Infections associated to medical assistance are still under-reported in Romania, said, on Tuesday, at a specialty conference, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila.
"Still, infections associated to medical assistance are under-reported in Romania. We are approaching 1% of the number of discharged patients, but we are still far from the average of the European Union, not because we wanted to have more infections, but we want to know what the reality is and try at least the invasive infections, the invasive diseases with multi-resistant bacteria appear as rarely as possible in Romanian hospitals and this would have a very good influence on mortality as well," said Rafila.
According to the minister, another objective is the reduction of the consumption of antibiotics, as well as changing the structure used for their administering.
"One of the targets is that regarding the consumption of antibiotics and changing the structure of antibiotic consumption, because we use antibiotics many times when they shouldn't be used, first intent antibiotics. Furthermore, being able to make a good quality microbiological diagnosis may be favored by the fact that, finally, after thirty years, there is in Romania the specialty of medical microbiology as it has existed before in all the countries of the European Union," Alexandru Rafila explained.
He showed that resistance to antimicrobials is a phenomenon that generated a multi-sectorial approach.
"We've managed, until now, to elaborate a few documents that were necessary to the health system in Romania and were necessary for the integration of activities. Resistance to antimicrobials is a phenomenon that generated a multi-sectorial approach, 'one health' which includes, besides human medicine or human health, that in the veterinary sector and environmental factors. (...) Until the current time, two instruments were developed which need approval within a structure that theoretically exists for many years, but which is not functional - an inter-sectorial committee represented by people in decision-making in several ministries. It regards the national strategy, the national strategic framework, and the national action plan," said the Health Mninister.
Alexandru Rafila attended a conference organized by the Prof. Dr. Matei Bals National Institute for Infectious Disease, in collaboration with the Elias Emergency University Hospital and the Dr. Carola Davila Central Military Emergency University Hospital, as part of the project titled "Strengthening the institutional capacity for the control of hospital infections and management of antibiotic consumption in Romania., Agerpres informs.
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