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The present study aims to identify the ?nancial strengths and weaknesses of the salem steel plant by properly establishing relationships between the items of the balance sheet and pro?t and loss account. The study covers Salem Steel Plant, a special steels unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd, pioneered the supply of wider width stainless steel sheets / coils in India. The study has been undertaken for the period of twelve years from 2011-12 to 2020-21and the necessary data have been obtained from SAIL database. The liquidity position was strong in case of both the selected companies thereby re?ecting the ability of the companies to pay short-term obligations on due dates and they relied more on external funds in terms of long-term borrowings thereby providing a lower degree of protection to the creditors. The study will help investors to identify the nature of SAIL industry and will also help to take decision regarding investment.
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Introduction: The surge of Covid -19 pandemic and the earlier depletion of resources have led to the need of allocation of patients based on levels of risk. The COVID 19 related mortality has been on increase in people with old age, male gender, infiammatory markers elevation and in people with history of co morbidities. With this background, thus study aimed to observe association between CRP, D-Dimer, Serum Ferritin, The Initial CT Chest Severity Score and the outcome of Covid 19 in patients with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus. A hospital based retrospective study was done among COVID 19 patie Materials and methods: nts from the period of September to December 2020. Patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus admitted with RT-PCR positive (or) CT Thorax – CORADS 4 and above with age more than 18 years and having CRP, D-Dimer, Serum Ferritin results within 24 hours after admission were included in the study. The data was collected using a semi structured questionnaire. A total of 531 individuals were participa Results: ted in the study. The mean respiratory rate and oxygen saturation between the survived and deceased groups was statistically significant (p value 0.024 and 0.044 respectively). All the patients had normal blood urea and serum creatinine values. The mean CORADS score of the participants is 4.78 ± 0.60. There is statistically Conclusion: significant difference in the mean respiratory rate and mean SPO2 between deceased and recovered patients. With advancements in medical sciences, it may not be a rigid process to predict severity with laboratory investigations
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Background and Objectives: Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal bacterial disease that mimics many diseases; therefore, laboratory confi rmation is pivotal. Though microscopic agglutination test (MAT) is accepted as World Health Organisation (WHO) reference test, it has got many pitfalls such as being hazardous, tedious, cumbersome and expensive. Counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) is popularly used for diagnosing many infectious diseases but rarely for Leptospirosis. The aim of this study is to fi nd suitability of CIE for the routine laboratory diagnostic purposes. Materials and Methods: Repeat sampling (paired sera) was possible from 401 subjects of which 181 were in-patients of Salem Government General and Private Hospitals and the remaining 220 MAT negative healthy College students gave their consent for the study. All the 802 sera samples were collected from January 2009 to November 2012 and subjected to the present study. After carrying out MAT and CIE on the suspected and control samples, a comparative evaluation was conducted. McNemars test method was used to fi nd out the signifi cant difference between the two tests in the early diagnosis. Result: The sensitivity, specifi city, Positive Predictive value (PPV), Negative Predictive value (NPV) and Effi ciency test for CIE were 96.80%, 89.28%, 95.23%, 92.59% and 94.47%, respectively. The corresponding values for MAT were 95.90%, 89.83%, 95.08%, 91.37% and 93.92%, respectively. There was no signifi cant difference between MAT and CIE at 95% and 99% confi dence intervals according to McNemars test. P value in the early stage of illness was greater for CIE than MAT when Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) was used as Gold Standard of diagnosis. Interpretation and conclusion: It was concluded that the CIE could be advantageous over MAT due to its safety, rapidity, simplicity, economic and easy for large number of samples. It can answer little earlier than MAT and found as reliable as that of MAT. Since both the tests had shown similar effi cacies in the later stage of the illness, the importance could be given to CIE due to early diagnosis.
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Poisoning is an important public health problem causing significant morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Information available with regard to acute poisoning in adults is limited at Salem, Tamil Nadu. Hence this study was done with the above objective. It is a retrospective study conducted during Jan 2009-Jan 2012 in a tertiary care hospital. 150 cases of acute poisoning in adults due to drugs and chemicals were included. Data on age, sex, marital status, occupation, religion, locality, type of poison, time and month of intake, route of exposure, associated co-morbid conditions and outcome of poisoning were recorded and analyzed by descriptive method. Among 150 cases, 148 cases were of intentional poisoning and two cases were of accidental poisoning. In all the cases the route of exposure was oral. Males (92 cases) outnumbered females (58 cases) and 101 cases were married. Peak occurrence was in the age group of 21-30 years (47 cases). Occupation wise poisoning was commonly found among male laborers (18.66%) and farmers (13.33%) followed by house wives (28%) and students (16.66%). 147 cases (98%) were Hindus. More cases were reported during summer season (36%) and day time (80%). Organophosphorus was the commonest agent (58.66%). Associated co-morbid conditions were found in 16 cases. The incidence of poisoning and its morbidity and mortality can be reduced by developing and implementation of effective prevention strategies.