HOSPITAL HYGIENE How clean is clean? It’s a difficult question to answer. Surfaces come under non critical items as they come in contact with intact skin (Spaulding classification 1968).Heavy environmental contamination may contribute to outbreaks in hospitals.. Eradication of VRE in burns unit following intensive environmental decontamination protocol implementation has been reported.
.Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) outbreaks transmission from ultrasonic nebulizers and contaminated ventilation grills. Environmental cleanliness (EC) is of paramount importance in this era of multidrug resistance infections and no antibiotic armamentarium is in the pipeline. Routine surface disinfection in healthcare is grossly inadequate.Resonsiblity is left to the discretion of the housekeeping/ environmental service staff(ESS).The ESS often transfer domestic knowledge to the hospital…
