An overview of the congress (Source: VGP) (VNA) – The of the Asia-Pacific
Society of Infection Control (APSIC) opened in the central city of Da Nang on
March 20.
The three-day event,
the first one held in Vietnam, attracts the participation of 1,500 delegates
who are experts, doctors and researchers in from 31 nations
over the world.
The biennial congress aims
to create a forum for participants to discuss and get updates on this field.
At this year’s event,
delegates are expected to exchange opinions on 117 scientific reports with the
focus on infection at hospitals, infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance,
environmental sanitation, and infection prevention measures.
Speaking at the
congress, Director of the Health Ministry’s Medical Examination and Treatment
Department Luong Ngoc Khue stated that safety for patients and infection
control at health clinics are among top priorities of countries, including
Vietnam.
However, this is also
a big challenge amid outbreaks of new diseases as well as familiar ones, and
the spreading of multidrug and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Over the past years,
the Vietnamese Health Ministry has carried out a lot of policies and action
programmes to intensify infection control at hospitals, and gained some
achievements such as building an infection control system from the Health
Ministry to health clinics and controlling many diseases likes SARS, avian flu
A/H1N1 and measles, he added.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
