At the one-day Conference on Hospital Infection Control, microbiologists, infection control officers and other experts engaged in lively, fruitful discussions about how to make hospital infection control a practice that…
ARCORA offers a full range of cleaning and hygiene products for hotels, restaurants, hospitals or public institutions. Hotels: TENAS 4IN1, developed for carpet cleaning, takes over the tasks of four…
For decades, the cleaning industry in the more developed countries has been pushing the idea of colour-coding to prevent cross-contamination, but now an organisation has gone one stage further by…
The prestigious Government General Hospital in Chennai is facing massive sanitation problems. The hospital has only 400 toilets to cater to the nearly 70,000 daily visitors. The toilets are not…
Disinfection as a part of the Infection control practice in a hospital includes disinfection of the environment & instruments. Disinfectant procedures therefore need to be preceded by appropriate cleaning protocols…
The three-day seminar sessions were uniquely designed to bring forth cleanliness as a subject to be prioritised in all sectors ranging from hospitals to municipal corporations. Experts deliberated on subjects…
A study carried out at the University of Maryland Medical Centre has found that cleaning an intensive care room that has been occupied by a patient infected with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter…
A major three-year trial led by researchers at University College London, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency, has shown that giving one-to-one feedback to healthcare workers makes them twice…
Does the overpowering stench of drugs and disinfectants in a hospital leave you nauseated. The good news is that some of the top hospitals in Mumbai are spending good money…
In nine out of ten cases, the criteria for choosing a hospital by any individual would be the medical facilities offered therein. However, when the situation is critical, any hospital in the vicinity becomes the first choice and in a life-and-death situation the scope for making a choice would be limited. Given a choice, how many of us would actually look at how clean the hospital is inside-out? Would we go for a private set up rather than a Government one because it is supposed to be “cleaner”? Are all private hospitals actually hygienic or do they just look “clean”? Mohana M explores…