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Senior doctors said they always urged students to meet counsellors at voluntary testing centres, but the reportage is not huge. “There is an urgent need for establishing a statewise surveillance system for monitoring of occupational exposure to achieve infection control among health care workers. These exposures can result in risk of infection and can cause serious mental ill-health,” said Dr P Praveen Kumar, a junior resident (general medicine) and author of the study. At least 68.35% said they were exposed to unsafe blood at least once in the last one year, taking the average incidence of occupation exposure to 1.85 per year. It was found 50% of the exposure was caused by mucocutaneous splash of blood and bodily fluids and 30% of times it was needle pricks.What made it worse was many doctors didn’t follow standard precautions..