ICPPB is an organisation working on infection control stressing the issues like safe disposal of infectious waste, assessment and reduction of bacterial load in operation treaters and intensive care units, formulation of antibiotic policy and hand washing after touching each patient.

Eminent microbiologists and clinicians of our country and renowned physicians of USA presented papers and delivered lectures on various burning aspect of infection control. They emphasised that physicians, nurses and other health professionals have tremendous role in preventing hospital-acquired infection (nosocomial infection) by creating a safe environment by proper hospital waste management and adopting an antibiotic policy. Physicians and health workers from different areas of the country took part in the seminar.

Topics discussed in the three-day seminar were - Nosocomial infection - its prevention and management; Hand hygiene; Common culture isolates and their drug resistance pattern, sepsis update; Prevention of surgical site infection; MRSA infection; Positive blood culture; Infective endocarditis; Management of hospital waste; Updated information regarding antibiotic policy; Management of infection in microbiological laboratory were revealed.

Monowara Hospital was rewarded for its great achievement in infection control while participants were accorded certificate of participation.