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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4317</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2022.14207</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>&#13;
	Situational Analysis of WASH Facilities in Maternity Units of a District of Central India&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R</surname><given-names>Pal</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Shukla</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Galhotra</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>U</surname><given-names>Gaikwad</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>16</day><month>01</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>7</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>&#13;
	Introduction: Pregnancy and childbirth remain to be one of the leading factors of mortality worldwide, among women of reproductive age despite the advancement of modern medicine. As per current situation of LMICs it is found only 50% deliveries are safe. The reason is minimal improvement is done for awareness and hence adherence to the given guidelines. Many of these service-providing facilities, do not have enough of trained health workers. Aims: To investigate the Infection Prevention Control practices __ampersandsignamp; policy in the maternity units in Raipur districts. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out that utilized quantitative methods to collect data from secondary and tertiary care of Raipur district from June 2019 to November 2019. Results: Training in Infection prevention control for healthcare providers and non-medical staff was reported by 66.7% __ampersandsignamp; 55.6%. Proper Personal protective equipment are worn by staff in all healthcare facilities. Syringes and gloves used once in all delivery units, Standard color coded waste bins were kept in all delivery units. During discharge women are given advice regarding dangerous sign for which they should seek treatment in all healthcare facilities and in majority oral instruction. Standard IPC was observed in six of nine HCFs. Staff vaccination was reported in eight of nine HCFs. Conclusions: There is a need to dedicate more resources to the provision of monitoring of IPC in the labor rooms to further reduce the mortality in mother and neonate. Although, training and retraining of staff towards various aspects of WASH is critical; it is of utmost importance that IPC practices __ampersandsignamp; infrastructure facilities be improved upon in all HCFs.&#13;
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</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Healthcare facilities (HCFs)</kwd><kwd/><kwd> maternity units</kwd><kwd> WASH (Water</kwd><kwd> Sanitation and Hygiene)</kwd><kwd> MMR (Maternal mortality ratio)</kwd><kwd> HCP (Health care providers.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
