FAQ

Important steps to be taken at hospital level to contain AMR are:

• Establish an infection prevention and control committee (IPC).
• Whenever available, use rapid point-of-care diagnostics to support clinical decisions and further develop where inadequacies persist.
• Promote rational antimicrobial use.
• Develop standardised antibiotic surveillance systems for antibiotic resistance and antibiotic use.
• Purchase food raised without routine antimicrobials
• Improve sanitation in hospitals to prevent healthcare associated infections
• Improve waste management to efficiently remove pharmaceuticals and microbes
• Hand hygiene with soap or alcohol-based rub are key to protect patients from avoidable infections contracted in health-care settings and prevent the spread of AMR (WHO, 2017)
• Include environmental criteria in antimicrobial drugs’ procurement decisions to improve transparency along the supply chain.
• Report AMR cases and resistance patterns to the regional and international levels, such as through the EARS-Net EU reporting network