Infection Prevention and Control: Practical Guide for Healthcare Facilities

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Dr. Serge Blaise Emaleu is a medical doctor (M.D) and trained surgeon. He also

specialized in infectious disease /Immunology through the interdisciplinary

post-doctoral training program at Stanford University School of Medicine

in California (USA),

In 2012 He joined the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston

Massachusetts (USA) to Study the Approaches to Infection Prevention and

Control (IPC) in Healthcare settings.

Early In 2014, Dr. Emaleu joined the fight against Ebola Virus Diseases in Sierra Leone, where he

served first a Senior Technical Advisor (Case Management pillar and later as the Clinical management

sub-pillar co-chair) to the Sierra Leone National Ebola Response Committee (NERC),

In that capacity, he helped to review and revise treatment protocols to improve survival rates of

those infected with the Ebola virus.

2015, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO) as an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)

Specialist consultant, where he helped to manage IPC priorities and activities within the overall

outbreak response.

He assessed IPC capacities and practices in hospitals healthcare facilities in areas directly affected

by the outbreak and identified needs for further assessment, based on his revision. He reviewed

the IPC measures implemented in the affected areas and advised on prevention of healthcare associated

infections. He provided guidance on immediate IPC policies, resource, equipment,

and training requirement for central, provincial, and district level hospital to ensure adequate

preparations for response should the outbreak spread to other health zones.

Once the outbreak was over, Dr. Emaleu remained in Sierra Leone working with the World Health

Organization (WHO) and Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) to set up the

country’s first National Infection Prevention Control Unit (NIPCU). This book is a culmination of

his efforts to develop health care policies and train staff in Sierra Leone to reduce nosocomial

infection through improved infection prevention control practice. This book is a handy guide for

the conscientious health worker who wants to keep their patients safe.

Dr. Emaleu’s helped Finalizing and to disseminate, IPC policy and Guideline documents, build

and strengthened ability in preventing nosocomial/Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) in Sierra

Leone and the subregion transferred Knowledge in preventing emerging and reemerging

infectious diseases.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B077P2XT5G
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 21, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 10444 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages