Introduction:
The Gulf Cooperation Council (States) Centre for Infection Control takes its direction from National Guard Health Affairs.
(NGHA), Infection Prevention and Control Program at King Abdulaziz Medical City – Riyadh (KAMC-R).
KAMC-R is a primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare facility. It is a 650-bed acute and long-term care teaching hospital and provides medical and surgical specialties, emergency, critical, obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatric, ambulatory, rehabilitation and home health care services.
The Infection Prevention and Control Program supports all the specialties and services provided by KAMC-Riyadh.
Its structure is comprised of Hospital Infection Control, Environmental Health Occupational Safety, Field Epidemiology and Public Health with a liaison to the Employee Health Service: all work in concert and function to ensure a high quality care using epidemiologic, quality improvement methodologies, evidence-based health care, education, research and collaboration for the prevention and control of infection and infectious diseases.
As the GCC (States) Centre for Infection Control, so appointed at the 58th Meeting of the Ministers of Health for the GCC States, its scope of service is widened beyond the confines of KAMC-R to all health care facilities in the Gulf State countries.
To clarify its role and expanded scope so as to develop a frame work to guide its activities, a proposal was formulated and submitted for review and approval; thus formalizing a structure for the GCC (States) Centre for Infection Control.