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Research training at higher education level for clinical and teaching staff is important and there are methods to introduce research culture in employees at clinical and teaching departmental level. Objectives: To recognize and quantify the research productivity status of teaching and clinical faculty of [DUHS] Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi before and after its establishment in 2003. Design: Non experimental cross sectional study. Period: 1st October 2012 to 1st February 2013.. Setting: Medical college Karachi. Subjects and method: Students of third semester were applied to sort out the ten years record from 1998 to 2008 of all researches conducted by faculty of Dow University of Health Sciences, published in international and national journals by using different online search engines. Research Output was measured in terms of the increase in the number of publications and quality of publications before and after the launch of Dow University. Data was entered in Microsoft office excel version 2007 and analyzed it in statistical package for social sciences [SPSS] version 17; person chi-square was applied to test the statistical significance at 95% confidence interval. Results: Data of total 594 researches was found out between the years1998 to 2008, 175[29.5%] researches were published before the foundation of Dow university of Health sciences Karachi [2003] while 419[70.5] researches were produced after 173[45.6%] research papers were published in indexed journals before, "whereas" 206[54.4%] were published in indexed journal after 2003. Original research articles were 152 [31%] before 2003, which rose to 339 [69%]. Publications of article types such as case reports, case series, and short communication, editorials and review articles also increased to 80 from 23 after establishment of Dow University. Conclusions: From a total of 594 faculty researches o published in indexed and non indexed journals between the years 1998 and 2008; there was a significant increase in production after establishment of Dow university of Health Sciences Hence it is confidently reported that due to establishment of research committees after the founding, there is a promotion and facilitation of research activities among faculty members.
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Developing countries have a high incidence of burn injuries creating a fear or respect public health problem. Acid assault is one of the most savagely violent of crime which aims to punish the victim or to destroy the victim's social life. This violent usually occurs in third world countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran etc. In Pakistan 7 to 17 burn admissions annually recorded during the study period. To assess the epidemiological factors in terms of incidence morbidity and mortality and the effect of social and cultural issues associated with the chemical burns. A cross sectional retrospective Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted in burns ward of Civil Hospital Karachi from May 2004 to Oct2010. All the patients were identified the etiology and the extent of damage that was produced as a result of throwing corrosive chemicals. Overall 127 patients record were included in study. It was more commonly found in younger age group i.e. 21 -30 years. The incidence was much more in males [74.0 %] as well as stratified by age. Majority of the patients [90.6%] were burn with Accidental. Moreover, the patients who had 3RD degree burn [41.9%] that leads to more mortality in our circumstances. Septicemia was the leading cause of death. The burn injury was significantly associated with degree of burn, depth, extent and mode of injury. The most common incidence found was accidental followed by assault. Lack of information about the catastrophic outcome of this action plus the wide spread availability of strong destructive chemicals are the main reasons for the rising incidence of this crime. The majority of deep burns were on homicidal. So measure should be taken to generate awareness for protective measures, immediate first aid, proper professional treatment, restriction in availability of acid, implementation in the existing law regarding the bail of accused etc to prevent these accidents and ensure safety