Introduction: Health care associated infections (HCAIs) are among challenges to health care ‎facilities. Hand hygiene is well known as the most efficient, cost benefit and simplest ‎technique for decreasing these infections. In operating room, surgical procedures as invasive ‎techniques affects patients more than patients in other wards. Hence hand hygiene compliance ‎has a subs...

Background and Aim: With the introduction of long term subcutaneous administration of Deferoxamine there has been a decline in the morbidity and mortality of transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia patients. But parenteral iron chelation therapy is still a burden and a major reason for unsatisfactory compliance and places an additional psychological burden on the patients. There are some factors...