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Background: Medical interns are vulnerable to occupational accidents with body fluids, droplets, needles and other cutting devices because of their inexperience and lack of training despite their desire to do a lot. There is some information in our country regarding the frequency of such accidents in medical interns. 
Methods: Cross-sectional study of all the medical-interns working around the country healthcare centers during 2007 Jan and 2008 Dec. A randomized sample of 631 was selected to this population as guided survey was applied. 
Results: Of all the participants, 99% had been working at least 1-year rotation as medical interns. The sample included the community health camp by interns also. Only 83% of interns surveyed had received anti-HBV vaccination.54% of them admitted, They had suffered at least one occupational accident with patients exposure: 12% of these admitted had suffered occupational-accidents with needles, 48% did nothing after accidents because they didnt know what should be done. Of total sample, 93% of the interns knew little or nothing about the universal precautions. Conclusion: A very high proportional of medical interns suffers risky occupational accidents including tuberculosis, eye infections etc.during their medical practices. Most of there, young doctors do nothing to prevent themselves from occupational transmitted diseases, mainly due to lack of knowledge. Their knowledge regarding universal precaution is poor and their comments is that there should be training of safety management to all the medical professionals to prevent the chance of further  infectious diseases which is very urgent for developing country like  Nepal.

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