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Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) is an important component of hospital infection control programmes; surveillance allows monitoring of the frequency and type of HCAIs, detects outbreaks, evaluates compliance with infection control guidelines and provides data for policy development. 1 Studies have reported up to a 30% reduction in incidence of HCAI through effective infection control programmes. 2 To attain sustained success, infection control measures must be coupled with antimicrobial stewardship. In most developing countries surveillance data pertaining to device-associated (DA)-HCAI are either limited or insufficient to estimate the exact burden.

An active, targeted surveillance was launched in medical and surgical intensive care units (ICUs), with capacity of 17 and seven beds respectively, in a state-of-the-art tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from August 2015 through …