Saudi Arabia MOH: D.aelaidla: four essential elements for the implementation of infection control plan in the pilgrimage season

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September 24, 2015 The general manager of anti-infection health facilities Ministry of Health Hayel Al Abdali he was processing 76 rooms in Mecca negative pressure in addition to the 140 rooms isolate with high filtration device, either in Medina There are 46 room negative pressure and 133 isolation room with high filtration device, pointing out that the infection control plan in the pilgrimage season include four basic elements of infrastructure, tools and supplies and technical personnel, training and finally the Action Plan. He pointed out that the Ministry of Health focused on supplies and tools personal protection such as clothing and gloves hands high and masks filtering and be used for only once, in addition to the suitability of the size of the health practitioner, noting that he has been provided and cover about 98 percent of health practitioners participants pilgrimage this year in Mecca and 86 percent of the participants in Medina, adding that among the preventive measures for health practitioners vaccinations essential to emphasize taken by health practitioners, a vaccine against meningitis and was covered by 99 percent and the vaccine against seasonal flu were covered by 96 percent. He said Al-Abdali said the ministry did not ignore the side of the training of health personnel in theory and practice for participants from within the Kingdom and the participants from abroad, and that the lack of familiarity with some ways to combat infection, where the ministry has set up four emergency training sessions during Weekly last two in Makkah and four training courses in Medina, noting that the number of participants in these courses exceeded the target number for the weakness of their awareness of their importance and benefit from, these include courses infection control in general measures and procedures to prevent Corona virus and procedures for the prevention of tuberculosis and infectious diseases and hygiene, we have included all participants in hospitals and health centers and the Saudi Red Crescent. He said Al-Abdali said the action plan and the distribution of tasks have been prepared ahead of time, where the workforce distribution to hospitals feelings and the Holy City and Medina as appropriate to the number of beds and density so that where the practitioners to fight infection present various categories of specialists and technicians, has also been secondment of consultants infectious disease surveillance, treatment and counseling and to provide support for medical staff of various specializations in all health facilities in the case of infectious diseases and infections and diseases most common Kalthabat chest and gastrointestinal tract infections and malaria. Abdali and pointed to prepare them for an action plan especially starting from the sampling of the syndrome Middle East Corona virus to reach the laboratory for analysis of any case in which the suspect, adding that the time schedule to extract the results of the analysis does not exceed six hours, in addition to developing a plan for evacuation in the case of patients not allowed God through coordination with the Emergency Management and others related. Abdali and revealed the existence of a large number of specialist sterilization has been distributed to all hospitals to sterilize instruments used in laparoscopic surgery or reusable, according to the Universal Protocol for sterilization through autoclaves.

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