For the 3rd year in a row, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is launching its hand hygiene campaign on May 5, declared as «hand hygiene day».
The goal of «Clean Care is Safer Care» is to ensure that infection control is acknowledged universally as a solid and essential basis towards patient safety and supports the reduction of health care-associated infections and their consequences.
It advocates the need to improve and sustain hand hygiene practices of health-care workers at the right times and in the right way to help reduce the spread of potentially life-threatening infections in health-care facilities.
Activities are being organized by most European health care departments and hospitals.
- In France, half of all hospitals participated in last year’s campaign and more centers have registered to join in this year.
- Here in Québec, this campaign seems lost in the North Atlantic Ocean mists, and the ADVIN message sounds like a fog horn.
- In Canada, the campaign is run under the program «safer health care now». A Toronto hospital, North York General, has chosen May 5 to promote its own hand hygiene program and advocate for quality care to the patients.
«Encouraging hospitals and health-care facilities to adopt the WHO 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene will contribute to a greater awareness and understanding of the importance of hand hygiene. Our vision for the next decade is to encourage this awareness and to promote the need for improved compliance and sustainability in hand hygiene practice at the point of patient care.» Professor Didier Pittet.
Director, Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine
External Programme Lead, WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care
http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en/index.html http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/
«http://www.saferhealthcarenow.ca/EN/HandHygiene/Pages/default.aspx.
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