Prevalence of hepatitis g virus [HGV] amongs blood donors in our population

Ali types of hepatitis are quiet common in our population. Hepatitis G Virus [HGV] infection is relatively new viral infection and a little work is done on it. The objective of this study is to find out prevalence HGV infection in blood donors [Professional and Volunteer blood donors]. It is a comparative study. This study was done at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and KMDC, Karachi from 1[st] July 1995 to 30[th] June 1999. Three hundred seventy-one [371] blood donors were screened for HGV infection by Polymerase Chain Reaction [PCR] for HGV RNA. These blood donors includes 173 professionals and 198 volunteers. Three hundred seventy one [371] blood donors were screened for HGV with 05 [1.35%] positive cases. In professional donors group out 173 there were 04 [2.31%] positive for HGV where as in volunteer donor group only one [0.5%] was positive forHGV out of 198. All were male and highest positive cases for HGV were in 50-59 years age group in professional donors and 01[2.2%] in volunteer donor group. HGV infection is present in both professionals as well as volunteers donors with a ratio of 4:1. It is advisable to include HGV testing or screening mandatory for each blood bag before transfusing it to individual to minimize serious outcome of HGV infacture as people suffered from HBV, HCV and HIV

Sterile supply department of different hospitals and their sterilization testing profile

The objective of this study is to determine whether Sterile Supply Department [SSD] or Central Sterile Supply Department [CSSD] of different hospitals are performing sterilization testing profile as per international recommendation or not. Hospitals based cross sectional descriptive study. The study was conducted at different hospitals SSD or CSSD and their sterilization testing profile activities during January 1998 to June 2001. Seventy two hospitals with number of beds above 50 to less than 3000 were selected both from public and private sectors and their sterilization testing profile were recorded. 72. Number of beds above 50 and less than 3000 were included in this study. SPSS version. Number of beds less than 50 and more than 3000 were not included in this study. Total 72 hospitals were included in this study out of which 22 [30.5%] were from public sector and 50[69.5%] were from private sector. In public sector out of 22 hospitals only 01 [4.5%] was performing complete sterilization test profile at their SSD or CSSD and in private 05 [10.0%] out of 50 hospitals. There is significant difference in public and private hospitals. Sterilization testing profile P < 0.005 which is significant, yet both were not up to the mark. It seems from this study that private hospitals sterilization testing profile activity is more than twice as compare to public hospitals but we can not comprised on proper sterilization at both settings as this results in infection during procedures, government is requested to make some legislation on it