Al Khalidi Medical Center has formulated Infection Control Commettee (ICC) in 1998.

ICC has executive authority internally , which gives it the right to make the appropriate decisions , along with its delegated duties and ,  therefore ,  the decisions taken are obligatory for KMC.

Through the past four years, the committee wrote and implemented an Infection Control Manual, which is distributed to all hospital wards, departments and units. Infection Control Manual is being updated with the latest information and revised on regular basis. 
 ICC meets regularly once a week, unless there is urgency for immediate meeting. ICC is keen to maintain and promote clean and healthy internal environment to prevent infections and outbreaks. KMC nosocomial infection rate is around 1%. This figure is within the acceptable universal level for gross infection rate in hospitals .   We offer hepatitis B vaccination to KMC employees free of charge, as well as, the routine tests for the employees in certain settings of the hospital.

KMC ICC consists of infectious disease specialists :

The committee main duties are:

• To differentiate between nosocomial and community acquired infections.
•  To set policies and procedures, consistent with the CDC recommendations, related to isolation precautions, antimicrobial usage, sterilization techniques and hospital disinfection.
•  To spread the information among the hospital staff through circulars, lectures, rounds.
• To establish activities related to infection control , including reports, case evaluation , recording infections among patients , as well as employees.
• To detect nosocomial infections and to do monthly, quarterly and annual reports about infection status organisms.
• To minimize potential risk of infections in KMC or infections coming to the hospital.