Abstract
Based on mono station use for >12 continuous years (since 1998) in drug resistant core endemic region, India, anti-inflammatory effect on WBC is demonstrated using a simple; economic monocular microscope that can be used out in the open—using day light/lamp. Is infinitely helpful for rural clinicians and the administrations, in developing nations. Although indispensable, a field microscope has become expensive; is in short supply; there is a crying need in the rural and the remote.
Highlights
Once upon a time the microscope was signature of learning; good health and omniscient
Whereas, using the on-foot; microscope method we find that the ground reality to be only 3 cases out of every 10 sick (i.e., 1/3rd)
Our decadal experience [3] has been that at times, the rapid detection kits/tests yield “positive” in 10 out of 10 cases which all are negated by multi-disciplinary poly teams via the field/clinical microscope
Summary
Once upon a time the microscope was signature of learning; good health and omniscient. It is one of the devices that (may) rule the roost in research; tucked away from the public eye and delicately handled (expensive). Cartridge based rapid detection kits have made so deep inroads into health care diagnostic systems that, a microscope has become a “optional”; a unaffordable referral tool specially in the rural and the remote. Our decadal experience [3] has been that at times, the rapid detection kits/tests (cartridge) yield “positive” in 10 out of 10 cases which all are negated by multi-disciplinary poly teams via the field/clinical microscope. “falls negative” reports have started arriving on the horizon [4].
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