2024-04-20 09:47:32
Boryeong City held a hand washing experience event jointly with medical institutions. On the 19th, Boryeong City Public Health Center held a hand-washing experience event to prevent medical infection in the first floor lobby of Boryeong Asan Hospital together with Boryeong Asan Hospital.
This event was organized to promote the importance of hand hygiene and promote hand washing to protect patient safety in medical institutions, prevent the spread of infection, and create a clean medical environment.
About 300 people, including medical staff, patients, guardians, and hospital users, participated in the event, which included hands-washing experiences, proper hand-washing education, and distribution of infectious disease prevention promotional materials.
In particular, to help visitors feel the importance of hand washing, fluorescent substances were placed directly on the hands of the visitors, and they were taught the correct way to wash their hands through a comparative experience before and after hand washing, which received a great response from the visitors.
In addition, the city designated April 26 to May 31 as an intensive publicity period for preventing medical infections, actively encouraged 116 medical institutions in the area to participate in the campaign, produced 600 posters on the 6 steps of proper hand washing, and distributed them to medical institutions and senior centers by the end of April. Is expected.
The city is pursuing a project to improve infectious disease prevention behavior in 2024, and will analyze the handwashing behavior survey conducted in March by the end of April and provide customized infectious disease prevention education by life cycle such as infants, students, adults, and the elderly from May to September. I plan to do it.
Jeon Kyeong-hee, director of the public health center, said, “Hand washing in medical facilities not only protects patients, but also protects the health of medical personnel themselves. By practicing proper hand washing, we prevent the spread of diseases not only to medical personnel, but also to family members and local residents, making medical institutions safe from infection. “I hope this will be an opportunity to create,” he said.
Queen Reporter Hana Choi Photo: Boryeong City
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2024-04-20 09:47:32