Children taught good hand hygiene

STAFF from the new Ahmed Al-Kadi Private Hospital took the message of healthy hand hygiene to three schools in the area last week, in commemoration of World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.

According to Sr Saloshni Beetham, in a major global effort to improve hand hygiene in health care led by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the annual global campaign was launched in 2009 to support health-care workers. The WHO sets the standards for hand hygiene and encourages health professions to engage in interactive activities with their communities on the day throughout the world.

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The WHO is running a competition where health organisations can submit a video or posters relating to the projects they completed on World Hand Hygiene Day. Staff at the Ahmed Al-Kadi Hospital submitted a video from their visits to the various schools in Sydenham.

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The staff put together a dance with an African theme which focused on the eight steps of hand hygiene. The video, along with posters from each department at the hospital, will be submitted to the competition.

“Our song brings it down to the level of the community and we hope the children at the schools we visited were inspired to take what they learnt home to teach their families about proper hand hygiene,” said Saloshni.

She said the KZN Medical Specialist Network was also running a competition, and the hospital would also be entering their video into this.

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