Where it Started?
December 1, 1988
On December 1, 1988, as the country’s response to the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group on the Regional Information Network on Antimicrobial Resistance that a surveillance program be initiated among member states of the Western Pacific Region to contain and prevent resistance to antimicrobials, the Committee…
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Setting up the Surveillance Framework
January 1, 1993 12:00 am
The program decided to implement sentinel hospital-based type of surveillance using tertiary level hospitals of the Department of Health as sentinel sites with at least one hospital per region. An in-depth data are gathered in a “community” of sentinel sites and the resulting analysis is used to inform programs and…
Read moreData Collection of Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Program
1994
All surveillance data are derived from results of aerobic bacterial culture from patients seen from all sentinel sites. Before the year 1994, Data submission was initially entered using standardized ARS data report forms, causing significant delay in the submission of surveillance data and also affecting the analysis of collated data….
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December 8, 1994
The data files of ARSP were started in 1988 by then Senior Science Research Specialist Ms. Susan Tan. She was at the helm from 1988 to 1994. In 1988, the first year of implementation of the program, the data files that were available were data from September 1988 to…
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