May 5 is International Clean Your Hands Day

To support this major campaign the WHO provides a suite of hand hygiene improvement tools and materials for participating hospitals that have been created using evidence, rigorous testing and leading expertise. These practical tools help to improve and sustain a multimodal hand hygiene strategy. 

First Global Patient Safety Challenge

 
The goal of Clean Care is Safer Care is to ensure that infection control is acknowledged universally as a solid and essential basis towards patient safety and supports the reduction of health care-associated infections and their consequences.

As a global campaign to improve hand hygiene among health-care workers, SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands is a major component of Clean Care is Safer Care. It advocates the need to improve and sustain hand hygiene practices of health-care workers at the right times and in the right way to help reduce the spread of potentially life-threatening infections in health-care facilities.

For downloads to distribute and to visit the WHO website on Clean Hands day: CLICK HERE