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March 22-23, 2017 | Rome, Italy
2nd World Congress on
Public Health & Nutrition
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Community Med Health Educ 2017
ISSN: 2161-0711, JCMHE an open access journal Public Health 2017
March 22-23, 2017
MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES FROM THE REGIONAL
HOSPITALOF KORCA, ALBANIA
Zhinzela Qylia
aFan S Noli University, Albania
Statement of the problem: Nosocomial infections are a major world public health problem. Infectious agents transmitted during
healthcare derive primarily from human sources but inanimate environmental sources also are implicated in transmission. The
purpose of this study is to estimate the microbiological pollution levels of samples taken from the environments of the Regional
Hospital of Korca, Albania.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: This is a study of the potential bacterial reservoirs in the Hospital of Korca. A total of
1701 samples were taken from different wards of the hospital. 316 samples were taken from the sterilized materials, 184 samples
from the laundries, 238 samples from the healthcare workers, 640 samples from the surfaces, 135 samples from air and 188 samples
from the systems of intubation-aspiration-oxygen. The samples were cultured in Blood and Sabouraud agar. The microbial
identification was done with microscopy after Gram coloration, colonies morphology and biochemistry.
Findings: Resulted positive for microbial contamination 30 (9.5%) of samples taken from the sterilized materials, 56 (30.4%) of
samples from the laundries, 79 (33.2%) of samples from healthcare workers, 174 (27.2%) of samples from the surfaces, 8(5.9%) of
samples from air and 46 (24.5%) of samples from the systems of intubation-aspiration-oxygen.
Conclusion & Significance: Samples with higher percentage of microbial contamination resulted from the samples of health care
workers.
Recommendations: Health care workers must be sensitized on public health risk of nosocomial infections associated with their
contaminated hands, clothing and nose-throat.
Biography
Zhinzela Qyli has completed the Faculty of Medicine and specialization in Microbiology in the University of Tirana, Albania. She is lecture in the Nursing Department
of Fan S Noli University, Korca and is following the doctoral school in the Faculty of Technical Medical Sciences, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.
Zhinzela Qyli, J Community Med Health Educ 2017, 7:1 (Suppl)