In order to provide better and safer hospital facilities for its patients and personnel, JIPMER has adopted a programme of infection control called as ‘Hospital Infection Control programme’ involving all sections of the hospital community.

The hospital infection control programme is organized and run by the Medical Superintendent (MS), JIPMER for which he constitutes the Hospital Infection Control Committee(HICC).

The HICC is advisory to the MS and makes its recommendations to the MS.

HICC COMPOSITION

Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC) of JIPMER provides a forum for multidisciplinary input and cooperation and information sharing. The members are as follows

The following are the members of Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC), JIPMER.

1. Chairperson:Dr. L.N. Dorairajan, Medical Superintendent (JIPMER)
2. Member Secretary: Dr Rakesh singh, HOD microbiology
3. Dr Anita Rustogi, Additional Medical Superintendent (JIPMER)
4. Betsy Mathai, Additional Medical Superintendent (JIPMER)
5. HODs of all clinical departments & HOD of Pathology
6. HOD, Department of Medicine
7. HOD, Department of Surgery
8. HOD, Department of ENT
9. HOD, Department of Ophthalmology
10. HOD, Department of Dermatology
11. HOD, Department of Orthopaedics
12. HOD, Department of Paediatrics
13. HOD, Department of Obs&gyn
14. HOD, Department of Anaesthesiology
15. HOD, Department of Neuromedicine
16. HOD, Department of Neurosurgery
17. HOD, Department of Plastic Surgery
18. HOD, Department of Paediatric Surgery
19. HOD, Department of Urology
20. HOD, Department of Nephrology
21. HOD, Department of CTVS
22. HOD, Department of Cardiology
23. HOD, Department of Endocrinology
24. HOD, Department of Immunology
25. HOD, Department of Surgical Oncology
26. HOD, Department of Medical Oncology
27. HOD, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology
28. HOD, Department of Medical Gastroenterology
29. HOD, Department of Pulmonary Medicine
30. Department of Psychiatry
31. Department of E.M.S.D

In-charges  

• Super speciality Block (SSB)
• Emergency Medicine Service(EMS)
• Women and Child Hospital (WCH)
• Regional Cancer Centre (RCC)
• PMRC (Physiotherapy and Medical Rehabilitation Centre)

Chief Nursing Officer

• Ms Sankareswari A

 Nursing Superintendents

• Mrs Santhi Tamilmani
• Santhi Shanmugam
• Ms Pushpalatha. K
• Neelavathy. K

Deputy Nursing Superintendents

• Mrs Jane Mary Andrew
• Mrs Devika Srikanth
• Mrs Vijayalakshmi Selvaraj
• Mrs Grandhimathi Johnpeter
• Mrs Kannagi J
• Mrs Vennila T
• Mrs Saraswathy S
• Mrs Sundari Adisegaran
• Mrs Sathiyakani T
• Mrs Jayanthi A
• Mrs Saroja L

Hospital Infection control officer (HICO) –

Dr Apurba Sankar Sastry, Additional Professor, Microbiology

Hospital Infection control nurses (HICN)

• Mrs Bhuvaneswari
• Mrs Radjalatchoumy Gobinath
• Mrs Deva Priya
• Mr Thirumavarasu G
• Mrs Lathika Gladson
• Mr Mohamed Aslam
• Mrs Vijitha V
• Mrs Mehertaz Begum
• Mrs Stella

Biomedical waste management  in-charge- Dr Vengadesaprabu, SMO

Needle stick injury  reporting in-charge- Dr Vadivelan, Professor of Medicine

CSSD(Central Sterile Supply Department) in-charge – Dr. Joseph Alexis, CMO

Linen and Landry in-charge- Dr Nair Santosh Kumar Thangappan, CMO

Central store in-charge- Dr. Krishna Kumar, Professor of Paediatric Surgery

Notifiable disease reporting- in-charge - Dr Sitansu Kar, Professor and Head, PSM

Engineer representative

Pharmacy in-charge - Dr. Jayanthi, Professor, Pharmacology

JQC Co-ordinator- Dr Sunitha, SMO

Sanitary Superintendent- Mr Thirumurugan

Dietetics  in-charge - Dr. Pratima Agarwal, CMO

Activities of HICC

The HICC will supervise the implementation of the hospital infection control programme.

Specifically, the committee shall

1. Educating JIPMER nurses, MBBS students, intern, residents and other staffs about principles of infection control and stressing individual responsibility for Infection Control.
2. Surveillance
3. Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) Surveillance- Develops a system for identifying, reporting, analysing, investigation and controlling hospital acquired infections.
4. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveillance
5. Environmental Surveillance (Air, Water, Surface- OTs/ICUs and other high risk area
6. Staff skin flora Surveillance
7. Disinfectants
8. To check for sterilization & disinfection practices in JIPMER
9. In-use test of disinfectants
10. Outbreak Investigation
11. Continuous surveillance of infections for early detection of outbreak for which, appropriate control measures are undertaken.
12. Surveillance of any community outbreak viz. Dengue, meningitis, diphtheria, meningococcemia etc. to prevent spread within the hospital amongst health care workers.
13. Monitoring Hospital Biomedical Waste Management-  In collaboration with the Biomedical Waste Management department, HICC aims at monitoring the waste segregation and disposal system
14. Auditing-HICC conducts regular audits for various aspects such as
15. Hand Hygiene  audit
16. BMW (Biomedical Waste Management) audit
17. Needle Stick Injury Reporting System- In collaboration with Dr Vadivelan, Associate Professor of Medicine and Department of Microbiology, HICC regularly monitors the Needle stick Injury reporting system which involves
18. Reporting of Needle stick Injuries
19. Testing the serum of health care workers and the source for HIV/HBV/HCV.
20. Timely administration of appropriate ART if needed
21. Staff Health Care Activities-are carried out with the objectives:
22. Vaccinating all the staffs/students (especially freshly recruited) of JIPMER with Hepatitis B vaccine
23. Regular check of Anti HBs antibody titre of all the staffs/students of JIPMER.
24. Attending all needle stick injured staffs and taking preventive measures- as described above
25. Monitoring and investigating potentially harmful infectious exposures and outbreaks among hospital staffs
26. Continuous training and ongoing education is carried out for freshly recruited staffs/students.
27. Identifying work-related infection risks and instituting appropriate preventive measures.
28. Monitors the proper use of antibiotics, develops antibiotic policies and recommend remedial measures when antibiotic resistant strains are detected.
29. Reporting of Notifiable Diseases with collaboration with department of PSM.
30. Prepare the manuals for hospital infection control as well as antimicrobial guideline and review and update hospital infection control policies and procedures from time to time.

Meets regularly not less than once a month and as often as required.