Abstract

HOSPITAL INFECTION CONTROL - A BRIEF PREVIEW FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS

Shalini Malhotra and Nirmaljit Kaur*

ABSTRACT

Patient care is provided in facilities which range from highly equipped clinics and technology advanced university hospitals to frontline units with only basic facilities. Despite progress in public health and hospital care, infections continue to develop in hospitalized patients and may also affect hospital staff. Many factors promote infection among hospitalized patients: decreased immunity among patients, the increasing variety of medical procedures and invasive techniques creating potential route of infection and the transmission of drug resistant bacteria among crowded hospital populations, where poor infection control practices may facilitate transmission. This article will discuss various infection control practices which are recommended by WHO and have a good compliance amongst healthcare workers.

Keywords: Hospital infection, Control, Health Professionals.