Keeping those hands clean - (Yuma Sun)
February 25, 2008 – 8:12 pmhttp://www.yumasun.com/articles/hand_39922___article.html/hands_washing.html
Dr. Michael Jelinek, infectious disease specialist in Edinburg, Texas, was quoted as saying, “Hand-washing, even with nonantibacterial soap, is probably the best method of preventing the spread of most diseases.”
Hospitals, Jelinek said, have waterless hand-cleaning systems between patients’ rooms; they are used before and after nurses and physicians enter those rooms.
I probably use them upwards of 70 times a day, he said with a laugh. All the hospitals have anonymous monitors who monitor who washes their hands and who doesn’t. That’s part of infection control.
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