Prevalence of hepatitis infection among health care providers

Abstract

A hospital-acquired infection is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility. This infection can be acquired in hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation facility, outpatient clinic, or other clinical settings. Infection is spread to the susceptible patient in the clinical setting by various means. Health care staff can spread infection, in addition to contaminated equipment, bed linens, or air droplets and insufÏcient infection control and prevention. Hospitalacquired infections can have several consequences including the longer hospital stays, increased costs, lost wages and death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of hospital infections in developing and least developed countries is 2-20 times higher than in developed countries. Recent health statistics claim that HAIs occur in 0.01–0.02% of all hospital admissions with the highest percentage (0.05%) in tertiary hospitals in the capital city Ulaanbaatar, but this is very likely to be an underestimate (3). Still, we have a limited research finding and result determination of risk factors, cause of HAI and quality of organization of infection control. We studied the prevalence of HAI among health care workers based on registered case and statistics. The prevalence of HAI among health care provider was distributed 12.5 percent, with HCV infection at 4.4 percent, C virus infection by 7.5 percent, B, C and B and D infection by 0.3 percent, and B and C and D infection by 0.07 percent.