{"title":"Satisfaction of stakeholders with the government e-marketplace platform in a tertiary care hospital of northern India.","authors":"Saru Sethi, Pankaj Arora, Vipin Koushal","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_980_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_980_2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Background Automation of the procurement process through e-procurement is a key strategy for enhancing industrial operations management. E-procurement in the supply chain allows companies to use the internet to procure materials and handle value-added services. The Government of India, in the year 2016, introduced the government e-marketplace (GeM) for public sector procurement. Any new intervention faces challenges, and stakeholder feedback can help improve the system. Our study uses stakeholder satisfaction to assess the implementation of GeM compared to traditional/other purchase methods. Methods We undertook a prospective study in the procurement division of a tertiary care institute over 1 year. The study tool was a questionnaire containing 28 questions to analyse the stakeholders' satisfaction. Results Of the total participants in the study, 40.6% were secondary buyers, 37.5% were storekeepers and 21.9% were dealing hand/hospital purchase division clerks. The stakeholders opined ease in process, time bound and transparency as the parameters in which GeM is better than the conventional platform. Conclusion A public procurement process should ensure efficiency, economy and accountability in the system. Given the findings, the GeM platform is a welcome addition to the public procurement landscape. While the platform has definite advantages, there is a need to strengthen it further to meet the specific needs of the healthcare industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"115-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secondary mania caused by olfactory groove meningioma: A case report.","authors":"G O Un Kim, Bon D Ku","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_170_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_170_2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The major clinical manifestations of orbitofrontal cortex lesions include disinhibition, perseveration and obsessive-compulsive and antisocial behaviours. Some patients with orbitofrontal cortex lesion can show mood elevation. We report a 69-year-old female who presented with manic and inappropriate emotional responses caused by a large olfactory groove meningioma. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a large, extra-axial mass with homogenous enhancement in the olfactory groove, compressing the orbitofrontal cortex. She showed no focal or lateralising neurological signs. We did standardized neuropsychological batteries, including the Young Mania rating scale to evaluate her manic symptoms. After removal of the tumour, her manic symptoms and abnormal behaviours gradually disappeared. These findings suggest that her manic symptoms might have resulted from compression of the orbitofrontal cortex due to the olfactory groove meningioma. Clinicians must have an index of suspicion for organic brain lesion compressing the orbitofrontal area when a patient without a history of psychiatric disease develops progressive manic symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"96-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combined hereditary spherocytosis and β-thalassaemia trait: A rare co-existence.","authors":"Iffat Jamal, Shuchismita, Vijayanand Choudhary","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_165_2024","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_165_2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Haemoglobinopathies, the most prevalent haemolytic disease in India, make up the majority of patients in most haematology outpatient clinics. The most prevalent hereditary haemolytic anaemia is beta-thalassaemia trait (βTT). It often remains undiagnosed as it has an asymptomatic clinical course. However, βTT needs be identified to provide genetic counselling to the affected families and to reduce the number of affected children born, which will lower their overall financial burden. Better screening methods for haemoglobinopathies have increased the detection of mixed haemolytic anaemia. We report a patient with combined βTT and hereditary spherocytosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"100-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enub Ali, Ankur Sachdeva, Avinash Thakur, Shilpa Khullar, Padmini Das, S Zafar Abbas
{"title":"Knowledge and attitude of college students towards cannabis use in urban India: A comparative perspective of users and non-users.","authors":"Enub Ali, Ankur Sachdeva, Avinash Thakur, Shilpa Khullar, Padmini Das, S Zafar Abbas","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_451_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_451_2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Background We aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude about cannabis use among college students in India, compare the perspective among users and non-users and lay a framework for development of effective primary prevention strategies in future. Methods This cross-sectional study was done in different colleges of Mumbai. Two hundred and sixty students of both sexes aged between 18 and 25 years were selected by systematic random sampling. Participants had to fill a sociodemographic questionnaire and a self-administered questionnaire that was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software. Results About 11.2% of the participants were users of cannabis and around 15% of them expressed a desire to take cannabis in the future. About 72% users were introduced to cannabis by their friends. The most common reasons for consumption of cannabis were peer pressure (29.6%), followed by stress reduction (23.5%) and experimentation (21.9%). The majority of participants (81%) did not favour legalization of cannabis use. However, more than half the participants were unaware of cannabis-related legal issues. Non-users considered cannabis to be more harmful and addictive than users who held a more permissive view regarding effects of taking cannabis. Conclusion The knowledge regarding harmful and legal implications of cannabis is relatively low amongst college students. Peer pressure, stress reduction and experimentation remain the commonest reasons for consumption. Imparting knowledge in early adolescence remains crucial in mitigating ignorant attitudes towards harmful cannabis use.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"78-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attitude towards psychiatry and mental illness among medical students: A cohort study.","authors":"Diamsalon Mukhim, Arunima George, Rajesh Gopalakrishnan, Mahasampath S Gowri, Anju Kuruvilla","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_157_2023","DOIUrl":"10.25259/NMJI_157_2023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Background Medical students' attitude towards psychiatry (ATP) and mental illness will impact their choice of psychiatry as a future specialization and the quality of mental healthcare that they deliver to their patients. There is a paucity of longitudinal research on students' ATP and mental illness at different periods during medical school. We aimed to assess the attitudes of a cohort of medical undergraduates towards psychiatry and mental illness, before and after a clinical psychiatry rotation. Methods Medical students, in their second clinical year, underwent the first assessment on the 1st day of the psychiatry rotation. Socio-demographic information was collected. ATP and mental illness were assessed using the ATP-30 and the attitudes towards mental illness (AMI) scale, respectively. Assessments were repeated on the last day of the rotation and again 1 year later. Results One hundred and three medical students completed the pre- and immediate post-rotation survey questionnaire. One student withdrew consent for the 1-year assessment. There was an increase in ATP-30 and AMI scores after the rotation, and this persisted at the 1-year assessment. However, only the increase in ATP-30 scores was statistically significant. There was a significant reduction in the number of students with an overall negative attitude towards psychiatry and mental illness at 1 year. Conclusion Students generally had positive attitudes towards psychiatry and mental illness before the rotation. This improved further by the end of the rotation and persisted at 1 year of follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"84-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on: Predatory journals: What can we do to protect their prey?","authors":"Himel Mondal, Shaikat Mondal","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_250_2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_250_2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clean fuel-based interventions for reducing non- communicable disease burden at community level.","authors":"Pranav Sankar, Harshal Ramesh Salve","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1641_2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_1641_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"102-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnosis and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.","authors":"Varshitha Tholasappa, Shyam Sundar Arumugham","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_511_2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_511_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"104-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indian connection of Albert Einstein.","authors":"Sachi Sri Kantha","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_214_2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_214_2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from Chennai.","authors":"M K Mani","doi":"10.25259/NMJI_1628_2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25259/NMJI_1628_2024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519891,"journal":{"name":"The National medical journal of India","volume":"38 2","pages":"124-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}