 Hello everyone, myself Dr. Mangesh Borkar, I am practicing as a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manipal Hospital Karadi Pune. Today I am going to talk about hepatitis on occasion of World Hepatitis Day. So first of all we should know what is hepatitis? Hepatitis is nothing but inflammation of the liver and canal cells. Then we should know what are the causes of hepatitis? Causes of hepatitis are either due to alcohol, drugs or viruses. So talking about alcoholic hepatitis, the first and foremost step for management of alcoholic hepatitis is the abstinence from alcohol and further management lies upon conservative treatment. Then about drug induced hepatitis, identifying the culprit drug and its discontinuation forms the basis of management. Now the most important topic today we are going to discuss about is viral hepatitis. There are four different types of viruses which cause viral hepatitis. They are either due to hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C or hepatitis E. Now hepatitis A and E they are transmitted due to fecal oral route. So avoiding unhygienic food and water and maintaining proper hygiene forms the key to prevent transmission of this viral infection. Now hepatitis B and C, they can occur in the form of acute infection or they can even lead to chronic infection which can lead to cirrhosis and eventually epithelial carcinoma. The treatment for acute hepatitis viral B and C infection is conservative management and chronic infection can be treated with the help of drugs. Hepatitis B virus infection can be prevented with the help of vaccination. Vaccine of hepatitis B is usually even at birth but if a person is not vaccinated at birth this vaccination can even be even in adulthood. So to conclude viral hepatitis can be of different types and prevention of viral hepatitis is the most important factor by which we can prevent this viral infection and we can even prevent chronic liver disease in the form of cirrhosis and epithelial carcinoma.