50 percent of healthcare workers in India say their workplace is unsafe: Study

50 percent of health workers in India consider their workplace unsafe. The study concludes that health workers working in state government and central government medical colleges face many problems at the workplace.

The survey was conducted by experts from Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and AIIMS, which found that people are concerned about the lack of security infrastructure in India's healthcare infrastructure. Workplace safety and security in Indian health care settings: A cross-sectional survey published in Epidemiology International calls for urgent action to improve safety frameworks for health workers. In this survey, Dr. of VMCC and Sapdarjung Hospital. Karthik Chadhar and Dr. Jugal Kishore and Dr. Richa Mishra of AIIMS, Dr. This project was organized with the joint efforts of Semanti Das, Dr. Indrashekhar Prasad and Dr. Prakalp Gupta. 1566 health workers from various medical institutions of the country participated in this survey. Who answered the questionnaire online. Emphasis was placed on various groups, especially on workplace safety and available logistics facilities. 869 women i.e. 55.5 percent and 697 men i.e. 44.5 percent participated in the survey, out of which 25 percent were health workers from New Delhi while 50 percent were resident doctors. 16 percent of medical students were doing internship. Faculty members, medical officers, nurses and other support staff participated in the survey. In the survey, 58.2 percent people said that they feel unsafe at the workplace while 78.4 percent complained of receiving threats at the workplace. 50 percent of health workers did not have adequate isolation duty rooms for long duty at night. The duty room given to him did not even have basic facilities. There was no cleanliness, lack of pest control, no ventilation, room was cramped, no AC More than 70 percent believed that the security guards were efficient. According to 62 percent, the emergency alarm was not working. According to 50 percent, the number of security guards was inadequate. He was not present at that place when required. There was not enough security in the ICU and psychiatric wards. One-third of the hospitals did not have proper boundary walls.