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Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.
C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.
Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?
Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.
Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
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Quebec: Three-years plan to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections. (June 9, 2006) |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Tuesday, 13 June 2006 |
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.jpg) Quebec Health Ministry, Phillippe Couillard unveiled a three-year plan to reduce the number of nosocomial infections in Quebec hospitals by 30%. Phillipe Couillard declared that in addition to saving lives, the effort will reduce the huge costs generated by these infections – estimated at 180 million per/year – It will also free an average of 300 hospital beds/year.
The Ministry added that C.difficile infection that severely hit Quebec between 2002 and 2003 – causing 1400 deaths – is down by 40%. But C. difficile is not the only nosocomial infection: MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) is another threatening bacteria, and there are many others.
The plan insists on reinforced basic hand hygiene and a better use of antibiotics.
To conclude, Phillippe Couillard, a neurological surgeon himself, explained that the battle against infections in hospital will never end. “Bacteria are and will always be part of hospital life »
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