Saturday, 15 October 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
To increase awareness about hand hygiene, the Global Hand Washing Day was observed in the Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences here on Saturday. The institute’s infection control officer Dr Iva Chandola presented an overview of infection control measures taken by healthcare workers in order to reduce the incidence of healthcare acquired infections.
The Head of Department (HoD) of Microbiology, Dr Sulekha Nautiyal delivered a talk on hand hygiene during which the five moments of hand hygiene given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) were discussed. She said that hand hygiene is an important and effective measure to reduce hospital acquired infections in hospital care settings. She said that it was in the 19th century, when Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, first advanced the idea of “hand hygiene” in medical settings. The two most common methods of hand washing and hand rub their steps and duration for each was elaborated in detail on the occasion. A skit was performed by the infection control team on awareness of hand hygiene.
