PREVALENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS IN OPERATING ROOM AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN SPHMMC ADDIS ABABA.

Abstract

Summary Background: Occupational health and safety is one of the most important aspects of human concept. Workers are exposed to a wide range of occupational health and safety hazards. Each year, work related injuries and disease kill an estimated two million people worldwide, which is greater than the global annual number of death, from malaria. Objective: - The main objective of this study was prevalence of occupational hazards in operating room among health care workers in SPHMMC. Methods: - Hospital based cross-sectional study was used for health care professional in operation room staff in St Paul's Hospital millennium medical college, different proportional sampling method was used to select the required sample size use. The sample size that studied was contains 170 subjective data collect by using self-administer questionnaire and observational methods for mixed data. The collected data was checked and coded, processed and analyzed excel. Result; among the respondents, most of them were acquire different hazards related to their operating room health care workers. 165(96.9%) of them had been inject with needle stick, from these 88(51.8%) were from major OR, 4(2.4%) were from minor OR, 20(11.8%) were from CS, 38(22.4%) were from ENT OR, 15(8.8%) were from Transplant operating OR. Conclusion: From the result of study conducted in SPHMMC health care workers in January, 2023, we can conclude that most of the operating room health care workers of SPHMMC were acquire psychological hazards in higher proportion than physical hazard and chemical hazards. Recommendation:- Based on our finding the followings recommendation for operating room among health care workers.  All necessary personal protective devices should be fulfilled in the hospital for all health care workers. Keywords: - prevalence, occupation, hazard, chemical, physical and biological.