An overview of the congress (Source: VGP)Da Nang (VNA) – The ninth International Congress of the Asia-PacificSociety of Infection Control (APSIC) opened in the central city of Da Nang onMarch 20.
The three-day event,the first one held in Vietnam, attracts the participation of 1,500 delegateswho are experts, doctors and researchers in infection control from 31 nationsover the world.
The biennial congress aimsto 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 thefocus on infection at hospitals, infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance,environmental sanitation, and infection prevention measures.
Speaking at thecongress, Director of the Health Ministry’s Medical Examination and TreatmentDepartment Luong Ngoc Khue stated that safety for patients and infectioncontrol at health clinics are among top priorities of countries, includingVietnam.
However, this is alsoa big challenge amid outbreaks of new diseases as well as familiar ones, andthe spreading of multidrug and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Over the past years,the Vietnamese Health Ministry has carried out a lot of policies and actionprogrammes to intensify infection control at hospitals, and gained someachievements such as building an infection control system from the HealthMinistry to health clinics and controlling many diseases likes SARS, avian fluA/H1N1 and measles, he added.-VNA
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