BASIC HAND HYGIENE remains the key to infection control in hospitals, said head of the Infection Control Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Dr Corey Forde.
He said no advances in technology or medicine will ever be as good a weapon in the fight.
He was speaking to members of the press outside of a seminar at the Radisson Aquatica yesterday, which was part of events for the first Caribbean Infection Control Week. It attracted participants from 17 Caribbean countries.
“We can have all the fancy equipment we want. We can have all the fancy new equipment we want, but if we don’t go back to Infection Control 101, which is hand hygiene . . . . Then we will never win this battle,” Forde said. (YB)
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