Completed in 2020 in Lavale, India. Occupying the lower slopes of a hill within Symbiosis International University’s 260-acre estate in Lavale, Symbiosis University Hospital and.
Senior citizens await their turn at a vaccination centre in Dahisar
PUNE: Public health experts have cited emerging evidence and said India could consider delaying the second dose of the Covid vaccine to improve immunogenicity. Currently, the follow-up shot is given 28 days after the first one. TOI spoke to several experts who said suggested extending that timeline. Dr Gagandeep Kang, a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), which is advising the WHO, said the decision to delay was not just about supply constraints, but improved efficacy too.
A recently published Lancet study has said the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made in India by Serum Institute as Covishield showed greater efficacy when its second dose was administered after a gap of 12 weeks, instead of four. The study was based on results from over 17,000 trial participants. The researchers found that efficacy of the shot had risen from an average of 55.1% (after two doses were given fewer than six weeks
SMCW - Maharashtra’s first ‘women only’ medical college
March 07, 2021
Symbiosis Medical College for Women. Photo: SMCW website×
The ‘Anandi Gopal Scholarship’ is awarded to the college’s top five students, who qualified through the NEET exams
At their induction ceremony in February 2021, the students of the first-year MBBS batch at The Symbiosis Medical College for Women (SMCW) in Pune watched the Marathi movie ‘
Anandi Gopal’ with mixed emotions of admiration and contentment.
The film, based on the struggles of Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (March 31, 1865–February 26, 1887), one of the first Indian female practitioners of western medicine (alongside Kadambini Ganguly), led to setting up of the college.