Global Hand Hygiene Day
Health is considered as the basis for the development of economic and social activities of a society, because a healthy and healthy society can defend its interests and rights well and take steps towards its lofty goals.
A society that cares about the category of health actually deals with various diseases and by raising the level of health and ability of people, it causes people to live longer.
Every year, hundreds of millions of people around the world are infected with hospital infections and some die, or significantly from other severe diseases and infections, such as Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin, or infectious diseases that occur as a result of the care provided, such as resistance. They get infected with antibiotics. Health workers reduce the pollution burden by observing hand hygiene while caring for the patient. In order to achieve the strategy of complying with 5 hand hygiene situations, hospitals are trying to change attitudes and behavior towards this health measure with more awareness.
Improving hand hygiene to prevent healthcare-associated infections:
The implementation of hand hygiene instructions in medical centers compiled by the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education should be monitored and monitored in the departments. It should be noted that washing hands alone is the most important way to prevent hospital infections. It is recommended to wash hands with regular soaps or face antimicrobials. Washing hands with ordinary soaps and rinsing causes microorganisms to be mechanically removed from the skin, and hand washing with antimicrobial products, in addition to mechanical removal of microbes, kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth.
The skin of the hands of medical workers has resident microorganisms and temporary types. Most of the microbes living on the skin are located in the surface layers, but about 10 to 20% of them are located in the deep layers of the epidermis, which are not removed after washing hands with ordinary soaps, but are usually killed or inhibited by antimicrobial substances. be made Washing hands with regular soap will remove temporary germs from the skin.
Items that should be washed are:
• During contact with patients and before preparing patients’ medicines
• Before caring for vulnerable patients such as infants and people with severe immune system suppression
• Before taking aggressive actions
• After touching objects that are likely to be contaminated with pathogenic microbes or after caring for patients who may be colonized with microbes that are particularly important in terms of epidemiology, such as bacteria resistant to several types of antibiotics.
• Before and after contact with the wound
• After removing the gloves.
The methods of observing hand hygiene are:
A – Hand rub method:
In order to disinfect hands, using alcohol-based liquid solutions for hand rub, pour a sufficient amount of the solution in your palm and act according to the infection control and hand hygiene instructions.
B – The correct way to wash hands with soap and water Hand Wash:
• If possible, always use clean, flowing, tap water.
• Moisten your hands first with water, then rub your hands together using soap to cover all the surfaces of your hands.
• Rub the palms of the hands and between the fingers together using circular motions.
• Rinse hands completely.
• Dry your hands completely with a clean cloth towel or a disposable paper towel.
• Close the faucet with the same towel or paper towel used, and then throw the towel into the dirty laundry bin for re-washing, or if it is a disposable towel, throw it in the trash.
