Greener Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health

Patients and caregivers’ compliance with hand hygiene measures in a tertiary health facility in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Dimoko AA ¹; Ijah RF ^2*; Elenwo SN ³

¹ Lead Author, Consultant General Surgeon, Department of Surgery, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

^*2 Senior Registrar and General Surgeon, Department of Surgery, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

³ Senior Lecturer and Consultant General Surgeon, Department of Surgery, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

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