Department of infection control

The Department of infection control is unique in the Republic of Belarus. It brings together infectious diseases doctors, an epidemiologist, a clinical pharmacologist, bacteriologists, a registered nurse and an assistant epidemiologist.

Main activities:

• complex of sanitary-hygienic and anti-epidemic measures aimed at preventing infectious complications;
• continuous microbiological monitoring (screening of certain categories of patients) to determine the antimicrobial sensitivity of isolated microorganisms;
• antimicrobial management, which includes the development of up-to-date algorithms for prevention, diagnosis, empirical and targeted antimicrobial therapy of infectious complications and their continuous updating based on an operational analysis (1-2 times a half-year) of the situation with the microbial landscape and microbial resistance;
• operational accounting of antimicrobial drug consumption in hospitals and departments for subsequent analysis and use of this data for correction and optimization of antimicrobial management; consulting activities in clinical departments in relation to patients with infectious complications;
• educational activities (training of hospital staff, professional development of specialists from other institutions), participation in scientific research related to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious complications.