The Max Super Speciality Hospital organised an ‘Infection Prevention week' from February 9 to 14 to create awareness amongst patients and healthcare professionals about hospital-acquired infections. The hospital organised many educative games and competitions such as poster-making, slogan-writing and quiz to educate the hospital staff about prevention and control of common infections.
More than 100 hospital professionals participated in various programmes. lectures on hand hygiene, infection prevention and control, surgical site infection, antibiotics, ventilator associated pneumonia and central line related bloodstream infection was delivered for the participants. Seminars were also organised for patients to educate them about the importance of judicial use of antibiotics to prevent antibiotic resistance.