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Globally, 4016 patients per every 100,000 patients undergo surgery in an year. One in every 25 individuals will undergo some form of surgical procedure. 1 Surgical site infections (SSI) are the major postoperative complications. Surgical site infections are heavily studied and analysed form of hospital acquired infections. In developing countries as well as few developed countries, SSI are so common that they occur in about one-third of the surgeries.2 Surgical site infection (SSI) is the commonest form of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI), accounting for 18.4% of HAI.3