PUBLIC POLICIES ON COMBATING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS
PUBLIC POLICIES ON COMBATING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Nosocomial infections are a specific problem of our health system, whose main source is the financing of the health system and, implicitly, the funds granted for retrofitting the buildings in which hospitals carry out their activity. The much praised health law, namely Law no. 96 of 2000, which launched a real renovation of the health system, actually regulates the flow of hospital activity and hence of the building it takes place in, through the manner of placement of wards, windows, beds, baths, and the manner visitors and staff consisting of specialized doctors, nurses and orderlies come into contact with the patient, but, regarding the old buildings, this law exists only from a regulatory perspective. The purpose of regulating the flow of activity was to create a specific building where the microbes from external space would be controlled, by establishing how visitors could visit the patients, as well as by controlling how the entire hospital staff dedicated to the accomplishment of the medical act would come into contact with the patient, according to the severity of the patient’s status and the improvement of the medical act.

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