Abstract
Background: Hospital acquired infection is a major cause of morbidity & mortality in hospitalized patients. Handhygieneis an essential practice for infection prevention & control in hospitals(IPC). WHO has identified 5 essential‘moments’ for hand hygiene to be met during the sequence of healthcare service delivery. These include beforetouching a patient, before clean/aseptic procedure, after body fluid exposure risk, after touching a patient & aftertouching patients surroundings.Material and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted from Jan 2020 to March 2020 using the WHOobservation form for Hand Hygiene. Convenience sampling was applied to the sample frame of all Health carePersonnel at SKIMS Medical College Hospital. The sample included all the available staffs present at the timeof study.The trained research team made a keen observation of the hand hygiene practices before/after the5 moments for hand hygiene.Result: 46.2% compliance to one or other hand-hygiene practice was observed. Majority showing compliance weredressers (33.3%) followed by doctors (including Intern students) (39.8%) &nurses (26.1%).The most commonlyused mode for hand-hygiene was use of gloves (45.8%) followed by hand-wash (34%).
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