CSSD Services

1. CSSD (Central Sterile Services Department) is considered a centrally significant place with regard to infection control in the hospital. This unit is the place where, linen, dressing packet, every instrument gets autoclaved. CSSD issues dressing items for all wards in our hospital.

2. The CSSD caters to the need of dressing items such as gauze swabs, gauze towel, cotton packets in our hospital to 42 units.

3. Central Sterile Supplies Department receives the dressing packets on selected dates of the week from the wards and distributes them after the sterilization process to wards and units.

4. They issue the items on all the days of the week with the request book signed by a nursing Officer.

5. CSSD shall prepare gauze packets and cotton packets on a monthly basis

6. The autoclave machines in the CSSD will be validated once in six months by doing the spore test.

7. CSSD will be subject to close supervision of the Special Grade Nursing Officers and Infection

Control Nursing Officers.

8. CSSD will be periodically reviewed by the Visiting Consultant Microbiologist and Medical Officer -

Public Health.