MAKING INFECTION CONTROL AS ACCESSIBLE
AS A TOUCH OF A BUTTON
We at SPIC-EGYPT believe that infection control guidelines should be made reachable and accessible to all healthcare workers. Our outmost interest is prevention, which we believe is much more efficient than cure. We are a non-profit clinical micro-biologists’ entity aiming at serving the society of medical practitioners on different levels by:
- Empowering medical practitioners in using their knowledge and capacities for the benefit of their societies
- Providing a forum for medical practitioners to discuss topics related to infection control and hospital hygiene education and science with their fellow colleagues from other universities in Egypt as well as other nationalities around the globe, and to formulate policies from such discussions
- Promoting and facilitating professional and scientific interaction in addition to projects focusing on infection control updated guidelines
- Providing a link between its members and those of other societies, associations and international organizations, and to encourage the cooperation between them for the ultimate benefit of the healthcare settings
The society has scientific, cultural and social activities but no political or religious ones, promoting the implementation of infection control principles among professionals.
Our objective-oriented campaigns that yielded productivity:
* Hand Hygiene Campaign – January to December 2007, Ain Shams University Specialized Hospital, Cairo, EGYPT
* Preparedness of Pandemic Flu – December 2007 to February 2008, Ain Shams University Specialized Hospital, Cairo, EGYPT
* Workshop for Hand Hygiene (IFIC Special Interest Group) 13th-15th April 2008, Ain Shams University Specialized Hospital, Cairo, EGYPT
And coming up:
* 2nd Annual Congress of Infection Control, “Risk Procedures In Hospital Infections”,
1st of November 2008, Ain Shams University Specialized Hospital, Cairo, EGYPT
* 4th International Infection Control Conference of Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, “Neglected Infectiology and Associated Infection Control Problems”, 11th-13th November 2008, Giza, Egypt
SPICEGYPT is a non-profit entity (under foundation) – all rights reserved www.spicegypt.org