Risk Assessment Grid, Priority Gaps and Action Plans of Infection Prevention and Control at Benghazi Medical Center.

Abstract

Identifying what could cause injury or illness and taking actions to eliminate the hazard and if it’s possible to control the risk is the main job of infection prevention and control team. This research attempts to investigate the risk and the priority gaps and control at Benghazi Medical Center. The methodology used here is using a check list from WHO organization and go through each point in the list while visiting different department at Benghazi Medical Center, aiming to evaluate and assist each department gaps in infection prevention and control (IPC) for different aspects like the infection prevention program, guidelines, education and training, surveillance, monitoring/ audit of IPC practices and feedback, workload staffing and bed occupancy, built environment, material and equipment for IPC at the facility level. Each of the previous points will be dealt with to highlight its results. After going through the research and the checklist the results found that the overall median score of IPC level is 225 which makes the hospital fall under the category of basic. To conclude, this research, has found gaps in monitoring hand hygiene, intravascular catheter insertion and/or care, wound dressing change, transmission-based precautions and isolation to prevent the spread of multidrug resistant organisms, consumption and usage of alcoholic-based handrub or soap. Consumption and usage of antimicrobial agents. significant of the study. There are more than 100 million patients every year around the world infected with health care associated infection which is due to their long stay in health care facilities that leads to a high morbidity and mortality rate.