“We need a surveillance system that goes beyond Covid“. So to Adnkronos Welcome the infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti, director of infectious diseases at the polyclinic hospital San Martino in Genoa.
“Today we monitor infectious diseases that are subject to notification requirements (from viral hepatitis to meningitis) but there are others to follow that have become more frequent and do not require any notification, for example hospital-acquired pneumonia, community-acquired pneumonia, those associated with meningitis. ventilation, or sepsis, even serious forms of infection, no one in Italy knows these numbers – affirms Bassetti – Scientific societies carry out studies but they are limited to limited periods, and then there are monitoring systems influential at some regions such as Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Fvg . Others have nothing and the national data is misleading and limited We need a surveillance system that goes beyond Covid: where the microbiological diagnosis of an infection is confirmed by public and private laboratories, compile a report showing the disease and type, everything should be managed by a centralized body”.
“Then we could make a monthly report with all the data – which should be mandatory for local health authorities and hospitals – so that we would understand which bacteria are resistant”, the diseases “from sensitive bacteria and what syndromes we have – he said – We would then need a centralized organization that carefully analyzes that regional data with a disease monitoring system so that we understand the extent of the disease, no we only know about Covid but otherwise it doesn’t matter much and this is very wrong”.
2024-08-10 11:42:00
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