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infection prevention control ipc imperative towards patient safety health infection prevention control assessment framework ipcaf developed provides baseline assessment acute healthcare facility level study aimed assess existing ipc level selected public sector hospital facilities punjab explore strengths deficits october april 2023 11 public sector hospitals including tertiary secondary primary level care selected data collected using ipcaf assessment tool comprising eight sections categorised four distinct ipc levels inadequate basic intermediate advanced key performance metrics summarised within hospitals overall median ipcaf score public sector hospitals 5325 iqr 2925690 800 four hospitals scored advanced well basic ipc level three hospitals fell intermediate level hospitals ipc guidelines well ipc programme environments materials equipments although 90 secondary care hospitals ipc education training 2 5 40 tertiary care 2 3 67 primary care hospitals ipc additional experts training 1 5 tertiary care hospitals 20 recorded agreed ratio healthcare workers patients 2 5 40 hospitals lack staffing need assessment overall sampled public sector tertiary secondary primary hospitals demonstrated satisfactory ipc level challenging areas healthcareassociated infection surveillance monitoringaudit staffing bed occupancy overall three categories hospitals periodic training assessment facilitate improvement public sector systems