Every year, the World Health Organization's awareness campaign “ SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” aims to highlight the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare and stimulate global support for its improvement.
The central message of the initiative highlights the need for hand washing at the right time and in the right way, especially by healthcare workers.
Sharing knowledge of the importance of hand hygiene helps avoid the transmission of dangerous biological agents (primarily viruses and bacteria).
Healthcare-associated infections are among the most frequent adverse events that occur in patient management: more than 130 million healthcare-associated antibiotic-resistant infections are estimated to occur worldwide every year.
Infection prevention and control, which includes the practice of hand hygiene, are essential to improve the quality of care and patient safety at all levels of the healthcare system, from primary to specialist care.
With concerted actions, interventions aimed at preventing infections and antibiotic resistance can be speeded up, building a culture of safety and quality of care.
