Infection prevention and control in Mulago National Referral Hospital after the third wave of Covid-19

Abstract

Background On the global scale out of every 100 patients in acute care hospitals seven patients in high income countries and 15 patients in law and middle-income countries will acquire at least one nosocomial infection due to inadequate IPC self -assessment tool to assess the IPC compliance i.e., adherence to the WHO guidelines, training education, availability of materials and personnel for IPC at Mulago National Referral hospital. Methods Repeated administration of the self-assessment tool was done in August 2022 based on the eight IPC core components. The IPC focal person at Mulago NRH completed the WHO IPCAF tool. Then sampling from the different hospital wards to ascertain the facts was done by interviewing the departmental in charges alongside actual observation. Results The overall IPC compliance score at Mulago NRH was 472.5/800 ( 59.1%) implying an intermediate level of compliance