The expert explained the nature of the occurrence of infections in maternity hospitals

Nosocomial infections are a systemic risk for Russian maternity hospitals, their spread is facilitated by outdated material and technical facilities and buildings that do not meet modern sanitary requirements, co—chairman of the All-Russian Union of Patients Yan Vlasov told Izvestia.

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"In many ways, these cases are a consequence of decisions made many years ago: optimization of the bed stock and space, chronic shortage of medical personnel, primarily middle-level and specialized specialists. A separate systemic risk today is nosocomial infections," the expert said.

According to him, the spread of nosocomial infections is facilitated by outdated material and technical facilities and buildings that do not meet modern sanitary requirements, as well as a shortage of epidemiologists and infection control specialists.

"The structure of medical care-related infections (ISMS) most often includes pneumonia, postoperative infections, purulent-septic complications in maternity hospitals and newborns, as well as airborne infections. All this suggests the need to review approaches to the organization of inpatient care, infection safety and staffing," Vlasov emphasizes.

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