Awareness, Attitude And Practices Towards Hospital Infection Control Among Doctors And Nurses In Obstetrics And Gynecology Department Of Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: hai is a global burden.(2) it is mandatory that every person associated with providing health care should have proper training , proper knowledge and follow proper practice in order reduce the burden of hai. (3) Materials and methods: cross sectional descriptive study done at goa medical college for 3 months (1st august 2024 to 1st november 2024) with a structured questionnaire in the department of obg. Results: in this study we had 70 participants, 42.85% belonged to age group of 20- 25 years. 70% participants were doctors. 95.71% study participants have good knowledge about hospital acquired infections. Conclusion: refresher trainings, courses, hospital standard operating procedures (sops) play important role in making every health care worker even the new recruit aware of infection control policies. However surveillance also needs to be kept on hospital acquired infections (hai) and the appropriate authority needs to be notified timely so that necessary regulations can be formulated and performed effectively.