Day of Resistance Slovenia

 

Dr Dorijan Marušič, Minister of Health, opening the symposium on antimicrobial resistance. Photo: Fotodokumentacijski center UKC/Jolanda Kofol,

Over 100 national experts attended a symposium marking World Health Day 2011 at Ljubljana University Clinical Centre, Slovenia on 1 April 2011. This year the national annual symposium on communicable diseases focused on antimicrobial resistance. The symposium was unsecured loans opened by Minister of Health Dr Dorijan Marušič and Dr Marijan Ivanuša, Head of the WHO Country Office in Slovenia and was the core national event marking World Health Day 2011.

Speakers included experts on communicable diseases, hospital infections and antimicrobial resistance, including members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

The speakers pointed out that even though Slovenia belongs to those countries that prescribe antimicrobial drugs more rationally, there is substantial room for improvement. The use of antibiotics is still too high (twice as high as in Scandinavian countries), although the bad credit loans number of prescriptions for antibiotics decreased in primary health care by approximately 25% in the last decade.

The co-organizers of the symposium, the Section for antimicrobial therapy at the Slovene Medical Association, the Cathedra for Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, and the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Illnesses published a report, "Challenges of the antimicrobial resistance in Slovenia: do we know how to respond?"