Knowledge of Hepatitis C Infection among the medical students of Lahore general hospital Lahore

Abstract

Hepatitis means inflammation of liver. Hepatitis C is a curable disease caused by a virus that can infect the liver. The virus called hepatitis C can cause lifelong infection; fibrosis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and death. There are two phases of hepatitis c infection-acute and chronic. Acute means a new HCV infection that is less than six months old. More than six months infection is chronic infectionâ€).It is one of the leading causes of death in Pakistan. In Pakistan about 10 million people are affected with hepatitis C which is about 6 percent of the total population.