Study on Hospital Surface Disinfection: Need, Gaps, Challenges and Management for "Basin and Mop" Method

Introduction: Patient surrounding might work as a source of infection to patient as well as health care workers. Routine cleaning of the patient environment is critical to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections. It is therefore very important to disinfect the patient surroundings regularly using proper technique.

Objective: Mostly the disinfection procedure varies from hospital to hospital, but there are few points that need to be taken care of by the hospital policy makers.

Methodology: In hospitals where the disinfection work is many times handed over to the hospital attendants who are not oriented to the infection control practices, there is increased risk of errors . There are some common errors that need to be recognized and taken care of in the hospital settings. A special attention need to be placed on the infection control perspective by the person doing disinfection.

Result: An effort has been taken to highlight the management role, common errors and mop handling technique during chemical disinfection of hospital surfaces using triple basin method.

Conclusion: The present article is a reality oriented approach to highlight the challenges observed during the hospital surface disinfection, the reasons related to that, and its management. The regular and systematic review of the procedure related challenges will ensure the better disinfection of the hospital surfaces.