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- Public Health Inspectors located at offices in Dryden, Fort Frances and Kenora
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Infection Control
75 D Van Horne Ave
Dryden, ON
P8N 2B2
Dryden, ON
P8N 2B2
807-223-3301
1-807-468-7109
Toll-Free: 1-888-404-4231
Fax: 807-223-5754
Mon-Fri 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Last Updated: Dec 27, 2024: Suggest an edit
Application
Rabies Control
- Requires completed application, available at office or online
- Can be dropped off or faxed to Public Health Inspector
Eligibility / Target Population
No restrictions
Fees
None
Contacts
Sandra Krikke - Infectious Diseases Manager
807-223-3301 * skrikke@nwhu.on.ca
807-223-3301 * skrikke@nwhu.on.ca
Languages
English
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
Description of Services
Infection Control in Institutions
- Inspects of group housing facilities to ensure infection control programs are in place including day care centres, homes for the aged, hospitals and nursing homes
- Annually inspects boarding houses, migrant housing and residential facilities for the aged and those requiring special care
- Provides input for infection control committees and programs within institutions
- Reports on and advises about management of communicable disease outbreaks from hospitals and outpatient clinics
- Ensures infection control policies are practised in places where a risk of blood exists including body-piercing and tattoo parlours, hairdresser and barber shops, electrolysis and aesthetic clinics
- Infection Control Committees
- Northwestern Ontario Regional Infection Control Committee (RICC)
- Northwestern Ontario Regional Infection Control Network (RICN)
- Ontario Core Competencies Working Group: Infection Prevention and Control
- Ontario Pandemic Flu Planning Committee
- Provides a lyme disease surveillance program to detect incidence of disease
- Assesses and tests ticks found on humans to determine risk exposure
- Investigates every animal bite with human exposure within 18 hours
- Ensures suspect animals are confined
- Releases the post exposure prophylaxis vaccine to health provider for administration to individuals exposed to a suspected rabid animal
- Provides information and education to increase public awareness
- Focuses on protective measures for individuals to limit risk factors
- Provides mosquito and human surveillance
Last Updated: Dec 27, 2024: Suggest an edit
