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New concept for washing of hands
3/11/2004 18:25

Gucci Go/Shanghai Daily News

Shanghai East Hospital has signed an agreement on hands hygiene with GO-JO, an American company. Shanghai East Hospital is the first in the city to introduce the new concept for hands hygiene, Oriental Morning Post reported yesterday.
A survey conducted by China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDCP) indicates that 78 percent of doctors and 61 percent of nurses in China have never been trained on hands hygiene, which means they don't really know how to wash their hands! The internal infection rate in several hospitals exceeds 50 percent, which leads to over 3,000,000 deaths every year.
Besides the project on cross infection control in Shanghai East Hospital, the CCDCP plans to standardize hands hygiene measures by publishing a handbook on that.