The Ranchi Ophthalmic Forum today organised a unique workshop on Operation Theatre Design and protocols to reduce risk of infection in OT here on Sunday, wherein doctors of Indian Medical Association and specialists from all over Jharkhand were enlightened on prevention strategies of reducing the infection in the Operation Theatre.
“The mission of this workshop is to make the ophthalmologists of Jharkhand aware about Operation Theatre planning, specification, validation and sterilization so that the infection rate in the OperationTheater get reduced to zero. The mission is to strengthen the quality of Eye Care Delivery System,” said Dr. Bharti Kashyap Secretary of Ranchi Ophthalmic Forum and Founder Director of Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital.
Since last two years, Dr Kashyap has been organising Operation Theatre design and protocol workshops in annual conferences of all India ophthalmological society. This time the Ranchi Ophthalmic Forum has invited National Speakers on OT Design & Protocol with the core strategy of Zero infection rate in Operation Theatres.
Dr Saptagirish Rambatla,Dean, Sankara Academy of Vision, Bengaluru spoke on sterilisation technique and planning, specification and validation in OT.
He also shared latest protocols for infection controlin Operation Theater.
Dr. Samina Zamindar, Registered NABH Assessor from Bengaluru gave her talks on ENGINEERING CONTROl of air conditioning in OT and calibration of equipments, she emphasized the need to improve quality and safety in patient care by implementing quality standards of NABH.
She also emphasised on core staff training and preventive measures for hospital acquired infections like use of hand hygiene and also use of personal protective equipment’s such as Cap, Mask, Apron etc. She explained to ensure proper maintenance of medical records, pre- operative requirements and patient consent taking. She also explained that patient medication management is also an important aspect.
Dr Ravi Dharamdasani- Vitreo Retina Surgeon, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital gave his talk on Evidence Based Management Of Diabetic Macular Edema.
The Chief Guest of the workshop, Speaker of Jharkhand legislative Assembly Dr. Dinesh Oraon inaugurated the workshop and said that such seminars would strengthen the quality of Eye Care Delivery System and goal of vision 2020 to reduce prevalence of blindness from 1.4% to 0.3% will be actualised.” All the speakers were felicitated by the Speaker of Jharkhand legislative Assembly.