Health Minister Alexandru Rogobete said on Thursday that no hospital in the world is completely free of healthcare-associated infections, and encouraged the managers of healthcare facilities and department heads to report the presence of such pathogens.
"There are no hospitals, no intensive care units in the world where healthcare-associated infections are not identified. Never, nowhere on earth will we be able to reduce healthcare-associated infections to zero in an intensive care unit. What we can do, and what we are trying to do is limit their spread to other patients, their uncontrolled spread, as in the unfortunate case at the St. Maria hospital in Iasi, and to apply additional protocols for healthcare-associated control," Rogobete said.
He encouraged hospital managers and department heads to report these infections, as this is the only way to keep them under control.
"Stop keeping in-hospital infections under wraps, stop hiding these infections when they occur, because we are just shooting ourselves in the leg. Patients are put at risk and the system is getting a shadow that cannot be warded off, and the people's trust in the healthcare system is shrinking with each day. Reporting a healthcare-associated infection is not a crime, no one comes to fine anyone," the health minister said.
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