Use of medical textiles in hospitals of Kumaun region in India

Abstract

Medical textile is one of the important sector and the growing segment of the textile industry which includes medical, hygiene and health care sector. Medical textile material are classified on the basis of applications into four categories namely implantable textiles, non-implantable textiles, extracorporeal and health care and hygienic textiles. Aim of the present study was to explore the medical textile used in the selected government, private and multispeciality hospitals in the Kumaun region. Sixty hospitals comprising of government, private and multispecialty were included in the study. Information regarding use of nonimplantable textiles, extracorporeal textiles and healthcare and hygiene textile was collected. Results of the study indicate that extracorporeal textiles were used as least compared to non-implantable textiles and health and hygiene textiles.