World Hand Hygiene Day

May 5th, 2023 with a symbolic plea: the fifth day of the fifth month in the year stands for the five fingers on our hand.The yearly World Hand Hygiene Day aims to maintain global promotion, visibility and sustainability of hand hygiene in health care.

Hands are not only our most important working tool, they are also a frequent transmission route for pathogens.​

About 80% of infectious diseases are transmitted by unclean hands touching contaminated surfaces. 1 The pathogens most commonly known here include viral pathogens, such as cold and flu viruses, as well as bacterial pathogens, which can lead to gastrointestinal infections, among other things.​

Also droplet and aerosol infections, such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, might be spread via the hands. ​

Regular and correctly performed hand disinfection is not only crucial for minimizing the risk of infections, but also promotes a sustainable culture of safety and quality in terms of the ideal infection prevention.​

As healthcare workers touch their patients many hundreds of times a day, it is their responsibility to safeguard this connection when accompanying patients on the road to recovery. How? By taking the few seconds of disinfecting their hands, so they provide their patients with the feeling that they are in good hands worldwide everyday.Because hand hygiene and clean care is a signal of respect for people in need of care, protects the healthcare professionals who provide that necessary care, as well as everyone in everyday settings around the world every day.

When performed at the right moments in patient care areas, hand hygiene saves millions of lives every year. Those 5 moments of hand disinfection have been defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Three main components combined make this place highly infection-critica: patient, medical staff and treatment!​

The uncomplicated availability of hand disinfectants is crucial. Adding to decisive key factors for successful hand disinfection are the use of the disinfectant at the right moments while using the right technique.​

schülke offers a complete and compatible range of products: from effective and gentle hand disinfection and cleaning to skin protection and care. Efficacy of the individual products – also in combined use – has been confirmed in numerous studies and meets national and international requirements. To make you feel safe every day.​

Supporting materials and information on hand disinfection at the point of care available via download.

Source:

¹ National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID) and National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED), http://www.cdc.gov/CDCTV/HandsTogether/