, Mohali, Punjab; 3Vascular Surgeon – Daya Hospital, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Trichur, Kerala; 4Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab; 5Interventional cardiologist Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy Hosptial, Sir H.N. Hospital, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai.; 6First Choice Vasc...

Handicap International (HI) has supported the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW), Government of Gujarat, in India for the implementation of a State-wide project for prevention, early identification, intervention and rehabilitation of disability and its complications. Despite the Gujarat health system being better developed than other Indian states health systems, disability has lar...

  Background: To study the pattern of acute chemical and pharmaceutical poisoning in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India. Methods: This was a prospective study of patients with chemical and pharmaceutical poisoning who were admitted to the emergency department of Civil Hospital Ahmadabad, from 1st October 2006 to 30th September 2007. Socio-demographic details, intention of poisoning, type of poison, dur...

When a pregnant woman, Vaishali (not her real name), died in a village in Gujarat, we decided to examine the circumstances that led to her death. We asked healthcare professionals and the sarpanch in the village if they could identify the events that caused her death. Not only were they clueless about the cause of Vaishali’s death, they also showed no interest in discussing how such deaths coul...

long-term ingestion of large amounts of fluoride can lead to potentially severe skeletal problems and neurological consequences. the study was conducted to assess and compare intelligence quotient of children living in high and low fluoride areas in kutch, gujarat, india.a cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 100 school children aged 8 to 10 years, living in kutch district, gu...

mohammad akram (ghanimat-e-konjahi) was from gujarat, india and lived during the era of alamgir king (eleventh and twelfth centuries). in his poetry, one can find new ideas and delicate senses especially in his neirang-e-eshgh, which is also known as ghanimat. his complete collection of poetry consists of lyrics, elegies and quatrains. in his poetry, ghanimat has followed great masters of poetr...

BACKGROUND Many low-middle income countries have focused on improving access to and quality of obstetric care, as part of promoting a facility based intra-partum care strategy to reduce maternal mortality. The state of Gujarat in India, implements a facility based intra-partum care program through its large for-profit private obstetric sector, under a state-led public-private-partnership, the C...