<p>A total of 213, 984 patients were admitted in the Hospital for various diseases. Of these, 4,239 cases were admitted as acute diarrheal (2%) during the 1-year surveillance. Out of these, 1,240 cases were sampled for laboratory confirmation and 453 cases (36.5%) were positive for rotavirus antigen. Rotavirus detection rates were the highest in children aged 3–24 months (76.3%), 14.6% in children aged &lt; 6 months, 11% in children aged 25–59 months.</p>