STOP ! INFECTION Clean Your Hands Day4th May 2018

1. STOP ! INFECTION
Clean Your Hands Day
4th May 2018Dr.T.V.Rao MD
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2. Program Dedicated to
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3. CLEAN YOUR HANDS CAMPAIN
BY WHO
• Each year, the World Health
Organization (WHO) SAVE LIVES:
Clean Your Hands campaign
aims to bring people together in
support of hand hygiene
improvement globally on or
around 4 or 5th May . In 2018,
the campaign focuses on
supporting the prevention of
sepsis in health care.
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4. About World Hand Hygiene
Day
• World Hand Hygiene Day, not
to be confused with Global
Hand-washing Day, is
celebrated on the fifth day of
May every year.
• The World Health Organization
(WHO) started the SAVE LIVES:
Clean Your Hands global
campaign in 2009 as an
extension of the WHO First
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5. First World Hygiene Day
•May 5th, 2009 was the
day when the first World
Hand Hygiene Day was
celebrated to further
this cause and bring
awareness to the vast
majority of people who
often ignore the
importance of cleansing
their hands regularly.4/28/2018 5Dr.T.V.Rao MD @ Hand Hygiene

6. Clean Care is Safer Care
work.
•The campaign aims to
galvanise action at the
point of care to
demonstrate that
hand hygiene is the
entrance door for
reducing health care-
associated infection
and patient safety.4/28/2018 6Dr.T.V.Rao MD @ Hand Hygiene

7. WHO Urges
• WHO urges ministries of health,
health facility leaders, IPC
leaders, health workers and
patient advocacy groups to take
action on hand hygiene to
prevent sepsis in health. WHO
also invites health facilities to
join the global campaign to
demonstrate on-going
commitment to hand hygiene
and IPC .
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9. STOP Clean Hands Day
•It's time for patients
and providers to
come together for
clean hands – STOP!
Clean Your Hands
Day returns Friday,
May 4th, 2018.
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10. Clean your hands:
THE BUG STOPS HERE!
Cleaning your hands
• This year's theme is Clean your
hands: TThis year's theme is Clean
your hands: THE BUG STOPS HERE!
Cleaning your hands is one of the
best ways to prevent infection. We
want the bug to stop here. Join us
this year as we ask everyone to
STOP! Clean Your Hands to stop bugs
in their tracks. is one of the best ways
to prevent infection. We want the
bug to stop here. Join us this year as
we ask everyone to STOP! Clean Your
Hands to stop bugs in their tracks.
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11. HOW GOOD WE ARE IN HAND
WASHING
• Lack of awareness regarding
the most frequent source of
germs in a hospital among
doctors and nurses was
71.43% and 67.69%,
respectively. Inadequate
hand wash time is another
important issue of
awareness among doctors
(85.71%)
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12. How properly we are doing Hand
washing ?
• While inadequate hand rub
time was the main concern
among nurses (64.61%) as
well as technicians
(53.13%). Among the
technicians, 68.75%
responded incorrectly
regarding the rate of
reduction of HAI by HH
while it is 44.61% among
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13. Soap water and common sense the best
tools to reduce and prevent infctions
• Handwashing with soap is the most
effective and inexpensive way to
prevent death for millions of children
in developing countries every year.
Despite its lifesaving potential,
handwashing with soap is seldom
practiced.
• Even in the United States,
where soap is plentiful,
handwashing doesn’t
happen as often as it
should.4/28/2018 13Dr.T.V.Rao MD @ Hand Hygiene

14. My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
•The My 5 Moments
for Hand Hygiene
approach defines
the key moments
when health-care
workers should
perform hand
hygiene.4/28/2018 14Dr.T.V.Rao MD @ Hand Hygiene

15. My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
• This evidence-based, field-tested, user-centred
approach is designed to be easy to learn, logical and
applicable in a wide range of settings.
• This approach recommends health-care workers to
clean their hands
• before touching a patient,
• before clean/aseptic procedures,
• after body fluid exposure/risk,
• after touching a patient, and
• after touching patient surroundings.
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17. Each Step of Hand hygiene
saves lives
•Each hand hygiene
action contributes to
preventing sepsis in
health care: let's act
together, ‘It's in your
hands – prevent sepsis
in health care’.
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18. We all the Importance But
truth is ????
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19. HAND WASHING SIMPLE ACT SAVES
MANY LIVES
ARE WE DOING ?????
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20. WHO hopes to maintain this
global movement a
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21. •Program Created by Dr.T.V.Rao MD for
Gobal awarenss on Hand hygiene and
saving lives with simple practice of
hand washing
• email
•doctrtvrao@gmail.com
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