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Introduction: Facility Based Newborn Care (FBNC) is a critical intervention to improve child survival & to reduce neonatal mortality rate Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) is major challenge.Objectives: Toanalyze morbidity profile of neonates admitted in special newborn care units of a tertiary level hospitals and medical college attached hospitals of Gujarat State. Method: A cross sectional descriptive study where record based secondary data collected & analysed for key indicators from all Govt. supported Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCUs) which are in Medical college attached hospitals, district hospitals and grant in aid trust hospitals. April 2014 to March 2016 was the study period. Results: The study found near proportions of (53%) inborn, (47%) out born admission and 44% admission of female. Out of 69,662 admissions, 67% were discharged, 16% died, 10% leaving against medical advice, and 7% referred to higher centers. Major reasons for admission were respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) (22%) and infection (21%). Conclusion: Strengthening of appropriate facility care is essential to address neonatal mortality. The health interventions needed to tackle NMR differ from those needed for infant mortality rate and under-five mortality rate.

Background Food borne diseases including food borne intoxication and infection are term applied a disease caused by agents that enter body through consumption of contaminated food. with increase in urbanization, industrialization, mass catering systems food borne diseases are on increase throughout the world. Objectives: To investigate the food borne outbreak affecting 156 girl students studying in standard VII to XII of low literacy girl high school run by tribal subplan office, Rajpipala Narmada District. Materials and Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted. The team members reviewed medical records and inter- viewed affected students, teachers, principal, food handlers & pa- trons of the food vendor. Results: Out of 360, 156 students suffered from acute gastroenteritis (43.3% attack rate) during 9:00 am to 12:30 pm on 11th December 2017. Seventy-four (74) out of those 156 complained about vomiting, 14 had Headache & 66 were suffered from mild abdominal pain. There was no death reported. 10 student’s vomitus sample were col- lected and out of these six sample shows staphylococcal infection. Conclusion: The possible source of infection is milk supplied as breakfast to the students

Introduction: A Carbon footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them. It represents the human impact on the Earth in a clear manner. Material & methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among faculty members of B.J Medical College & Hospital Ah- medabad, Gujarat, India. The study was conducted in month of June to October 2011. Study Participants included 125 medical doctors of different departments of the college and hospital inter- viewed by pre-designed and a pre-tested questionnaire. Coded data were analyzed in Epi info version 3.5.1. Percentages have been presented. Results: Male: female ratio 56:44.Their carbon foot-print was poor because 88% of them didn’t use share-based vehicles or public transport. Only 5.6% had solar devices at home. Housing-footprint was good as 100% of them used water-saving-techniques at home. Use of elevator (40.6%) was found common. 62.4% never used or- ganic food. Goods & service foot-print was poor; only 13.6% didn’t use plastic bags on daily basis. 23.2% never bothered about usage of mobile phones, 12.8% were not interested in tree- plantation.