HAND-WASHING KEY TO PREVENTING INFECTIONS IN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS - UN AGENCY

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HAND-WASHING KEY TO PREVENTING INFECTIONS IN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS - UN AGENCY
New York, May 5 2013 6:00PM
Hundreds of millions of infections could be prevented if health-care
professionals, patients and their families, wash their hands with
alcohol-based rub or soap and water before and after touching patients
and their surroundings, the United Nations health agency today said
marking Hand Hygiene Day.

"Health care-associated infections are a major burden around the world
and threaten the safety and care of patients,"
<"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/hand_hygiene_20130503/en/index.html">said
UN World Health Organization (WHO) Envoy for Patient Safety, Liam
Donaldson. "I urge the health care and patient communities to take
firm and decisive action to save lives from this preventable harm."

The WHO global campaign "SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands" recommends that
people wash their hands during five key moments: before touching a
patient, before cleaning and aseptic procedures, after contact with
body fluids, after touching a patient and after touching patient
surroundings.

Since its launch in 2009, more than 15,700 health facilities with more
than 9 million health workers in 168 countries have registered with
the campaign, according to WHO.

"Health care-associated infections usually occur when germs are
transferred by health-care providers' hands touching the patient," the
UN agency said, often leading to significant physical and
psychological suffering and sometimes death of patients, and financial
losses for health systems.

Of every 100 hospitalized patients, at least seven in developed and 10
in developing countries will acquire a health care-associated
infection, according to UN figures. Among critically ill and
vulnerable patients in intensive care units, that figure rises to
around 30 per 100.

Hundreds of millions of patients every year are affected by health
care-associated infections, WHO reported. The most common include
urinary tract and surgical site infections, pneumonia and infections
of the bloodstream.

"More than half of these infections could be prevented by caregivers
properly cleaning their hands at key moments in patient care,"
according to the Geneva-based agency.

According to a new survey conducted by WHO and its Collaborating
Centre on Patient Safety, the University of Geneva Hospital, patient
participation is considered a useful strategy for improving hand
hygiene and creating a positive patient safety climate in the
facilities implementing it.

Patients and their family members can participate by asking health
workers who are about to touch them to clean their hands and thanking
them when they do, and asking for information about any existing
initiatives that involve patients at the health facility.

"Patient participation can be a powerful tool to achieve improvements
in health care," said Dr. Benedetta Allegranzi, team lead in the WHO
Patient Safety Clean Care is Safer Care programme. "Although the
ability of patients to be involved will vary in different cultures and
situations, family members of patients often help with caregiving and
they are some of the best advocates for their loved ones. That makes
them good allies in this process."


May 5 2013 6:00PM
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