In an environment of limited resources and where medical practice is biased towards intervention rather than prevention, it is not surprising that basic infection control (IC) programmes are often lacking in our country. .Multiple factors like lack or shortage of basic requirement (e.g gloves, hand washing facility) negligible administrative support, financial constraints, overcrowding, understaffing, low levels of staff preparedness and knowledge of key factors contribute to poor IC practices. There is wide gap between knowing and doing. The need to follow basic infection control measures have been taken for granted.
Today we are intervention driven rather than outcome based. Hence we are all the time running against time to treat and have no time to review our cases that has gone past the particular location. As there is no regulatory authority nor a notifying agency for HAI there is…
