After the hospital in Fourways Life , Health Life takes the prevention of infections seriously. This is a key priority and the highest standards of the comprehensive and well-established infection control program are in line with the best international evidence-based practices.
The simplest and most important method of preventing bacterial transmission is effective hand hygiene. All health professionals, patients and hospital visitors should have good hand hygiene.
Hand hygiene is the cornerstone of infection prevention and patient safety. While crucial to Life Healthcare's facilities, it is equally important at home, at work and in the community. Hygiene measures are very important but are often underestimated.
These are the three questions you should answer according to Life Fourways Hospital:
- Why is it so important to wash your hands?
Hands are a major cause of cross-contamination and cross-infection in the home and hospital.
- When should you wash your hands?
- Before: Eat or feed the children. Touch your nose, your eyes or your mouth. Touch your nose, your eyes or your mouth. Apply contact lenses and administer medication or first aid.
- After: go to the bathroom or change the diaper of a child. Management of domestic and domestic animals. Contact with blood or body fluids. Coughing, sneezing or blowing your nose. Contact with a potentially contaminated site and after touching hospital surfaces such as bed rails and door handles.
- Before and after: deal with raw foods, treat a sick person, provided their hands look dirty
3. How should you wash your hands?
Wet your hands, apply soap, rub your hands into a lather, rub them on your hands, between your fingers and around and under your fingernails and hands.
Recent studies show that 60% of South Africans do not wash their hands properly after using the restroom and that 66% of South Africans do not wash their hands with soap. A five-second splash underwater can make your hands cleaner and remove visible dirt, but it's not really effective at removing harmful germs on your hands that can cause infection after using the bathroom, especially in critical times to clean and before handling food. Finally, with hygiene products and good hygiene habits such as hand washing, 75% of all domestic diseases can be prevented.
A 2005-2007 study by Professor Eugene C Cole in the Western Cape Province found that good hygiene habits avoid the following:
- 80% of gastrointestinal infections (including vomiting and diarrhea)
- 70% of respiratory infections (including colds, flu and ear infections)
- 70% of skin infections (abscesses, boils, eczema, impetigo, ringworm, scabies and conjunctivitis).
Did you know?
At the hospital, patients with infectious diseases are isolated to prevent the spread of the disease / infection. It is important that all health professionals and visitors comply with the prescribed precautions.
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