Patient safety and care is the core of quality healthcare. To reinforce this belief and motto, Wockhardt Hospitals, a reputed chain of tertiary care super specialty hospitals in India, organized a three day awareness drive focusing on infection prevention and control for all its medical, paramedical and support staff across hospitals present at South Mumbai, Mira Road, Vashi, Nashik, Nagpur, Surat, Rajkot.

This initiative focused on reinforcing Infection prevention and control protocols and practices. The exercise was conducted in an innovative and interactive manner having quiz sessions, posters competitions, simulation sessions which were customised to the topics of infection control.

The overall objective was to draw all Wockhardt Hospitals associates’ attention towards need for patient safety and the group’s strict defined protocols in this area to ensure that Life Wins always at Wockhardt hospital.

Commenting on the initiative, Zahabiya Khorakiwala, Managing Director, Wockhardt Hospitals, said, “We follow very stringent protocols to ensure supreme services in patient safety and care. Through this initiative, we want reiterate to our staff, patients and visitors the mechanisms and processes that the hospital follows to ensure that every facility is patient friendly and completely safe for the patients.”

Dr. Clive Fernandes, group clinical director, Wockhardt Group Hospitals, said, “This drive has been organized across the group to ensure that every associate understands and practices patient safety as defined in our protocols. Safe infection control practices is of utmost importance to us. The whole effort is to ensure that at Wockhardt Hospitals “No patient suffers from an infection that they did not have when they arrived” ensuring Life Wins Always.

The Wockhardt Group hospitals follow evidence based practises and protocols for all infection control activities and adhere to international infection control standards

Wockhardt Hospitals is a chain of tertiary care super-specialty hospitals with facilities in, Nagpur, Nasik, Vashi (Navi Mumbai), Rajkot, Surat, South Mumbai & North Mumbai. All Wockhardt Hospitals have state-of-the-art infrastructure and globally benchmarked processes to enable Patient Care & Safety. Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd. is one of the few professionally managed corporate hospital groups in the country which put patient safety and quality of care at the core of its strategy. The overall 1500 bedded hospitals have over 1000 Standard Operating Procedures or Protocols for both clinical and non-clinical processes in place. The guiding philosophy is to serve and enrich the Quality of Life of patients.