The seminar aimed to be an initiative to collectively ensure stringent level of sterilisation and highest quality of patient care in the healthcare industry
Hospital Sterile Services Association (HSSA) recently organised a full day seminar ‘STERI-TECH 2015’ in Mumbai. More than 200 participants attended this seminar and 45 vendors displayed their products.
The seminar was able to stride ahead with an initiative to collectively ensure stringent level of sterilisation and highest quality of patient care in the healthcare industry. HSSA continues its efforts to create awareness and keep every stakeholder updated on the latest trends and knowledge in critical CSSD activities and patient care. The seminar had presentation and discussion regarding CSSD techniques and other affiliated issues with latest updates on international standards.
The seminar started with a welcome speech by Neena Kulkarni, Secretary, HSSA and introduction speech by SP Gaonkar, President, HSSA. The seminar was inaugurated by Dr Ramesh M Chaturvedi, Dean, Cooper Hospital, Mumbai.
Felipe Mejia, Director of Project Planning CSSD, Belimed, gave a presentation on ‘Planning and Designing of CSSD.’ He highlighted the need for a unidirectional flow of AHU system. He emphasised the ‘must’ demarcations in the department and also pointed out those which could be given a low priority in case of constraint of space and other resources.
Dr Vithal Kamat, Executive Chairman and MD, Kamat Hotels India, gave tips on how to reach the level of excellence in any industry, hospitality or healthcare. He shared his own experiences to communicate his basic theory of excellence and success.
Dr Aruna Poojari, Sr Microbiologist in Breach Candy Hospital, spoke about the challenges caused by biofilms in the sterilisation process. This area was more or less getting neglected in the cleaning science which is a pre requisite for the success of sterilisation.
Richard Bancroft, Development and Technical Service Director of Albert Browne spoke about international standards and quality assurance in CSSD. His involvement in standardising EN standards in Europe made his presentation more authoritative and understandable.
Dr Hrishikesh Vaidya, Medical Director of Horizon Hospital, based in Thane, expressed his views about how the CSSD should function to realise the requirements of a nursing home type of hospital. This presentation was useful for small hospitals to work in line with right practices of CSSD with limited resources.
Karnik Parikh, Director, Pharmalab India took the delegates through the anatomy of steam sterilisers in a very simple way. As most of the CSSD staff action is limited to only operation of the sterilisers, there was a gap of understanding of basic minimum know-how about the technical aspects of the sterilisers.
Sarbajit Dey, Service Manager, STERIS INDIA gave a detailed illustration about the recent innovation of hydrogen peroxide sterilisation. Although these types of sterilisers have become a common asset in most of the Indian CSSD, it is still unknown to a huge volume of the CSSD personnel.
Shine Anil, Dy Chief of Nursing at Wockhardt Hospitals, made a change in the concept about service to operation theatre through CSSD by highlighting CSSD and OR collaboration. Quite a few points were discussed on how CSSD can develop a better image in customer care issues although it is a back operation.
The seminar ended with a quiz competition and all the delegates were awarded with participation certificates.
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