Pattern of patients attending COVID 19 screening clinic: SWOT analysis of a salutogenic endeavour in North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling district, West Bengal.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic is a unique public health challenge causing unprecedented disruptions in normalcy. Low-and-middle-income countries need more context-relevant approaches since a majority of the world population lives here. Pandemic response in India was graded, and routine healthcare came to a screeching halt.

Study of pulmonary functions in tea industry workers in North Bengal.

This study was intended to compare pulmonary function parameters in tea garden factory workers who are on chronic exposure to tea dust with tea garden plantation workers on the basis of dynamic ventilatory pulmonary function tests. The pulmonary function tests done on 128 subjects included 64 tea garden factory workers and 64 tea garden plantation workers. In tea factory workers the values of vital capacity (VC), forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory volume in first 0.