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 Zalau: No rings, watches and nails painted to hospital staff May 27, 2011

ZALAU MSR representatives have taught doctors and nurses in Zalau how to wash their hands From now on medical staff Zalau County Emergency Hospital is no longer allowed to wear rings, watches, false nails or painted. These conditions will be included in a regulation will be applicable for a month now. This resolution is the result of the campaign "Save lives by washing your hands", initiated by the World Health Organization and implemented by the Foundation Salaj British Medical Support in Romania (MSR). In a press conference held today, representatives of the MSR, the hospital manager, Ioan Muresan, and doctors and nurses in hospital Zalău said that the campaign aimed to prevent nosocomial infections (hospital) by improving the hand washing technique. Using a device with ultraviolet hospital donated by the SRM, you can see how effective their hand washing health professionals. The result was that this operation is generally done as they should, remaining areas on the hands that keep germs that can be passed from one patient to another. A month hospital wards were available to implement what they learned in the campaign, and then will make an assessment of staff, as a competition between departments to see whether staff comply with this rule. "Washing hands is more important than dezinfectatul salons," says one representative MSR. The hospital is a specialized department for the prevention of nosocomial infections, which will deal with enforcement of this regulation and the evaluation results.