Fwd: twitter and Facebook about 5 May starting

[Dr. Anil Kumar]

Dear Friends

 

Forwarding a letter from WHO Geneva on Hand Hygiene Campaign which is being organized world over on 5th May (Global Hand Hygiene Campaign Day). You may like to see the links in the mail and adopt the concept in your day to day practice for better patient care and infection control.

 

With regards

 

Dr. Anil Kumar

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "ALLEGRANZI, Benedetta" <alleg...@who.int>
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:32 pm
Subject: twitter and Facebook about 5 May starting
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Dear all, This is to let you know that today our communication office starts to spread the below messages through twitter (@WHO) and the WHO Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/worldhealthorganization). In line with our call this year, they emphasize on patient participation.   You are very welcome to translate them in your languages and send them through your network. Many thanks for spreading and for all your support this year once again for 5 May! Benedetta   Twitter Every year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are infected by germs that are transmitted in health-care settings #HandHygiene Most common infections originating in hospitals: urinary tract and surgical site infections, pneumonia, blood infections #HandHygiene Care-givers may transmit germs from one patient to another or from the hospital environment to a patient #HandHygiene How to reduce the risk of infections while providing health care? Good #HandHygiene at #5Moments LINK to Facebook post on 5 moments poster Use an effective hand rub solution or clean running water, soap and clean towels when providing care to patients #5Moments You represent, work in a hospital? Here’s how the hospital can assess how well it’s doing in #HandHygiene #5Moments http://www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/hhsa_framework_October_2010.pdf A touching moment when you had to ask a doctor, nurse to clean hands before touching a family member of yours at any of the #5Moments? Any good experience when your care providers made you feel safe by practicing good #Hand Hygiene?   Facebook A) The solution for safer hands Picture of bottle of hand rub solution – Use a hand rub solution to clean your hands when providing care to a patient or family member. You may find an effective solution in pharmacies. B) Your 5 moments for hand hygiene http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Your_5_Moments_For_Hand_Hygiene_Poster.pdf 1.      before touching a patient, sick family member 2.      before using clean, aseptic procedures 3.      after exposure to body fluids such as blood, urine, diarrhoea 4.      after touching a patient, sick family member 5.      after touching the surroundings of a patient such as bed, bedside table I you clean your hands after touching one patient and you touch another one immediately afterwards without touching anything else, you just need one hand hygiene action between the two patients. C) How can you best handrub? http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Hand_Hygiene_When_and_How_Leaflet.pdf http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/tools/workplace_reminders/en/index.html D) How can you best handwash? http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Hand_Hygiene_When_and_How_Leaflet.pd   Benedetta Allegranzi, MD Technical Lead, Clean Care is Safer Care and Special Projects, http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/ Patient Safety Programme, HIS Room 4174 World Health Organization 20, Av Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Tel +41 22 791 2689 Fax +41 22 791 1388 To improve and sustain hand hygiene and help save lives by reducing health care-associated infection in your health-care facility, register with WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands and be part of this exciting global movement. http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/register/en/index.html

 

 

Dr. Anil Kumar
Chief Medical Officer   NFSG   
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