Emerging infectious diseases represent an ongoing threat to the health and livelihoods of people globally. Over the past decade, numerous infectious diseases have shown up in the United States including SARS in 2003, H1N1 or 'swine flu’ in 2009, and now, the Ebola virus. Isolation of a patient is essentially an escalation of the core healthcare process. Best practice demands that isolation rooms be provided where care for the underlying medical condition is optimal. As uncontroversial as infection control may seem, the infrastructure required (such as washbasins and isolation rooms) is often lacking in hospitals. And if isolation rooms are available, proper maintenance of pressure gradients is an issue. In normal circumstances no purpose is served by routine cleaning of ventilation ducts. During replacement, dust is shed from old filters. All extract grilles and some types of supply grilles accumulate dust. These represent an infection risk. The dust reflects the air-borne flora at the time of deposition with organism death taking place at a rate determined by microbial, environmental and other factors. It is vital that regular monitoring and maintenance of the ventilation system is in place. The physical design of a hospital is an essential component of its infection control measures to minimize the risk of transmission of any infectious disease. Today, with a more progressive outlook, it is the fundamental requirement to adopt a holistic view of the design and management of hospitals. This document will not only help in making strategy for planning or renovating an isolation room and also helps in cleaning or maintenance of ventilation. How to cite this article Shweta K, Gupta SK, Chandrashekhar R, Kant S. Planning and Designing an Isolation Facility in Hospitals: Need of the Hour. Int J Res Foundation Hosp Healthc Adm 2015;3(1):48-56.

The present investigation was carried out in four districts of Chhattisgarh state to assess the performance of Maitris as perceived by Veterinarians of the State in delivering the veterinary services in the rural areas. The study reveals that more than 70% of veterinary officers were highly satisfied with the respondents in respect to their AI target achievement, performance in conducting AI, breed identification, deworming of animals, providing livestock services in the remote areas, census work, providing first aid, report return and record maintenance. Whereas, most of the veterinarians perceive the performance of the Maitris in the areas of assisting gynaecological disorder, pregnancy diagnosis, assisting in Mobile Veterinary Works, awareness creation in the village for different government programmes are from average to poor K e y w o r d s

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: An experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2015-16 at Saidapur Farm, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad to know the effect of foliar fertilization on growth, yield and yield attributes of garlic. The plants grown with application of recommended dose of fertilizer along with foliar spray of one per cent 19:19:19 at 60 days after sowing (T 11 ) recorded significantly higher plant height (51.99 cm,), number of leaves per plant (6.00), leaf length (41.05 cm), leaf breadth (1.03 cm), neck diameter (4.76 mm ), bulb weight (15.60 g), bulb diameter (33.23 mm), number of cloves per bulb (25.93), clove length (1.98 cm) , hundred clove weight (108.49 g), yield(6.98 t/ha) and B:C ratio(2.84) . While, the poor growth, yield and yield attributes were observed in without any foliar spray treatment i.e., application of recommended dose of fertilizer only.