The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms is a major public health concern, particularly in hospitals and other health care settings. Hospitals play a major role for the emergence and spreading of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Antibiotic used in the hospital are not fully metabolized by patients and released in to the hospital waste water indicates a selection pressure on bacteria for the development of resistance. This study was carried out to investigate the presence of antibiotic resistance bacteria in hospital waste water collected from a government hospitals. Antibiotic susceptibility of the bacterial isolates was assayed according to the Kirby - Bauer disc diffusion method(NCLS,2004). The outcome of the study indicated that among the all tested antibiotics a relatively high level of resistance,55.5-66.6% for amoxicillin and33.3-87.5% for faropenem were observed.
