Via Saigon Giai Phong, a disturbing report: Vietnam on alert for hospital infections. Excerpt:
Per year, one million Vietnamese patients suffer postoperative infection due to nosocomial infections or hospital-acquired infection. Overloaded hospitals have worsened bacterial contamination among patients.
Patients also experienced a healthcare-associated infection due to hospital-acquired infection. Patients are crammed on a bed and doctors have to carry two or three surgeries at the same time; consequently patients are infected afterwards, said Prof Luong Ngoc Khue, Chief of department of Medical Checkups and Treatment Management.
He added that hospital-acquired infection further treatment time from 9 to 24 days; accordingly hospital fee will increase from VND2-32.3 million (US$94- 1,518) a patient.
A study conducted by Nhan Dan Gia Dinh Hospital showed that hospital-acquired pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that occurs during a hospital stay. Pneumonia occurs more often in patients who are using a breathing machine (respirator). The rate of pneumonia patients due to using breathing machine in a long time is over 60 percent.
Tests showed that the presence of antiviral resistance in over 90 percent of patients’ phlegm.
Similarly, the rate of pneumonia patients due to hospital-acquired infection is highest rate among other diseases in Cho Ray Hospital, according to a study of Dr. Le Thi Anh Thu and her colleagues on hospital bacterial contamination.