Write a letter to the cleaning manager of the hospital for cleaning the mess spread in the government hospital
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G-45,
Krishna Colony,
Anand Vihar,
Mathura
To
The Health Officer,
Nagpur
6th November, 2013
Subject : complaining about the improper drainage system
Sir,
I wish to draw your attention towards the pathetic condition of the drainage system in our district Nagpur. The drains are always overflowing and there is a foul smell in the locality.
Mosquitoes, and insects breed in this area, which is unhygienic and making life difficult for us.
During the monsoon season the situation gets bad to worse. Even a small downpour leads to clogging of drains and as a result all the streets are waterlogged. During Rainy seasons the garbage which piles in the corners of the road gets carried away with the water and is spread all across the roads.
This condition has also made life miserable for all those who stay on the ground floor as the rain water seeps into the houses. Most of the houses in our district are single stored, so most of us face this problem.
This water logging attracts mosquitoes and various other insects, due to which people are suffering from dengue, malaria and other diseases.
We have approached the local representatives. They have come over here to check the problem but they never return with any solution.
I have come know that in our neighboring districts they are not facing any kind of this problem as the entire sewage and drainage system has been changed. So, I would like to inform that the drainage system in our district is old and cracked which we people are fed up of. Kindly make it replaced with the new one.
I humbly request you to look into this matter and to bring a solution to our problems.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Pooja Sharma
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Keeping hospitals clean is a crucial patient safety issue. The importance of the hospital environment in patient care has only recently been recognized widely in infection prevention and control (IPC). In order to create a movement for change, a group of international infection control experts teamed up with Interclean, the largest cleaning trade-show in the world to create the Healthcare Cleaning Forum. This paper is the result of this conference, which featured leaders in healthcare environmental science from across Europe.
Although the available literature is limited, there is now enough evidence to demonstrate that maintaining the hygiene of the hospital environment helps prevent infections. Still, good interventional studies are rare, the quality of products and methods available is heterogeneous, and environmental hygiene personnel is often relatively untrained, unmotivated, under-paid, and under-appreciated by other actors in the hospital. Coupled with understaffed environmental hygiene service departments, this creates lasting issues in regards to patient and healthcare worker safety.
The Healthcare Cleaning Forum was designed as a platform for healthcare experts, cleaning experts, hospital managers and industry to meet productively. The conference aimed to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge in the field, create awareness and dialogue, challenge dogma and begin to shape a research agenda for developing the field of hospital hygiene and environmental control. Hospital environmental hygiene is far more complex than other types of cleaning; further evidence-based research in the field is needed. It involves the integration of current and new technologies with human elements that must work together synergistically to achieve optimal results. The education, training and career development, behavior, and work organization of environmental hygiene personnel are at the core of the proposals for the creation of a global initiative. Ultimately, what is needed is a reevaluation of how hospitals view environmental hygiene: not just as an area from which to cut costs, but one that can add value. Hospitals and key stakeholders must work together to change how we maintain the hospital environment in order to better protect patients.
Introduction
Revolutions are often started by ideas whose time have come. Compared to other domains in medicine, revolutions in the field of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) are generally few and far between. The last one was probably the global shift to using alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) instead of washing hands with soap and water, about 25 years ago- a seemingly small change in practice that continues to save millions of lives [1,2,3]. Today, looking at the IPC landscape, the one area that has been consistently undervalued and understudied is the role of the hospital environment in patient care. Keeping hospitals clean is not just an aesthetic, but a patient safety issue.
Although the available literature is limited, there is enough evidence to demonstrate that cleaning hospitals helps prevent infections. Still, good intervention studies are rare, the quality of products and methods available is heterogeneous, and environmental hygiene personnel is often relatively untrained, unmotivated, under-paid, and under-appreciated by other actors in the hospital. Coupled with understaffed environmental hygiene services departments, this creates lasting issues in regards to patient and healthcare worker safety.
The situation is not helped by the lack of literature concerning the exact impact that a soiled or contaminated environment has on healthcare-associated infections (HAI). In order to begin the initiative to change how hospitals think about their environment, a group of infection control experts teamed up with Interclean, the largest cleaning trade-show in the world, to create the Healthcare Cleaning Forum: a nexus where hospital managers, industry, and healthcare and cleaning experts could meet productively. For the first time, Interclean dedicated an entire hall to cleaning in healthcare, and hosted a conference featuring leaders in healthcare environmental science from across Europe. The speakers summarized the state of the art knowledge in the field, challenged the current dogma and began to shape a research agenda for developing the field of hospital hygiene and environmental control. This article outlines the major issues and points brought up during the conference. It attempts to illustrate the large gap that exists between environmental hygiene and the healthcare industry, as well as bring some much-deserved attention to a concept whose time has come.