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Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.
C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.
Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?
Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.
Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Sunday, 01 May 2005 |
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14 April 2005
WHO,
World Health Organisation, reports that hospitals in Geneva have known success in combating hospital
acquired infections.
“Clean
hands” thanks to a simple and efficient hydro-alcoholic solution is the golden
rule in all Geneva Health Centers. Since the launching of this campaign for
clean hands in 1995, the average rate of hospital acquired infections has
dropped by 50%.
WHO encourages
all hospitals throughout the world to follow the example of Geneva’s hospitals.
Swiss campaign for hands hygiene.
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