MODULE 1: Infection Control and Waste Management - State ...

PrefaceHLFPPT is an organization committed to work with various partners pioneeringinnovations for bettering health outcomes for the poor. Merrygold Health Network is oneof such innovations in the field of Social Franchising.Merrygold Health Network, aims towards achieving an objective of improving Maternaland Child Health through increased access to low cost – high quality healthcare services,for rural and urban working poor in Uttar Pradesh. In U.P. Social Franchising Project(supported by USAID and SIFPSA), HLFPPT as an implementing agency, will beestablishing 70 fully franchised Merrygold Hospitals at district level, 700 partiallyfranchised Merrysilver Clinics at block level and will be working with more than 10,000Tarang partners (ASHAs, Chemists, Fare price shop owners, Tarang health committeemembers, Opinion leaders, Anganwadi workers, Depot holders) and AYUSHpractitioners at the village level by 2010. Two model hospitals are already established inKanpur and Agra focusing on maternal and child health care.Infection Prevention and Waste Management is a critical issue in every health caresetting. To address this concern and improve the quality of service delivery, it wasconceptualized that entire health care staff needs to be equipped with appropriateknowledge and skill.This training manual on “Infection Prevention and Waste Management in MerrygoldHealth Network - 2008” is designed to meet the above objectives. It has been pre-testedwith Merrygold L0 hospital staff at Kanpur and Agra. The inputs and feedbacks from thehospital staff and comments of review committee members from SIFPSA and ITAP, hasgiven this manual the present shape.I am sure that this manual, when used by hospitals and clinics in the Social FranchisingProject will as an enabling tool towards excellent service delivery.HLFPPT2