Mobile phones have become indispensable devices and restriction is not a practical solution, but a study of the flora harboured by mobile phones of healthcare personnel has shown that it is a deadly source of bacterial contamination.
The study was conducted by MGM Medical College and New Bombay Hospital, Navi Mumbai. The study was displayed at the 10th National Conference of the Hospital Infection Society, India, held in Pune recently. According to researcher Dr Chitra Pai, professor from MGM College, "Mobile phones are seldom cleaned by healthcare workers in spite of its use on a continuous basis. Hence, we decided to screen mobile phones of various categories of healthcare personnel for the presence of microbes." The research team took swabs from the phones of 120 healthcare personnel, including doctors, lab technicians, nurses and ward boys. It was found that 82 per cent of the mobile phones showed bacterial contamination. ....See all stories on this topic
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