Steady improvement of infection control services in six community hospitals in Makkah following annual audits during Hajj for four consecutive years

Table 5 Results of the infection control audits for the Maternity and Children Hospital for four consecutive years

Year	2003	2004	2005	2006
Total number of beds	250	250	250	250
Number of critical care beds	24	24	24	24
Infection control committee in place	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Infection control committee constituted of representative members	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Regular infection control committee meetings	No	No	Yes	Yes
Adequate infection control committee minutes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Infection control unit	No	No	Yes	Yes
Number of infection control team staff	2	2	4	4
Nurses	2	2	2	2
Environmental inspectors	0	0	0	0
Doctors	0	0	2	2
Microbiologists	0	0	0	0
Educational activities	No	No	Yes	Yes
Surveillance system	No	No	Yes	Yes
Area audited	Percent scores
Handwashing	48	65	78	68
Environmental cleaning	33	33	62	58
Waste disposal	27	41	59	61
Handling of clean linen	20	20	40	60
Handling of soiled linen	0	10	33	57
Standard and transmission based precautions	29	32	76	89
Single use policy	33	33	67	75
Urinary catheter care	60	80	100	60
Sterile wound dressing	55	55	91	64
Food hygiene	46	62	69	75
Pests and animal control in clinical areas	33	33	33	83
Average total percent score	35	42	64	68

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