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Surgical wound infection is defined as infections that occur at or near surgical incision within30 days of operation or after 1 year if an implant is placed. This study determined factorsassociated with Surgical wound infection among patients operated in Surgical ward atKiryandongo general Hospital. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study design whichemployed both quantitative and qualitative methods in data collection. The study found outthat of the 100 patients who underwent major surgical procedures in Kiryandongo GeneralHospital, 15 (15.0%) had surgical site infection. Host factors associated with Surgical SiteInfection among participants were Age(P-value,0.001), Sex(P-value,0.032), Level of education(P-value,0.002), weight (P-value,0.027), BMI(P-value,0.006), Level of blood sugar (Pvalue,0.001), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (P-value,0.041) and temperature (P-value,0.005).The study also revealed that surgical site infection was associated with duration of hospitalstay (P-value,0.004), Cadre of the operating surgeon(P-value,0.000), Duration of theoperation(P-value,0.003), type of antibiotic used pre-operatively(P-value,0.041), type ofsutures used(P-value,0.023) and cleanliness of wounds(P-value,0.007). Surgical site infectionscontinue to be a major public health problem. The risk factors associated with Surgicalwound infection were age, male gender, level of education, height, weight, BMI, blood sugar,nutrition, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, fever, duration of hospital stay, type of incision,cadre of surgeon, duration of the procedure, type of the operation, antibiotics, type of thesutures used and type of wound.