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ON May 23rd, 2008, the French Ministry of Health launched a national hand cleanliness campaign targeting health care workers, patients, and the general public. The campaign emphasizes that proper hand hygiene is the key element in preventing and controlling nosocomial infections.
It is critical that a through cleansing of one’s hands with a liquid alcohol solution containing an emollient to protect the skin precedes all health care treatments, no matter where they are carried out. All health care establishments throughout the country should see to it that these solutions are available at patient’s bed. Health care workers would also be required to carry a small bottle of disinfectant in the pockets of their uniform. |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Wednesday, 08 November 2006 |
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 QUEBEC -- Health Minister Philippe Couillard announced that the provincial cabinet has asked the coroner's office to look into 11 C. difficile deaths at the Honoré Mercier hospital in St. Hyacinthe.
The Ministry declared that obviously there were deviations in the basic hygiene rules.
It must be remembered that the Direction de la Santé Publique recently published a National Plan for the prevention and control of hospital-acquired infections.
In all Quebec hospitals were these rules are continuously and strictly applied the rate of infection has significantly declined.
Jean-Pierre Menard, lawyer, also noticed that the Saint-Hyacinthe epidemic was not signaled by the Santé Publique as it should have been, but by the medias.
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