You may be aware of the importance of hand washing. It is one of the ways of maintaining good hygiene. Why hand washing is recommended? The main reason is to prevent spreading of contagious diseases. Hand washing ensures your safety from getting infections. Hand washing is recommended mainly for infection control. If you don’t wash your hands, you may have more chances to get infections such as flu, cold cough and intestinal infections. You may also get diarrhea. There are many other infections that may be caused by unclean hands. People working in medical field should understand the importance of hand washing.
Germs transmit on our household in many ways. It may transmit from our hand to food. When we eat that food, we might get the infection. Germs may transmit from raw food like meat to your hands and from your hands to your food afterward. That is why you should wash your hands nicely after working with meat, chicken and so on. If you don’t wash your hands properly, you may transmit germs to your eyes, nose and mouth. You should wash your hands every time you use toilet. Tools carry germs. If you are having infants at home, you should change diaper often. Every time after changing diaper, you should wash your hands properly. In hospitals, the staffs have to be very careful during their work.
All the hospital staff should be aware of the importance of washing hands frequently during duty time. It is quite unfortunate that people working in the medical field are not taking enough efforts to keep their hands free from germs even though they are fully aware of the danger of spreading infections. In fact, they should wash hands every time they touch a patient. But unfortunately, we often notice that the hospital staffs don’t stick to this rule at all in many hospitals. In the operation theater, all the staff should wash their hands with extreme care to avoid spreading infections. They should know how to wash their hands carefully with soap. Items such as a portable sink, a small self contained cleaning unit, could be spread out across the hospital; making it easier for employees to wash their hands.
Those people who are in food service should take good care of hygiene. They should be very careful while cooking and serving food. They need to wash hands before cooking and before serving food. Children should be taught to wash hands before eating. In a nutshell, I would say that main reason for food borne illness is due to poor hygiene. Lack of hand washing is the main reason for poor hygiene. Therefore, let us spread the message of the importance of hand washing, and how easy it can be using portable sinks, to others to avoid spreading of diseases.