Our Mission
To promote patient and staff safety in the healthcare settings by:
- promoting IPC measures
- advancing the field of healthcare epidemiology.
Our Goals
- Encourage and facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration on IPC issues
- Create opportunities for healthcare professionals with interest in IPC
- Work together to identify priorities and solutions in IPC
Our Objectives
- To raise awareness of IPC issues nationally and regionally
- To educate stakeholders on best practices of IPC
- To provide a forum for regular exchange of information on IPC issues.
- To prepare and disseminate IPC IEC materials
- To recognize and certify of IPC professionals
- To create an IPC database for research and decisions making
- To mentor, train and promote professional development in IPC
- To offer leadership in emergency preparedness, IPC, emerging and re-emerging diseases, bioterrorism, natural disasters
- To collaborate and share expertise with other organisations
- To promote high ethical standards in IPC
Membership
- Individual
- Corporate
- Students
- Emeritus
- must be a current member in good standing who has fully retired from the practice of IPC
- Patron
- firms or companies, which have an interest in, or concern about IPC.
Accomplishments
- Held 4 conferences, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015
- Participated in 2014 Blood safety Conference
- Partcipated in ICAN/ICAZ Conference 2014 - Meikles Hotel, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Supported M.O.H in development of Kenya National Policy and Guidelines on IPC, Curriculum for IPC, AMR surveillance guidelines etc
Accomplishments - Members
- Ebola sensitization/awareness to schools and churches
- CME to healthcare facilities
- Membership to national IPC committees
- Membership to Ebola preparedness teams-national/facility
Opportunities for IPNET
- IPC training curriculum development
- IPC sensitization/CME to facilities-the basics
- Support MOH in IPC documents dissemination
- Organize CME meetings and Workshops
- Hold Scientific Conferences
- Recruit more members
- Ebola response
- Trainings
- Technical support
- PPP with industry players to enhance IPC
- Disinfectants/hand hygiene products
- Injection devices
- PPE
- Collaboration with:
- Professional associations
- Training institutions
- Counties and facilities
Challanges
- Lack of secretariat
- Low membership
- Lack of footprint in all counties
- Lack of stand-by staff
- Not maximizing ICT-Website, e-learning etc
- Resources
