SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
Together, we can accelerate action to prevent infections and antimicrobial resistance in health care and build a culture of safety and quality in which hand hygiene improvement is given high priority.
Hand hygiene saves millions of lives every year when performed at the right moments during health care delivery. It is also a smart investment that offers exceptional return for all the resources invested. Clean care is a sign of respect to those who seek care, and it protects health and other workers who provide that care.
Why is sharing knowledge about hand hygiene still so important?
Because it helps stop the spread of harmful germs
The United Nations, World Health Organisation calls on everyone to be inspired by the global movement to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), i.e. achieving better health and well-being for all people at all ages, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. Infection Prevention and Control, including hand hygiene, is critical to achieve UHC as it is a practical and evidence-based approach with demonstrated impact on quality of care and patient safety across all levels of the health system.
Health care associated infections (HAIs) are among the most frequent adverse events occurring in the context of health service delivery – 136 million cases of health care-associated antibiotic resistant infections occur worldwide every year.
