Social Awareness

  Blood injury injection (BII) phobia is a common psychiatric disorder, with an estimated prevalence of 3% to 4% in the general population . While most patients with blood injury phobia will not look for medical assistance and refuse medical appointments because of anxiety symptoms emerging with exposure, do not present to clinics or hospitals, and generally refuse hospital appointments because these things act as a phobic stimulus to them which increase their anxiety. BII phobia is a condition in which people are likely to faint at the sight of blood, the anticipation of physical injury, or the anticipation of an injection, characterised by avoidance behaviour and intense, irrational fear in response to seeing blood, injections, injuries, disability, or exposure to these or other similar medical procedures . It is often called a blood-injury-injection (BII) phobia because often blood, injury, and injection are the cues that can trigger a faint as is generally represented in the li...

  “ On 30.01.2014 a girl of age around 9 years, resident of Kharagpur in the district of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, was recovered dead (lower portion was uncovered) by local people in a paddy field (Fig. 1). The deceased was missing from 29.01.2014 evening while she went to the neighbour’s house. As opined by the near relatives and the local people, the girl died due to fatal sexual assault and murder by smothering. Police suspected the case to be a sexual assault and murder while the victim resisted rape. On the next day (31.01.2014) the body was brought to the mortuary of the Midnapore Medical College, Midnapore, West Bengal for medico-legal autopsy.” ( A report from Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine ). (Source - https://www.ijfcm.org/article-details/1123 ) Sadly this is not the story of only one single child rather of lakhs of kids who unfortunately face this brutality every single day. Child abuse not only leaves the victim traumatised for whole life , but ...