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Iran: Over %25 of ICU Patients Die Due to Hospital Infections

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NCRI – “Unfortunately, we can say that roughly more than 25 percent of the deaths of our patients in the intensive care unit is due to infection.” Stated Head of the Scientific Society of Critical Care

According to state-run ILNA news agency, on January 18, Ali Amir Savad Kouhi, Head of the Scientific Society of Critical Care, in an interview said: “Patients who enter the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) have a lower immunity (body immune system) and the possibility of transmission of infection to these patients is very high.”

“One of the main problems we witness in the ICU is transmission of infections. Lack of air flow separation in the hospital with the ICU is one of the reasons for the increase in infections. We have structural weaknesses in these sectors, which spread infections,” he emphasized.

He referred to the unstandardized structure of the hospitals and said: “Management of the ICUs is so hard that we have to get along with the situation. If we want to reach a situation like world-class hospitals, we must make changes in the structure of hospitals.”

Regarding the impact of infections on patients’ mortality, Head of the Scientific Society of Critical Care said: “Several factors may have a role in patients’ mortality but one of the main causes is infection.”

“Unfortunately, we can say that roughly more than %25 of the deaths of our patients in the intensive care unit is due to infection.”