PREVALENCE OF HBsAg POSITIVITY IN HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONORS AT BLOOD BANK OF GMC SRINAGAR KASHMIR

PREVALENCE OF HBsAg POSITIVITY IN HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONORS AT BLOOD BANK OF GMC SRINAGAR KASHMIR

Ubaida jan ,1Aabid Ahmad Khanday2, DR HK Sidhu3

1.      PG student at Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, India.

2.      Teaching assistant at, Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab

3.      DR HK sidhu head of department school of paramedical sciences Desh Bhagat University Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab

INTRODUCTION

Hepatitis B infection is one of the major public health problems globally and the 10th leading cause of death in world worldwide more than 2 billion of the population has reported evidence of past or recent HBV infection and there are more than 350 million chronic carriers of this infection in India, serum hepatitis prevalence among the general population ranges from 2 to 8% of the population which places India with 50 million of cases is also the second largest global pool of chronic HBV infection   Among healthcare serum positive is 2-4 times higher than of the general population.

Occupational exposure of HBV is well recognized risk for health care workers and voluntary Blood Donor throughout the world, millions of healthcare professionals work in health institutions and it is estimated that 600,000 to 800,000 traumatic injuries occurs while handling in   hospital & related works in a year , of which approximately 50% are not registered cases.

Hepatitis B is an infection illness caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV) which infection the liver of hominoidea species including humans, and causes an inflammation called hepatitis originally known as “serum hepatitis’’ the disease has caused epidemics in parts of Asia and Africa , and endemic in china.

The clinical course of acute hepatitis B is indistinguishable from that of acute viral hepatitis caused by other agents. The incubation period ranges from 60 to 150 days (average 90 days clinical signs and symptoms