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- Keeping your hands clean at the right time saves your life.
- Maintaining hand hygiene in health care over the past few years has saved millions of lives.
- Hand hygiene is a quality indicator of a safe health care system.
- Health care issues such as health-care-related infections are often intangible but still occurring, and these issues are political and social challenges that we must now address.
- Good hand hygiene can prevent infection, and less than $10 can protect patients and health workers from harm.
- There are already affordable life-saving technologies available! Alcohol hand lotion is about $3 a bottle, which can prevent health care-related infections and prevent millions of deaths every year.
- The theme tag #handhygiene is now available in the media, indicating that hand hygiene is an important issue due to health care-related infections or due to fatal diseases such as Ebola.
- Incorporating specific moments of implementing hand hygiene measures into the workflow of health care workers can facilitate the right actions every day and every day.
- Prevention of infection is the key to strengthening the health care system.
- Hand hygiene is essential for all interventions, whether insertion of invasive devices, management of surgical wounds, or injections.