Healthy human beings make a healthy society. Illness creates dependency. The sick need medical treatment, nursing care and shelter. With the advent of the modern society the institution developed to cater to the needs of the sick was the hospital.

A hospital in STEADMAN’s medical dictionary is defined as “an institution for the care, cure and treatment of the sick and sounded, for the study of diseases and for the training of doctors and nurses”. In hospitals the endeavor is to provide the best possible facilities to the patients within the hospital resources.

Hospitals have an inevitable part of the present social system. Hospitals as such are said to be service organizations, which render service to mankind through dedicated professionals and highly motivated medical services.