Anaemia : some facts and an innovative idea

        Anaemia is one of the major public health problems worldwide (acc. to World Health Organization). When we hear this, the first thing that comes to our mind is - what is anaemia ? We hear this term almost daily that someone known to us has anaemia. We advice them to take iron tablets, iron tonics, nutritious foods etc. Now let's discuss some facts about anaemia in short. Anaemia - is low haemoglobin level in the blood. This haemoglobin is present in our red blood cells. Each haemoglobin molecule is composed of a 'haem' portion with a globin chain(protein). Iron is an integral part of this 'haem'. Other factors that help in haemoglobin synthesis are vitamin B12 and folic acid. Vitamin C is also important, as it increases iron absorption from diet in the body. Haemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to rest of the body and to the tissues, where oxygen is utilised for various metabolic processes that provide energy and are necessary for our well-being. Our body can utilise the oxygen that we get from atmosphere, only when it is transported by haemoglobin to target tissues. Now if haemoglobin level is low, then oxygen carrying capacity of blood will decrease. The tissues will suffer from low oxygen availability, and the problems due to anaemia will arise.

The etiology for anaemia in India :

My friend, my notebook

Ah!! Finally going to write something on a blank white page. The feeling of being away from my blog was pathetic, and more painful was sitting in front of the white blank screen of my laptop, with a wish to write something. So many thoughts were coming up in my mind, I wanted to write them down, words were like in front of my eyes, but I was not able to string them together into a sentence. Also I needed some time to sit back, relax and think to fill up the blank page. My profession is so demanding and I was hardly getting any chance to do that since last few months. May be my laptop was also unhappy for me, because the motherboard crashed. And I had to wait for few more days to publish my blog post. My friends suggested me to buy a new laptop than repairing this one, because the cost of repairing the motherboard would be same as buying a lower configuration laptop. But there is this one problem in me, I become too emotionally attached with the gadgets that I use. And it hurts me a lot to replace those gadgets until they are irreparable. I bought a Samsung galaxy series phone last year, android operating system is real fun, but still I always use my old Nokia N-series phone. My laptop is only two years old and with good configuration. I was not willing to replace it with a new laptop of lower configuration. My friends make joke of my attachment with my gadgets. I also sometimes think that it's time to replace the old ones with the new ones, but should we throw away the old ones even if it is functioning ? I really can't do this. I had to replace the motherboard.

Writing has always been my passion. When I was in school, since then writing is my hobby.  At that time, I only got chance to write something while writing those essays in my exams. But that was limited because I had to think about the impression of my writing on the examiner and obviously,