{"id":4164,"date":"2026-09-20T05:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/?page_id=4164"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T05:25:35","slug":"inroduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/inroduction\/","title":{"rendered":"INRODUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In the early 1970s, hospital infection activities were the responsibility of the Infection Control Unit in the Department of Medical Microbiology. Staff then comprised a Medical Microbiologist, a registered nurse and a Medical Laboratory Technologist.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">To cope with increasing problems with nosocomial infections, a nursing sister was assigned to the Unit for several years (1987-1990).This was followed by the appointment of three Infection Control Nurses (ICN) in 1997, 1998 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Eventually, the Infection Control Department (ICD) was formed on 3rd April 2000, under the directive of the Hospital Director and Chairman of the Infection Control Committee, PPUM, Prof. Dato&#8221;&#8221; Dr. Anuar Zaini Mohd Zain. The ICD was created specifically to enable more rapid and effective actions to be taken in the prevention and control of nosocomial infections.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Currently, the ICD works closely with the Microbiology Diagnostic Laboratory and Infectious Diseases Physicians.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In the early 1970s, hospital infection activities were the responsibility of the Infection Control Unit in the Department of Medical Microbiology. Staff then comprised a Medical Microbiologist, a registered nurse and a Medical Laboratory Technologist. To cope with increasing problems with nosocomial infections, a nursing sister was assigned to the Unit for several years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4164\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomalique.com\/infectioncontrol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}