Yousef A Alomi
Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
Title: National antimicrobial stewardship program in Saudi Arabia: Experiences and future vision
Biography
Biography: Yousef A Alomi
Abstract
National antimicrobial stewardship is continuous work to optimize Antimicrobial usage to improve patient outcomes and prevent antimicrobial related Problems. General Administration of Pharmaceutical care established the program in 2013 by formulate Central Antibiotic Committees, this committee established National Antimicrobial Stewardship program consisting of formulating peripheral antibiotics, infectious diseases team, antibiotics physician order form, antibiotics consumption and usages, antibiogram regulations, and USA General of disease control antimicrobial stewardship monitoring outcome indicators. In 2014, Peripheral Antibiotics Committees were established at twenty regions to follow up the implementation of the program national wide, and started with antimicrobial stewardship education and orientation. In 2015, the real applications of the program was started in more than ten region and more than forty hospitals. Antimicrobial stewardship will be expanded to cover 20 regions and more ninety biggest hospitals, medical cities and privates hospital and primary care centers in Saudi Arabia. The program is excepting to reduce antimicrobial consumption more than 50% with reduction of bugs resistance to medication, reduction of antimicrobial related problems, better patients care with tremendous reduction of unnecessary cost.