Workshop held on surveillance of healthcare-associated infections

The Department of Microbiology and the Infection Prevention and Control Team of Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) successful relation with AIIMS and US-headquartered Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bureau successful New Delhi precocious conducted a two-day store connected surveillance of healthcare-associated infections.

The store was organised against the backdrop of healthcare-associated infections posing a superior situation for diligent information worldwide. Surveillance systems are captious tools for identifying trends, evaluating interventions, and reducing corruption rates successful healthcare facilities, a property merchandise from PIMS said.

The store brought unneurotic experts from AIIMS and CDC who served arsenic assets persons, sharing their acquisition and champion practices successful corruption surveillance and prevention.

About 130 participants from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat from assorted aesculapian colleges, territory hospitals and wellness attraction institutions attended the sessions. The store featured interactive sessions, hands-on exercises, and radical discussions aimed astatine strengthening participants’ capableness to measure, prevent, and trim healthcare-associated infections.

Sheela Devi, Professor of Microbiology and Member Secretary of the Infection Prevention and Control Committee, Renu G. Boy Varghese, Director-Principal, PIMS, Purva Mathur, Professor of Microbiology astatine AIIMS, New Delhi, Valan Siromony, nationalist wellness specializer from CDC, Delhi, Reba Kanungo, erstwhile Dean (Research) and HOD, and Sujitha, prof of Microbiology PIMS, addressed the participants.

Experts discussed champion practices successful corruption surveillance and prevention, bloodstream corruption module, urinary tract corruption module, outbreak investigation, and the ventilator-associated pneumonia module. Sessions included case-based discussions, demonstrations of the HAI database and website, and interactive exercises to fortify participants’ applicable skills, the property enactment said.