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Abstract
Summary
Infection control is the protection of patients and health care workers by the prevention of infection in the health care setting in a cost-efficient manner. The purpose of infection control is to reduce the risk of health care worker exposure and infection and nosocomial hospital-acquired infections, which can complicate existing diseases or injuries (René, 2011).
Accountability for infection prevention and control always remains with health care services. Well-constructed cleaning specifications assist in ensuring that external providers play their part in minimizing the risk of infection in health care settings. Cleaning service providers must comply with health service infection prevention and control practices and guidelines and demonstrate how infection control procedures are used in their practices. As is the case for other quality improvement processes, the infection prevention and control processes of health care services and cleaning service providers should be coordinated and conducted in parallel to ensure complete infection prevention and control coverage. (Department of Health and Ageing, 2004).
Hospital should measure adherence to infection measures and provide personal with information on their performance ongoing training combined with monitoring environmental cleaning practices and providing feedback to staff has been shown to improve the effectiveness of cleaning (Arias et al.,2010).
This study was conducted in order to assess hospital cleaners knowledge regarding infection control and its effect on their performance.