Every year 3 million cases of pesticide poisoning are estimated by World Health Organization. Acute poisoning is common and urgent medical problem is in both developed and developing countries all over the world. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship of age, sex and marital status of victims in case of death due to Organophosphorus poisoning. This retrospective study was conducted in Rajshahi medical college during from January 2012 - December 2014. A total of 1290 medico legal post mortems were performed during this study period, out of which 359(27.83%) were deaths due to Organophosphorus poisoning. The majority of the victim were females 232(64.62%) while males were 127(35.37%) in number. According to age group the maximum incidence of poisoning was found in 21- 30 years 41.50% gradually decreases and minimum were observed in age group ≥61 years. Acute poisoning was observed more in married group (77.56%) than unmarried group (22.44%). Pattern of various types of poison taken varies from country to country even society to society. So we should take preventive methods that may reduce mortality and morbidity due to Organophosphorus poisoning.

Awareness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has been increasing over time. The aim of this study was to determine the Patterns of CAM use, perceived benefits and adverse effects of CAM by the users, as well as the reasons for use. Also to estimate the monthly cost of CAM to users in the study area.A cross-sectional study design was used, and structured questionnaire was the means of data collection. Purposive sampling was done. Three hundred respondents (53.7% males and 46.3% females) participated in this study with 295 (98.3%) CAM-users and 5(1.7%) non-CAM users. The relationship between CAM use and all the socio-demographic characteristics were however not significant (p>0.05). The most popularly known CAM method was Traditional herbal medicine (95.3%) followed by vitamins (91.0%) and spiritual healing (71.7%). Majority of the respondents believed CAM products should be encouraged (91.7%), combined CAM with prescribed medications (55.5%) and did not inform their doctors of their CAM use (50.3%). About 34% believed that CAM products had side effects, while 21.4% reported experiencing these side effects. The surveyed respondents spent 5,000 -30,000 naira on CAM monthly. There is dire need for adequate regulatory policies on the formulation, distribution and use of CAM products as its use is prevalent.