Research submitted by Indian doctors states that mobile phones accumulate bacteria and can prove dangerous for the healthcare sector, according to an article on the DNA website.
After the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) received a research paper from doctors who built colonies of bacteria off their own mobile phones, the group urged all the hospitals to strictly follow guidelines on healthcare-acquired infections.
Buttoned phones gather more accumulation and cannot be completely cleaned of the bacterial load.
“The type of cover of the mobile phone does not have much difference on bacterial accumulation. Weekly cleaning of the mobile phone with alcohol swabs is not at all sufficient. Daily cleaning with alcohol could be a reasonable protocol, but possibility of damage to the phone cannot be ruled out,” said Dr. Achint Garg, author of the study.
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