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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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NATIONAL DAY OF HAND HYGIENE. IN SWITZERLAND |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Wednesday, 08 February 2006 |
 Switzerland has just launched a national campaign for hand hygiene and has declared January 26 as the National Day for Hand Hygiene. This effort to tackle hospital-acquired infections is understandable when figures show that every year over 70 000 people are victims of these infections. (Swiss population is ….)
All recent studies clearly demonstrate that good hand hygiene is the first efficient step in reducing infection rate by at least 50%.
Swiss-Noso, composed of microbiologists and the Swiss Health Department initiated this campaign which follows another one launched last October 2005 by the World Health Organisation ( World Campaign for the Security of Patients).
For more information : http://www.bag.admin.ch/dienste/medien/f/index.php
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