On analyzing the disease pattern in India, it was found that the infections acquired at hospitals were more in India than in the other Western countries. Hospital-acquired infections in India have a rate of 1 for every 4 hospital visits and this is an alarming figure. This demands the need for strict hospital infection prevention and control. Every

Dramatic changes have occurred over the past 25 years in the disease patterns in India. In the 90s, almost 50% of the deaths were due to communicable, nutritional, maternal and neonatal diseases like tuberculosis, diarrhoea, anaemia etc. These still contribute to 1/3 of the deaths in the country. But with India's economic development, there has been a drastic