IMPROVEMENT OF HYGIENIC AND ANTI-EPIDEMIC MEASURES IN TB DISPENSARIES TO REDUCE INFECTION OF PATIENTS, MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND VISITORS

Abstract

Because of the serious situation concerning tuberculosis morbidity and high death rate caused by the disease the problem of improving preventive measures is urgent. For the last 7 years in TB prophylactic centers of Khabarovsk Krai the program of the international society of the Red Cross and Red Crescent of World Health Organization about the struggle against tuberculosis has been implemented. One of the conditions of the given program is the creation of a complex of epidemiological, clinical and sanitary-and-hygienic measures directed to the prevention of the infectious disease spread and the complex program of infectious control. The program of infectious control includes 3 levels of control: administrative, engineering and personal. Authors describe the ways of realization of infectious control at all levels and give an opinion on the necessity of similar approaches applications in the institutions of the general medical network, especially in out-patient polyclinics.