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Background: The origin of episiotomy is difficult to determine, but one of the first to describe it was a midwife, Sir Fielding Ould. In 1742, in his Treatise of Midwifery in Three Parts, he recommended the procedure for those cases in which the external vaginal opening is so tight that labor is dangerously prolonged. The first report of the procedure in the United States was 110 years later in a journal entitled.1 Objectives: 1. To assess the effectiveness of betadine wash on episiotomy wound healing among postnatal mothers. 2. To assess the effectiveness of normal saline wash on episiotomy wound healing among postnatal mothers. 3. To compare the effectiveness of betadine wash versus normal saline wash on episiotomy wound healing among postnatal mother. 4. To find out the association between level of episiotomy wound healing with selected demographic variables. Methodology: The True experimental Pre-test Post test design used for the study. It was conducted on 60 Postnatal Mother by using probability simple Random sampling technique. Results: The result revealed that the comparison of post intervention episiotomy wound healing scores of postnatal mothers in Betadine Wash versus Normal Saline Wash. Mean, standard deviation and mean difference values are compared and student's unpaired 't' test is applied at 5% level of significance. The tabulated value for n=30+30-2 i.e. 58 degrees of freedom was 2.00. The calculated 't' value i.e. 25.99 are much higher than the tabulated value at 5% level of significance for overall episiotomy wound healing score (REDDA scale) of postnatal mothers which is statistically acceptable level of significance. So betadine wash is moderately effective and normal saline wash was mild effective on episiotomy wound healing. Conclusion: it is statistically interpretation Analysis revels that there is association of episiotomy wound healing with Age (in year), Occupation and Area of residence while none of the other demographic variables were associated with episiotomy healing score. And Betadine Wash versus Normal Saline Wash on episiotomy wound healing among postnatal mothers of selected hospitals was effective. Thus the H1 is accepted.