Training programme to curb infections at Health Center

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We are using this module for the Samastha USAID funded project as well in India.

In 2006-07 Engender had partnered with Kerala SACS to conduct these training in

government hospitals.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008: Training programme to curb infections

Staff Reporter

Thiruvananthapuram: The Hospital Infection Prevention Committee at the Medical

College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, has launched a training programme in

infection control and asepsis protocols for its doctors, nurses and paramedical

staff.

The programme, sponsored by the National Rural Health Mission and coordinated by

the Prevention of Epidemics and Infectious Diseases (PEID) Cell at the MCH, is

on the lines of the infection control training module implemented at SAT

Hospital following the hospital infection episode at its neonatal unit in May

last year.

All doctors, house surgeons, nurses and cleaning staff will be imparted training

in batches over a period of two months.

The programme was formally inaugurated on Monday by NRHM State Mission Director

Dinesh Arora.

The focus of the training programme will be on minimising nosocomial infections

and how the current practices of infection control can be improved to this end.

The training module on asepsis protocols was prepared byEngender Health, an NGO

based in New Delhi, which is promoting safe and sustainable health services. The

course is intended to help health service providers, doctors, medical students

and nurses strengthen infection prevention practices in low resources settings.

http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/13/stories/2008051360790300.htm

Vijayabhaskar Reddy Kandula

Vijayabhaskar Reddy K, MD, MPH

Technical Director

HIV Treatment, Care and Support

EngenderHealth

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