AMR Skopje - 18 November 2014
European Antibiotic Awareness Day celebrated at the Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the SEE Health Network
The European Antibiotic Awareness Day was celebrated at the Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the SEE Health Network, held November 18, 2014 in Skopje, within the Macedonian presidency of the South-Eastern European Health Network. The Meeting was attended by ministers of health and high-level officials of health authorities of the SEEHN Member States and the Regional Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab.
(photo credit: Daniel Popadinovski, 2014)
The Minister of Health, Mr Nikola Todorov and the WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab have congratulated the EAAD to the present ministers and high level officials, acknowledging its importance and necessity for further efforts in rational antibiotic use and fighting antimicrobial resistance.
Mr Todorov has highlighted that the SEE Health Network works on this very important challenge in the 21st century through the SEEHN Regional Health Development Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, in Sofia Bulgaria, committing technical expertise and active collaboration in the field. Congratulating the Celebration of EAAD for the seventh time, Mr Todorov expressed the honour for the presence of Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, the founder of the EAAD during her leadership of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm, Sweden, expressing gratitude for this excellent initiative for reverting the negative trends in antimicrobial resistance globally and in Europe as well.
(photo credit: Daniel Popadinovski, 2014)
Greeting the SEEHN Member States officials, Dr Jakab has expressed the gratitude and satisfaction from the success of the established EAAD and its celebration as pan-European initiative, not only in the EU Member States, but also in the EU candidate countries, and the countries of the former Soviet Union. The data gathered on the antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance – now available for a wider number of countries, represents a very powerful tool for further policy actions, in this global challenge.
The video sequence of the two opening statements, can be viewed at the link below:
Since its establishment in 2008, EAAD has been celebrated in the country as collaborative initiative between the Ministry of Health, the Institute for Public Health, the Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology at the Medical Faculty of Skopje, the research think-tank “Studiorum”, and other academic and professional associations and organizations. More details on the past activities can be found at:
