Cross sectional study on sterilization in a tertiary cardiac Hospital of Bangladesh

At any time, 1.4 million people suffer from healthcare associated infections. Reports have been published about the risk of infection caused by improper practice of sterilization. So the main objective of this research was to know the awareness, attitude, and practice among the healthcare staffs regarding the sterilization practice of a tertiary cardiac hospital in Bangladesh. 51 healthcare staffs from cardiac OT, cath lab and infection control department were the respondents of this cross sectional descriptive study & data was collected by a questionnaire survey from April 05, 2021 to May 03, 2021. The significant findings of this research are: 23.5% of the staffs had needle injury while working throughout their career. Among them only 3.9% reported to their authority and took treatment for that while the rest overlooked the matter completely and did not take the necessary precaution steps. Another significant finding is 80.4% of the staffs have been vaccinated against Hepatitis B, still 19.60% haven’t take vaccine. This type of study should be done regularly by the hospital authority to find out the lacking of the hospital.