At the Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre of AIIMS it has been found that the blood stream infection (BSI) rate is 7.5/1000, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is 20.3/1000 ventilator days and surgical site infection (SSI)is 2.5/1000 catheter days, Dr Sanjeev Lalwani, central public information officer with the hospital said.
A microbiologist with AIIMS said that there should be no infection at all as it is a cause of morbidity and mortality for patients.
"Sadly we do not have set standards to declare a percentage of infection rate as bad or good. But for BSI we follow the central line -- associated blood-stream infection rate which is zero.
"So 7.5/1000 catheter days BSI means infection rate is on the higher side and hospital should exercise caution."
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