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We need to pay attention to health care, especially for sick people; protecting and restoring health is very necessary. For patients, in addition to spending more time resting, nutrition also...
Thursday 25 January 2024
Announcement of Public Holidays - New Year 2024
Dear valued patients, City International Hospital would like to announce the hospital opening hours during Public Holidays – New Year 2024 (Giap Thin Tet) as below:
Monday 22 January 2024
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The Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine warned that the coming Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays and spring festive season, when trading and travel...
Tuesday 26 December 2023
2024 New Year's Holiday Announcement
In observance of New Year’s Day, we would like to thank you for your support and cooperation in the year 2024 and look forward to receiving your continuing assistance...
Wednesday 29 November 2023
The journey of two hospitals in Vietnam first to qualify for coveted AACI accreditation
Nearly 2 years attentively nurturing & more than 6 months intensively executing, to be proudly become the two hospitals firstly in Vietnam certified for American...

Demonstrate your support for World Hand Hygiene Day on 5th May 2019 and help us spread the message “Clean care for all - It’s in your hands”

The campaign aims at limiting the risk of spreading germs and subsequently transmitting infections, through informational and educational actions. Health workers and partners in promoting clean hands, as a key intervention for preventing the spread of healthcare-associated infections. The 2019 Hand Hygiene Day commemorated on May 5, was an annual global campaign to state the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare and also create awareness in support of hand hygiene improvement globally.

City International Hospital is always keen to participate in this initiative as patient safety is at the heart of our commitment to the public – it is a way of life for every staff at the hospital. Health care-associated infections, infections acquired during health care delivery, are a risk factor for developing sepsis . Effective hand hygiene plays a key role in their prevention. When we improve our hand hygiene compliance, we are reducing the likelihood of infection transmission - thereby promoting safer care and saving lives. This will certainly reflect in better patient care and enhanced treatment outcomes.” 

Theme: “Clean care for all - It’s in your hands” 

Dr. Le Duc Tho, Dermatology at City International Hospital, said: “The hand is the most viable and common means of transmitting infection, there are billions of germs on our hands which cannot be seen with the eyes but if kept clean diseases can be averted. Studies have established that about one-third of patients that die in hospitals die from infection, it is, therefore, a huge burden that needs to be addressed. Doctors and nurses transmit to patients, patients transmit to doctors and nurses, and it can be acquired from the environment, but hand hygiene could help reduce the spread of such infections."

World Hand Hygiene Day is an annual event designed by The World Health Organization to promote awareness of good hand hygiene. The 2019 Hand Hygiene Day commemorated on May 5, was an annual global campaign to state the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare and also create awareness in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. 

 

When health-care workers should perform hand hygiene? 

The My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene approach defines the key moments when health-care workers should perform hand hygiene. This approach recommends health-care workers to clean their hands:

  • before touching a patient,
  • before clean/aseptic procedures,
  • after body fluid exposure/risk,
  • after touching a patient, and
  • after touching patient surroundings.

The My 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene approach defines the key moments when health-care workers should perform hand hygiene. 

WHO calls on everyone to be inspired by the global movement to achieve universal health coverage, i.e. achieving better health and well-being for all people at all ages, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. 

Infection Prevention and Control, including hand hygiene, is critical to achieve universal health coverage as it is a practical and evidence-based approach with demonstrated impact on quality of care and patient safety across all levels of the health system.

  City International Hospital

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