Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 3rd October 2024 Issue no. 1132

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WHO publishes new guide on infection prevention in healthcare settings

The World Health Organisation has published a new operational guide called: ‘Water, sanitation & hygiene & infection prevention & control measures for infectious diarrhoea in healthcare settings’.

This guide addresses water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), food safety management, and infection prevention & control measures that should be implemented in healthcare settings to prevent and control transmission of infections causing infectious diarrhoea.

Key advice in this guide includes evaluation and improvement of key WASH infrastructure and waste management systems; implementing food safety management measures for the safe handling, preparation and serving of food; and infection prevention & control measures for managing patients who present to healthcare settings with symptoms of suspected infectious diarrhoea. It also includes advice for identifying, investigating and managing patients who develop infectious diarrhoea as a healthcare-associated infection.

The publication is available here 

26th September 2024