IPSF APRO Newsletter, Issue No. 6

Asian Pacific Regional Office | Newsletter

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The 13th PSA TaiwanAnnual CongressTime of the activity : 17-20 January 2012Location of the activity : China Medical University, TaiwanParticipants : 200 pharmaceutical students

There are seven pharmacy schools in Taiwan. The national annual congress is held by one of the 7 schools each year, and this year, The 13th PSA-Taiwan Annual Congress was held by the students of China Medical University. We invited experts from all kinds of fields to share experiences and the new trends of pharmacy. The topic of the workshop was about herbal medicine (Chinese medicine).

The welcome party

Visiting the hospital pharmacy Gala night

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Students today, Pharmacists tomorrow

PSUTThailand

by: Arphakorn Supasri (Ploy)

Since September 2011, PSUT has held several monthly meeting fto remain updated and to discuss activities hosted by the universities including:

• 3rd-4th September, PSUT meeting at Srinakarindwirot University• 3rd-4th December, PSUT monthly meeting at Payap University• 4th-5th February ,PSUT monthly meeting at Chulalongkorn Universityalso several times online meetings . Besides monthly meeting, PSUT has many activities.

National Pharmacy Game on 8th-11th October 2011 at Mahasarakham University

It is sports day that pharmacy students from every university come together to develop strong relationships by holding a public health campaign, and by participating in competitive sporting events, cheering friends during events and to have fun in leisure games. Unfortunately due to flooding attendance was not 100% but we did host other activities for the flood activities and thus, we strengthened our community ties.

Diabetes picture contest participation

Thai university students show their power. This is a new generation of young people aware of the seriousness behind diabetes and ready to fight the silent disease and to take control. Also, a campaign was held for diagnosed diabetics and was designed to increase awareness and educate individuals on self-managing tools to stay healthy.


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98 years Thai Pharmacy council on 8th December

To recall the important history, all of the Thai pharmacy students changed profile pictures together for 3 days on 7th -9th December.

Patient Counseling Event competition for Thai pharmacy students On 15 January 2012

To support Thai students across 18 universities in developing patient counselling skills and to strengthen bonds between each university.

The 3st Multidisciplinary Students Camp 2011 on 7th January in Ayudhaya province

“Healthy delivery” is an activity that 6 health care students which are Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, Nursing , Medical technology, and Public Health Students join together to do campaign for people to check their health, give them knowledge about drugs using, chronic disease prevention, good hygiene and also alcohol and smoking cessation in Ayudhaya province.


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Thai Pharmacy students help flood victims

As a consequence of flooding in 2012, many communities were affected and therefore, PSUT and pharmacy students throughout Thailand collaborated with each other, as well as with other faculty departments in different universities to help manufacture and deliver much needed medicines to the affected regions, including Whifield’s ointment and citronella oil.

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BEM KMFAUGM

Indonesiaby: Anggie Wiyani

Hello fellow future pharmacists! Warm greetings from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This is Anggie Wiyani your CP of BEM KMFA UGM speaking. Hereby I want to share a journey that BEM KMFA UGM has been through on the last months. The months between December and March are usually very hectic in BEM KMFA UGM and I will share you the story....

December 2011 – The ElectionOn December, we elected the new president of BEM KMFA

UGM. There were 3 candidates and all of them were very enthusiastic doing their campaign. Our campus was full of their faces on banners, posters, and even stickers. Every students in our faculty can participate int this democratic event by giving their vote. From the election we finally had the new President. Hopefully you will meet him in Taiwan!

President debate The elected president


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December 2011 – World HIV/AIDS Day CampaignAlso during December, we held our HIV/AIDS Campaign

which was a talkshow with the topic “Revealing the Fact of HIV Drug”. It was open to the public with no registration fee, so there were many people interested to participate. We also attracted students from different disciplines such as management and engineering. We had 3 speakers including two doctors and one of our faculty lecturers. We invited a HIV/AIDS diagnosed patient to share her story. At the end of the talkshow we made a human red ribbon formation while releasing 100 baloons to the air, a symbol of our commitment to fight against HIV/AIDS. Fight the virus, not the person - The main idea of the campaign. You can find the activity report at: http://issuu.com/ipsfugm/ docs/bem_kmfa_ugm_-_hiv_aids_talkshow

January 2012 – The TransformationLate January was a month full of exams as well as the newly elected president recruiting people to be the

part of the Executive Board. This year included a very dramatic change for our association. We opened a new department to keep focus on international affairs and anything related to IPSF named the ‘International Affairs Department’. In previous years there was no specific department to handle IPSF activities, but this year we finally created an official department. I was appointed the new Contact Person for BEM KMFA UGM as well as being the Head of the International Affairs Department. Hopefully we will be able to further contribute to our society by innovating our public health campaigns and by being more active in IPSF activities.

BEM KMFA UGM Executive board

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February 2012 – New TeamIn February we recruited new members by holding an open recruitment. Students applied for positions they

desired to join. The process was to complete the enrollment form, hold an interview with the head of the interested department and to interview with the president of BEM KMFA UGM. In the end the International Affairs Department which handle welcomed 8 new members.

March 2012 – New SpiritCCurrently we are focusing on promoting our association for the Student Exchange Programme (SEP) by

opening new fields and renewing our promotion materials. You can have a look on our SEP Booklet by visiting http://issuu.com/ipsfugm/docs/sep_bem_kmfa_ugm.

This year we opened the community pharmacy field for the incoming SEP students. Hopefully they will have a remarkable experience whilst doing their internship here with our warm host families and friendly students. The outgoing students are also in the process selecting new SEOs. It will be a fresh start this year with a new team and new spirit. We are excited to start work- ing. Wish us luck! See you guys in Taiwan.

Text and photos by:Anggie Wiyani (Ms.)

Contact PersonBEM KMFA UGM

Indonesia


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Healthcare-associated infections management: Strengthening prevention, surveillance and control programs.by: NTIRENGANYA Rémy Pacifique

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are defined as infections acquired by the patient but not present and without evidence of incubation at the time of his/her admission to a healthcare setting. The term healthcare-associated infection is interchangeable with others such as nosocomial, hospital-acquired or hospital-onset infection.

In fact, within hours after admission, a patient’s flora begins to acquire characteristics of the surrounding bacterial pool. Most infections that become clinically evident after 48 hours of hospitalization are considered hospital-acquired. As for infections that occur after the patient is discharged from the hospital, they can be considered healthcare-associated if they were acquired during the hospital stay.

Healthcare-associated infections are of important wide-ranging concern in the medical field. They can be localized or systemic, can involve any system of the body, be associated with medical devices or blood product transfusion, environment and other healthcare practices.

Nosocomial infections pose frequent complications in hospitalized patients especially those in surgical wards. The issue has been recognized for more than a century as a critical problem affecting the quality of healthcare and as a principal source of adverse outcomes. In their research findings, Apostolopoulou E.et al. (2005) have reported that nosocomial infections affects more than two million patients annually which causes expenses worth 4.5 billion USD.

The socio-economic consequences such as prolongation of hospitalization, mortality and cost of infections treatment adversely affect patients well-being. Hospital acquired infections add to functional disability and emotional stress of the patient and in some cases lead to disabling conditions that reduce quality of life. Moreover, they are one of the leading causes of death.

The World Bank studies have shown that two-thirds of developing countries spend more than 50% of their health care budgets on hospitals, including substantial expenditures for advanced diagnosis and treatment, equipment and for care of high-risk patients such as newborns, surgical patients, or patients in intensive care units. Failure to prevent or control nosocomial infections can limit the benefits of these expenditures and further stress hospital budgets.

Treatment of hospital-acquired infections such as surgical site infections is complicated by recent increases in the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among nosocomial pathogens, often resulting in prolonged periods of antimicrobial therapy and increased treatment costs.

Extended therapy, particularly with broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents, encourages the development of multidrug-resistant pathogens. Medical professionals are often facing the challenging task of treating patients infected with these resistant pathogens using an armamentarium of antimicrobial agents that may be inadequate for the task.

Hospital-based programs of surveillance, prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections have been in place since the 1950s but they need to be strengthened. The Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control Project (SENIC) from the 1970s showed that nosocomial rates could be reduced by 32% if infection surveillance programs were coupled with appropriate infection control programs.

Continued surveillance, along with sound infection control programs, not only lead to decreased healthcare-associated infections but also better prioritization of resources and efforts to improving medical care.

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Prevention of nosocomial infections requires an integrated and monitored program. The two main arms of prevention are stopping the development of antibiotic resistance and preventing the spread of resistant organisms between patients. Most of infections can be prevented with readily available, relatively inexpensive strategies such us prevention of infections in staff members; protecting patients with appropriate use of prophylactic antimicrobials, nutrition and vaccinations; controlling environmental risks for infection; limiting the risk of endogenous infections by minimizing invasive procedures, and promoting optimal antimicrobial use; adhering to recommended infection prevention practices such as hand hygiene and wearing gloves; decontaminating and cleaning of soiled instruments and other items, followed by either sterilization or high-level disinfection and improving safety in operating rooms and other high-risk areas where the most serious and frequent injuries and exposures to infectious agents occur.

Brief, nosocomial infections are among the major health threats as they add unnecessary costs and burden to patients, families and the health care systems in general. Strengthening infection prevention, surveillance and control programs can reduce the rate of nosocomial infections and their related consequences.

About the author:

NTIRENGANYA Rémy PacifiqueIPSF-Pharmacy Education Sub-Committee Member 2011-12

B.Pharm V/2012 National University of Rwanda

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacy Po.Box :117 Butare-Rwanda

(+250)788749138/(+250)728749138e-mail: [email protected]


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