According to World Health Organization (WHO), a nosocomial infection also called "hospital acquired infection", can be defined as, "an infection acquired in the hospital by a patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection. An infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other health care facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission incomplete sentence.
This includes infections acquired in the hospital but appearing after discharge, and also occupational infections among the staff of the facility." The following article will focus on the basics of such deadly infections and its management. Epidemiology A prevalence survey conducted under the auspices of WHO in 55 hospitals of 14 countries representing 4 WHO Regions (Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia and Western Pacific) showed that an average of 8.7% of hospital…
