New Delhi: With the steep rise in Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in the country, BD-India, a leading medical technology company organized ‘Heal-o-nomics’. The program was conceptualized to apprehend the challenge of preventing HAIs with the aim to achieve better health outcomes at an optimized cost.
Sharing his expertise on the issues related to HAIs, the President of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), Dr Victor D. Rosenthal, presented findings on the epidemiology and prevention of BSI, to the Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC) of prominent health institutes in Delhi and Bangalore.
Hospital-Acquired Infections, also known as a nosocomial infection, are acquired from healthcare facilities through hospital staff, patients, contaminated equipment and linen, among other factors. According to the World Health Organisation, at any given time over 1.4 million people across the globe suffer from hospital-acquired infection (HAI). HAIs account for 2 million cases and about 80,000 deaths a year.
