Drumbeat of vaccination
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The pandemic challenged the world to develop vaccines quickly
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The pandemic challenged the world to develop vaccines quickly
The recent launch of a long-awaited vaccine for COVID-19 brought to mind an image from my first exposure to mass vaccination in 1958. A drummer walked into an
agraharam at Manamadurai, a small village in Ramnad district of Tamil Nadu. The drumbeats brought out everyone from either side of the street chock-a-block with houses. In a singsong tone, he announced the need to eradicate smallpox, while his companion began his vaccination work.
I, five years old then, hid behind my aunt. Much as I resisted and kept my eyes tightly closed, I ended up having four vaccination marks, two in each arm. How did that happen? Even my aunt did not know, but she explained the vaccination process placing a drop from a container on the skin and scratching through it. My two-year-old brother mimicked it on everyone’
For brave young women
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Acquire skill-oriented education, passion for a career, physical skills and financial security.
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Acquire skill-oriented education, passion for a career, physical skills and financial security.
My New Year resolution is to empower women through a message that has been buzzing in my head all through my adult years. I have watched, heard and read so much about abuse of women that I consider it my mission to address the issues faced by women in light of my 35 years of experience as a teacher and mother, though I know that the subject has been debated, discussed and dissected worldwide by eminent personalities, experts, serious thinkers as well as victims.
Home lessons on time management
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See how household chores are dispatched efficiently instead of taking tips from seminars.
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See how household chores are dispatched efficiently instead of taking tips from seminars.
Having attended a few motivation classes and having resolved to become a motivation trainer in my own right, I decided to reinforce an area which has always failed me right from my birth time management, TM for short. I say right from my birth because I was rather in a hurry to make my entry into the world, doing it two months ahead of schedule. This could be the physiological reason for my poor TM.
Durability and utility
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Is there a change in consumer preference with instant gratification taking precedence over lasting value?
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Is there a change in consumer preference with instant gratification taking precedence over lasting value?
As a small boy, I saw an advertisement in a shop saying “the cost is long forgotten”. The line attracted me. I was too young to understand its true meaning, and so I asked my father what it was. His reply satisfied me, when he said the quality of the product would be remembered long and its cost would be forgotten. In short, the line mentioned that quality is supreme to cost.
It ensures that the patient remains in a familiar environment, even during the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many of our habits and ways of thinking in all walks of life. So has it changed medical care and the facilities offered. Globally, in the context of the pandemic, demand for ICU beds surpassed the capacity. The persisting reluctance among the public to go to hospital due to the fear of contracting the dreaded infection has resulted in reduced hospital admissions. The restrictions enforced with regard to the number of people who can stay with a patient also pose difficulties in hospital admissions.