Kolkata, Oct 24 (UNI) Poor hand hygiene leads to germ transmission including of those germs resistant to antibiotics.
This can put patients at risk of potentially fatal health care-associated infections (HAI). Yet, in some facilities, a staggering 90 per cent of health care workers do not clean their hands effectively.
According to World Health Organization (WHO), healthcare-associated infections usually occur when germs are transferred by health-care providers’ hands touching the patient. Of every 100 hospitalized patients, at least 7 in high-income and 10 in low-/middle-income countries will acquire a healthcare-associated infection.