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World Health Organisation
Global Patient Safety Challenge |
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As the global federation of infection prevention societies, the vision of IFIC for many years has always been:
Every nation should have a functioning infection control organization.
Our mission has been focused on accomplishing that in every country of the world by providing the essential tools, education materials, and communication that unite the existing IC societies and foster development of IC organizations where they are needed.
IFIC also welcomes the opportunity to work with international organizations to achieve its goals. To this end, the World Health Organization has intensified its efforts towards infection prevention and control, particularly thorough the launch of the Global Patient Safety Challenge over the past year. As you can see in the attached letter from WHO, many of the core activities necessary for preventing healthcare-associated infection are being addressed:
- Hand hygiene
- Blood safety
- Injection and immunization safety
- Clinical practices
- Sanitation, water and waste management
These are the activities that we have all worked on in our hospitals, clinics and in our infection prevention organizations. IFIC supports these initiatives and participates on the WHO planning committees.
We now call on you to strengthen this joint effort and ask for your support in two important ways:
- IFIC and WHO would like to receive the endorsement of these initiatives from each IFIC member societies stating that your organization endorses the work. We would therefore invite you to click here and download the attached letter template and adapt it by including your organisation’s information and logo as well as any other comments you may wish to add and send it to us as an attachment to an email forwarded to Pamela Allen: pmaallen@aol.com
- Secondly we would also suggest copying in the government agency responsible for health care in your country about this endorsement. If your Ministry of Health has already pledged to support the WHO initiatives, you may wish to thank them for their leadership; if the ministry has not, please encourage them to do so and offer your support.
The Global Patient Safety Challenge by the World Health Organization, especially the Clean Care is Safe Care campaign, has the potential to make a real difference in preventing healthcare associated infections - as long as we all participate and support this vital initiative.Further information on the Clean Care is Safe Care initiative can be accessed at the following link http://www.who.int/patientsafety/challenge/clean.care/en/index.html
Thanks for your support,
Patricia Lynch, RN, MBA
IFIC Chair, 2006 |
Michael A Borg, MD, M.Sc.
IFIC Chair, 2007 |
