Healthcare-associated infections
Science has shown that healthcare-associated infections, also knowns as hospital-acquired infections or HAI’s are not only transferred by other patients, but also by healthcare personnel, or even transmitted by water or air.
The immediate environment of the patient can also be an important source of nosocomial and cross infections. Many micro-organisms causing these infections (including MRSA & COVID-19) are known to contaminate hospital environments and tend to survive on dry surfaces for days, weeks and even months.
In case of an outbreak, the source of infection must be isolated from the rest of the hospital and the intensity of the cleaning and disinfection program must be scaled up.