%0 Journal Article %T Let's speak for Patient Safety in India %A Om Prakash Kansal %J - %D 2017 %X As if the fire episode in a major hospital in 2011 in Kolkata was not enough, another fire episode was recorded in West Bengal tertiary hospital end August. Recently, a colleague undertaking infection control audit was led into an operating theatre with blood stained slippers and only face mask, when the surgery was on. The onset of hepatitis B and hepatitis C epidemics due to reuse of syringes and needles hit the regional headlines in Haryana and Srinagar in 2012 and 2015 respectively %U http://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/750