WHO Campaign: SAVE LIVES – Clean Your Hands   Hand Hygiene Day – 5 May
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WHO encourages patient participation for hand hygiene in health care
News release – Excerpt
3 May 2013 | Geneva – On Hand Hygiene Day (5 May), the World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging patients and their family members to join health workers in their efforts to practice good hand hygiene. Every year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by health care-associated infections. These lead to significant physical and psychological suffering and sometimes death of patients, and financial losses for health systems. More than half of these infections could be prevented by caregivers properly cleaning their hands at key moments in patient care…
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/hand_hygiene_20130503/en/index.html