The world took an unforeseen turn in March 2020. Social or rather physical distancing became the formula for survival for the social animal, and handwashing was considered one of the primary precautions to survive the pandemic.
As the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is reported to transmit rapidly through the infectious respiratory droplets, the efficient management of the battle ground in this fight, i.e hospital space, becomes critical in surviving the pandemic. Besides COVID-19, hospitals are also at a high risk for the transmission of other diseases, as this is the site where a patient’s illness interacts with the hospital staff and visitors.
This story looks at the infrastructure and implementation of hand hygiene, in a Government general hospital (associated with a medical college) located in one of the most arid and COVID-19 affected regions of Andhra Pradesh.
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