WHO called on health workers to wash their hands more

Almost one in ten patients worldwide infected with various infections while in hospital. These data are contained in a report published by the press service of the World Health Organization (WHO).

WHO experts evaluated the incidence of nosocomial infections worldwide.

According to research in developed countries, such infections are infected seven people in a hundred hospitalized. In developing countries this figure reaches 10 percent.

Employees of international organizations have also found that nosocomial infections are infected almost every third patient in intensive care and resuscitation.

The spread of nosocomial infections, WHO relates primarily to the violation of the rules of personal hygiene by medical staff. In particular, according to representatives of organizations, medical staff pays insufficient attention to washing hands before contact with patients.

In this regard, WHO has urged doctors working in hospitals, mostly to handle the hand disinfectant, and in the absence of special tools to use ordinary soap.