Infection Control Unit

Opening hours and contact information

Visiting address

Tyks Main Hospital, building 9

Kiinamyllynkatu 4-8

Turku

4th floor

Postal address

PO Box 52

20521 Turku

Ward secretary

02 313 2431

Infection consultation

02 313 3598

Our unit aims to enhance and maintain hospital. Our duties include the monitoring and control of hospital infections in the hospitals, health centres and other units.

We monitor the situation of infectious diseases in the wellbeing services county and co-ordinate the treatment and control of epidemics in the region.

The focus of our work is in monitoring and controlling infections occurring in treatment (hospital infections) and in recognising and managing epidemics. Our unit organises education in the field and offers consultation services.

In addition, we conduct research on the development of infection control.

We have compiled instructions on hospital hygiene and infection control for the patients, which can be found in Hoito-ohjeet.fi-website.

Responsibilities of the staff

Our head physician is in charge of the monitoring and control of contagious diseases and hospital infections of the wellbeing services county. Our specialist physician of infectious diseases is mainly in charge of the consultation of infectious diseases.

Infection control contact people

Every unit has one or two designated infection control contact persons, which are kept in record by the Infection Control Unit. Any changes in the contact person list should be directed to the ward secretary of the Infection Control Unit.

We monitor the situation of hospital infections and the resistance and consumption of microbial medication in the wellbeing services county. We perform necessary procedures in co-operation with the inpatient and outpatient wards and other units.

Instructions, recommendations and statements about hospital hygiene are compiled together with the hygiene work group.

We organise regional, centralised and work unit specific hospital hygiene and contagious disease education in co-operation with employees from different various fields, patients and their next of kin.

Our activity is developed according to the changing requirements of the society, new resistant microbes and the needs of the population of the wellbeing services county.

Several projects have been carried out in the past decade in order to develop our activity and enhance hospital hygiene, which have helped us to discover and unify hygiene policies and to give education in the health care and social units of the wellbeing services county area. The advancement of contagious disease control and pandemic control has partly been project-based work.

Hospitals

Tyks Main hospital's area

There are four Tyks hospitals in the area of the Main hospital, as well as several other buildings with patient reception and treatment facilities.