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Infection Control and Hospital Hygiene in Belgium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Gerald Reybrouck  and
Raf Mertens
Gerald Reybrouck*
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratoiy, School of Public Health, Katholieke, Universiteit Leuven, Louvain, Belgium
Raf Mertens
Affiliation:
Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
*
Public Health Laboratory, Unversitary Hospital St.-Rafaël, Kapucijnenvoer, 33, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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In 1972 the Council of Europe, in which most of the Western European countries are represented, adopted a resolution aimed at the improvement of hospital hygiene and the promotion of the prevention of nosocomial infections. The member states were invited to take the required measures, but each country was free to implement the resolution according to its own needs and particularities. In Belgium, the first legal regulations were issued in 1974—every hospital was obliged to set up a committee for hospital hygiene.

Although similar regulations were issued in most other member states. the actual infection control policies adopted can vary. This article highlights some of the particularities for Belgium.

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , April 1989 , pp. 170 - 174
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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