Cosmetic skin piercing is the perforation of the skin and the underlying tissue usually with the aim of inserting jewellery. Piercing ears, navels, tongues, eyebrows, nostrils are popular ways of body piercing among the young crowd.
Body piercing is an activity that can affect public health when operators use unsafe techniques. There are significant health hazards posed by contact with blood and body fluids such as the risk of transmitting blood borne viral diseases such as Hepatitis B, C and HIV. Operators and clients in the skin piercing industry risk contracting a range of infections.
We, at Manipal Cure and Care, understand how to protect our guests from the risk of infection. In addition, we reduce harm from skin piercing, and promote healthy skin piercing practices. Infection control procedures followed by us regulates this risk and prevents transmission of diseases.
We minimize the risk of transmitting blood borne and other infections by the use of standard precautions during skin piercing procedures.
An infection control frame work at our center will include the following fundamental elements: |
