Establishment of the Surveillance Unit at Liver Research and Services Center
Assiut University has taken the initiative to work in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population to be the first university that has a communicable disease surveillance system that is part of the National Surveillance System of Communicable Diseases. Surveillance is an ongoing system of data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting of communicable and non communicable diseases. Establishing this unit in Assiut University will serve as an extension to the National Surveillance System Network. It provides a data base that not only serves policy makers and program directors, but is also researchers as well. Assiut University has a complex of University Hospitals; General and Specialized Hospitals that are planned to be the source of the data for the surveillance. El-Raghy nearby Liver Hospital is planned to be the starting point as well as the main hospital clinical pathology laboratory.
Currently, 27 diseases are monitored nationally by this system. Our plan is to be part of the sentinel surveillance system on hepatitis as well. We already started drafting a protocol of agreement between the faculty of Medicine and MOHP surveillance unit central administration in Cairo. Several meetings were held with of directors locally and centrally and developments are accomplished.
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Minutes of the meeting 2-11-2014
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