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Tribune News Network
Doha
AL-AHLI Hospital is holding a series of awareness activities to mark the International Hand Hygiene Day, which is observed annually on May 5.
The activities aim at reminding the staff, physicians and patients about the importance of hand hygiene in ensuring patient’s safety.
The campaign also emphasised the importance of putting glo-germ, a neon gel, on the hands before washing them.
“Maintaining hand hygiene is one of the most important things we can do in health care to prevent illness and it is the easiest thing to do,” said the Director of Pathology &Laboratory Medicine Department at Al-Ahli Hospital and infectious disease specialist Dr Mohammad El Ahmadi.
Snehalata Syed, infection control coordinator at Al-Ahli Hospital, said: “The hand hygiene campaign is held every year at our hospital to bring health care workers and patients together in support of hand hygiene and to reduce the risk of infection”.
She added, “The theme for this year’s World Hand Hygiene Day is ‘Clean care for All, it’s in your hands’. Poor hand hygiene leads to transmission of germs including of those resistant to antibiotics, which can expose patients to the risk of fatal infections.”
According to Syed, with the support of the management and infection control staff, demonstrations on hand hygiene were held for each unit of the hospital.
Doha
AL-AHLI Hospital is holding a series of awareness activities to mark the International Hand Hygiene Day, which is observed annually on May 5.
The activities aim at reminding the staff, physicians and patients about the importance of hand hygiene in ensuring patient’s safety.
The campaign also emphasised the importance of putting glo-germ, a neon gel, on the hands before washing them.
“Maintaining hand hygiene is one of the most important things we can do in health care to prevent illness and it is the easiest thing to do,” said the Director of Pathology &Laboratory Medicine Department at Al-Ahli Hospital and infectious disease specialist Dr Mohammad El Ahmadi.
Snehalata Syed, infection control coordinator at Al-Ahli Hospital, said: “The hand hygiene campaign is held every year at our hospital to bring health care workers and patients together in support of hand hygiene and to reduce the risk of infection”.
She added, “The theme for this year’s World Hand Hygiene Day is ‘Clean care for All, it’s in your hands’. Poor hand hygiene leads to transmission of germs including of those resistant to antibiotics, which can expose patients to the risk of fatal infections.”
According to Syed, with the support of the management and infection control staff, demonstrations on hand hygiene were held for each unit of the hospital.
