@article{Gupta_Kaushik_Kapoor_Sabarwal_Bobdey_Singh_2021, title={Disinfection by 1% sodium hypochlorite through cold fogging: an innovative appropriate technology against COVID-19 in public health}, volume={10}, url={https://www.msjonline.org/index.php/ijrms/article/view/10292}, DOI={10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20215045}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong> SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped virus with a fragile outer lipid envelope that makes it more susceptible to disinfectants compared to non-enveloped viruses. In this article, dispensation through cold Fogger was innovated as a measure against aerosol-based transmission of COVID-19 in large, enclosed spaces like hospitals, nursing homes, isolation centers and quarantine facilities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Ecological exploratory study, to ours effectiveness of 1% sodium hypochlorite through cold fogging against SARS COV-2 technology.<strong> </strong>Study setting included medical college in Western Maharashtra and the selected COVID-19 hospitals. The data was collated in MS excel and analysed using IBM SPSS version 23.0.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Average of 2.9 % HCWs got infected in hospitals where this innovation was used to disinfect, as compared to infections rates of 21.5% and 14.7% in other premier health institutes. There was strong negative correlation between percentage of health care infected and liters of sodium hypochlorite used with R<sup>2</sup>=0.56. Also, on applying Spearman correlation coefficient there was good negative correlation (-0.8).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This appropriate technology has shown significant reduction in infection, with antecedent benefit of decreased morbidity and mortality of precious trained manpower. It gives much better dis-infection at 07 times less the cost and can be conveniently used for dis-infection against COVID-19 at the very periphery of primary health care delivery done at Sub-centres and PHCs.</p>}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences}, author={Gupta, Arun and Kaushik, S. K. and Kapoor, Suraj and Sabarwal, Gurmesh S. and Bobdey, Saurabh and Singh, Kamalpreet}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={141–146} }