From 9 to 11 May 2023, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and ECDC hosted the first risk-ranking workshop with the Eastern Regional Coordination Centre in Moroni, Comoros.
We talked to her ahead of the seven-day MediPIET module on One Health and vector-borne diseases organised by ECDC under the EU Initiative on Health Security.
The majority of HAIs in ICUs are associated with the use of invasive devices (e.g. endotracheal tubes, vascular and urinary catheters), and a significant proportion of these HAIs is considered preventable.
In 2019, 8 874 (7.4%) of patients staying in an intensive care unit (ICU) for more than two days presented with at least one ICU-acquired healthcare-associated infection (HAI) under surveillance (pneumonia, bloodstream infection, or urinary tract infection).
Between 2018 and 2020, nearly 20 000 surgical site infections (SSIs) were reported from a total of over 1.2 million surgical procedures in 13 EU/EEA countries participating in ECDC-coordinated SSI surveillance. Over 2 500 hospitals are part of this surveillance network.