TIRANA, July 25/ATA/- Some 90 thousand interventions are performed each year in public hospitals with modern sterilization methods and new surgical instruments, which has also led to reduced hospital-acquired infection (HAI) rates.
During her inspection at the Lushnja Hospital’s sterilization sub-center, Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu stated that, “the service of providing new surgical instruments and the innovative administration of their sterilization marks a new era in the Albanian surgery service, guaranteeing the highest standards of best international methods and practices.
In Albania, there are 11 sub-centers of sterilization and some 21 million euros have been invested and 385 employees have been employed. The sterilization service is extended to 29 public hospitals. The hospitals will be supplied with about 96 thousand surgical instruments and 3 thousand supply sets will be ready at any moment throughout the country’s hospitals, within the surgical specialties.//a.i/
