Strategy and technology to prevent hospital-acquired infections: Lessons from SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa

Sanjeewa Jayachandra Rajakaruna; Wen-Bin Liu; Yi-Bo Ding; Guang-Wen Cao

doi:10.1186/s40779-017-0142-5

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Strategy and technology to prevent hospital-acquired infections: Lessons from SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa

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- Strategy and technology to prevent hospital-acquired infections: Lessons from SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa
- Military Medical Research Vol. 4, Issue 4, Pages: 229-235(2017)
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  Department of Epidemiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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  *: gcao@smmu.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1186/s40779-017-0142-5
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- Published：2017-12
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Rajakaruna et al.: Strategy and technology to prevent hospital-acquired infections: Lessons from SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa. Mil Med Res, 2017, 4: 32 DOI： 10.1186/s40779-017-0142-5.

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Abstract

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are serious problems for healthcare systems

especially in developing countries where public health infrastructure and technology for infection preventions remain undeveloped. Here

we characterized how strategy and technology could be mobilized to improve the effectiveness of infection prevention and control in hospitals during the outbreaks of Ebola

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)

and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Asia and West Africa. Published literature on the hospital-borne outbreaks of SARS

Ebola

and MERS in Asia and West Africa was comprehensively reviewed. The results showed that healthcare systems and hospital management in affected healthcare facilities had poor strategies and inadequate technologies and human resources for the prevention and control of HAIs

which led to increased morbidity

mortality

and unnecessary costs. We recommend that governments worldwide enforce disaster risk management

even when no outbreaks are imminent. Quarantine and ventilation functions should be taken into consideration in architectural design of hospitals and healthcare facilities. We also recommend that health authorities invest in training healthcare workers for disease outbreak response

as their preparedness is essential to reducing disaster risk.

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