Serve Our Community Health is a Dow Medical College Student run organization established in 2014. Civil Hospital, Karachi; one of the most important public hospitals of Karachi. This is seen to be deprived of proper infrastructure, sanitation, waste management and proper cleanliness. Owing to the current hygiene conditions S.O.C.H. along with National health Forum takes an initiative to spread public awareness regarding infection control. This project focuses on hospital’s uplifting and construction projects. SOCH School Volunteer program twice a year to recruit new volunteers to work. National Health Forum have teamed up with Serve Our Community Health Association, which is run by students of Dow Medical College. Goal is to have clean environment and become health and add quality of life. With cleanliness, patients will benefit and get less infection. This project will hire janitors who will look after the cleanliness of those units which will come under this program. We will only be undertaking 8 units, and 3 High Dependency Units. It will solve the program of recurrent infection and decrease infections which are contagious. We also teach patient hand washing techniques and how to prevent infection and also teach attendants of those patient How to take care of infectious patients. Long-Term Impact: The long-term help is the length of stay of patients in the hospital will be less and above all a healthy environment to be well and to do well. These actions will help decrease the amount of dollars spent on patients also for treatments. Clean places will promote better health and prevention is our motto.

SOCH has mainly at present working with Koohi Goth Hospital and their US arm is National Health Forum, Inc. USA. www.nhfus.org