Posts Tagged ‘HANDHYGIENE’
Infection prevention and contro
Hand hygiene is the cornerstone of infection prevention and control (IPC). When timely and optimally performed, it reduces healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), antimicrobial resistance, health costs, and saves lives. Poor compliance with hand Hygiene practices remains both a problem and a challenge for IPC practitioners all over the world. The under-5 mortality rate in Uganda is…
Read MoreHand hygiene and skin health
Hand hygiene is the most important and effective procedure for the prevention and control of infections. In caring for sick people, the hands constitute a vehicle for the transmission of pathogens, either through direct contact from person to person, or indirectly through previously contaminated objects, which can subsequently contaminate the patient. Hand hygiene is a…
Read More10 Reasons for us to participate in the WHO “Save Lives: Clean Your Hands” campaign
Keeping your hands clean at the right time saves your life. Maintaining hand hygiene in health care over the past few years has saved millions of lives. Hand hygiene is a quality indicator of a safe health care system. Health care issues such as health-care-related infections are often intangible but still occurring, and these issues…
Read MoreCleaning care for everyone is in your hands
Nowadays, many medical staff still do not really realize the importance of hand hygiene. The compliance of hand hygiene (in short: washing hands at the time of hand hygiene as required) is still very low. Some people have a pair of gloves to contact many patients, some people only change gloves and do not wash…
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