Health: 7,000 deaths per year for hospital infections

Naples (askanews) – Every year, 7000 deaths occur in our country for nosocomial infections, sepsis during hospitalization or after the patient resigns. A very high number, equal to twice the number of deaths caused by accidents on the road. Among the main causes of infections are the incorrect decontamination procedures and the excessive use of antibiotics that fuel the proliferation of resistant pathogens.The possible strategies to combat this phenomenon were discussed in Naples during the national forum promoted by the Center. Studies Mediterranea Europa which brought together researchers, doctors, structural managers and public administrators: "Hospital infections are a problem we have known for a long time in Campania, which is among other things the first Region to have launched specific guidelines . said Alessandro Perrella, an infectiologist at Cardarelli Hospital in Naples – What to do so: intervention procedures, monitoring, using all the tools already available and making a speech about infection prevention. " Forum work was opened by a lectio magistralis of Mbadimo Clementi, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University San Raffaele di Milano "It is certain that an active strategy is needed to combat the nosocomial infections, an active strategy based on monitoring, control, notification and intervention strategies to reduce the amount, "said Clementi – When these strategies were applied, they have had sometimes exciting results "Even the public administration must take an active part in the management, with administrative and regulatory means, of what, by hand, becomes a real emergency "We must certainly intervene, even beyond the specific alarm – confirmed Michele Schiano de Visconti, counselor of the Campania Region and surgeon – Sanitation of the hospital environment, sanitation of health facilities is a requirement and a priority. Intervening with the maximum attention on these issues is certainly a duty of policy, administrations and the region that manages health. "The record of infections after surgery in the Aosta Valley holds, with 500 cases per 100,000 discharged." Follow Liguria with 454 and Emilia-Romagna with 416. Spaced a little Lombardy, Veneto, Umbria and the city of Trento which has about 300.