ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS OF MICROBIOLOGICAL AIR MONITORING AT MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS

Aim. To study the documents, regulating the content of different air microorganisms in rooms of medical institutions. Materials and methods. Peculiar features of documents acting in the Russian Federation, which regulate microbiological contamination of air in medical institutions were studied. Results. The main drawbacks in standards, which don’t permit to diagnose in a proper way health care-associated infections (HCAI) were revealed. Conclusions. It is necessary to work out unified methods and supplements to sanitary-and-epidemiological rules and standards, allowing to determine the principle requirements for a complex of organizational, treatment-and-prophylactic, sanitary and antiepidemic measures, directed to prevention and reduction of HCAI.