HA’s strategy: Designated healthcare team in designated location
Patients with C. auris will be transferred to Kowloon Central and Kowloon West Clusters for isolation as far as possible where they will be cared for by a designated healthcare team. Public hospitals adopt a risk-based strategy to provide screening for higher risk inpatients. If a ward once received a C. auris patient who is associated with nosocomial infection, or had an outbreak before, discharge screening for patients in that ward will be conducted before returning to Residential Care Homes for Elderly (RCHE) to avoid any outbreak. HA has stepped up the cleaning frequency of air grills of air conditioners in inpatient wards. Hospitals where C. auris cases were found also enhance sentinal surveillance of air grills of air conditioners for early detection and to avoid outbreaks in inpatient wards.
People can remain colonised with C. auris for months. To shorten the duration of carriage and decrease the risk of C. auris infection, HA has enhanced cooperation with the Centre for Health Protection, a 3-month decolonisation therapy of Manuka honey bath and probiotics would be provided for patients who are colonised with C. auris subject to case-by-case assessment. Residents in RCHE may carry C. auris too. The Community Geriatric Assessment Team provides support to RCHE to decolonise residents as far as possible.
People can remain colonised with C. auris for months. To shorten the duration of carriage and decrease the risk of C. auris infection, HA has enhanced cooperation with the Centre for Health Protection, a 3-month decolonisation therapy of Manuka honey bath and probiotics would be provided for patients who are colonised with C. auris subject to case-by-case assessment. Residents in RCHE may carry C. auris too. The Community Geriatric Assessment Team provides support to RCHE to decolonise residents as far as possible.