The Hospital Surveillance &Infection Control Program supervised by an Infection Control Committee was started in 2011. An Infection Control Team (ICT) comprising of an Infection Control Officer (ICO) and two trained Infection Control Nurses (ICN) monitors and documents all events related to the control of Nosocomial Infections (NI) such as proper hand hygiene, use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), proper methods for insertion and maintenance of intravenous lines and catheters, proper cleaning and maintenance of the hospital environment, active and passive surveillance for nosocomial infections such as Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP), Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CA UTI), Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (SSTI) and Catheter Associated Blood Stream Infections (CA BSI). Surveillance of kitchen staff and food handlers and Central Sterilization Supply Department (CSSD) and Laundry is also carried out.Active surveillance is in the form of daily rounds by the ICN with active intervention and the calculation of various parameters ranging from hand hygiene compliance rates to Indicator nosocomial infection rates, such as, ICU VAP rates, CA UTI rates, etc.A yearly antibiogram is published and circulated to the various departments, thus keeping track of changing susceptibility patterns of organisms with regard to type of infection and wards.