Mahatma Gandhi once said, ‘Sanitation is more important than independence.’ Global data clearly highlights his view – six billion people in the world lack adequate sanitation. That is especially the case when it comes to safely disposing of human excrement, a process that is not handled safely enough in many places.
Sick people are exposed to increased risk. Droplets, aerosols, direct contact between patients, hospital beds and sheets, or poor hand hygiene practice by healthcare workers – any of these transmission routes can cause infection. Inadequately managed human waste simply aggravates this situation. It brings with it the risk of HAIs, putting the health of hospital personnel and patients at significant risk.
REASSESSING BEDPAN MANAGEMENT
For any hospital operator, managing healthcare waste is an integral part of hospital hygiene and infection control. Proper bedpan management is a part of this, a process that often involves:
TopLine – A HIGH-PERFORMANCE HYGIENE SOLUTION
For the reasons mentioned above, it is vital that any washer-disinfector used in a hospital provides uncompromising safety for patients and hospital staff. MEIKO’s TopLine washer-disinfectors are packed with powerful patented disinfection technology to provide the guaranteed hygiene standards that patients expect.
These MEIKO washer-disinfectors aim to eliminate the risk of infections stemming from hospitals’ dirty utility rooms. This is achieved using a range of types of installation suited to different healthcare facilities.
Care utensils are dried and cooled using filtered air and all water lines are disinfected to prevent re-contamination. The control software used in the washer-disinfectors employs temperature sensors and integrated data analysis to make the disinfection process easy to manage.
Proper waste-disposal management in healthcare facilities is key to improving hygiene safety and efficiency.
After all, what truly matters is confidence in your hospital or healthcare facility’s commitment to providing safe, high-quality care to patients, staff and the public.
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Source: Oxford Academic, KNIP (KnowHow Infection Prevention) Consultancy, MEIKO, Science Direct
