GOJO Industries-Europe is backing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global call to action for health workers.
The worldwide advocacy day for Hand Hygiene falls annually on 5 May, and this year its importance is even more significant as the world battles COVID-19. As a member of the WHO Private Organizations for Patient Safety group, GOJO is a strong advocate of making hand hygiene second nature to everyone and is supporting the annual ‘Save Lives: Clean Your Hands’ campaign, encouraging everybody in the healthcare industry to get involved.
As the World Health Assembly has designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, the campaign’s focus this year is on the central role they play in achieving clean care. This includes hand hygiene best practices, as well as recognising their crucial contribution to strengthening quality health systems.
The annual campaign and advocacy day target a cross-section of influencers in the global healthcare sector, calling them to join together in celebrating and empowering nurses and midwives in the monumental work that they do to keep patients, families, and colleagues safe, by preventing healthcare associated infections.
This year’s specific calls to action are:
- Nurses: “Clean and safe care starts with you.”
- Midwives: “Your hands make all the difference for mothers and babies.”
- Policy Makers: “Increase nurse staffing levels to prevent infections and improve quality of care. Create the means to empower nurses and midwives.”
- Infection Prevention Control Leaders: “Empower nurses and midwives in providing clean care.”
- Patients and Families: “Safer care for you, with you.”
Chris Wakefield, Vice President, European Marketing & Product Development, GOJO Industries-Europe, commented: “Nurses and midwives account for nearly 50% of the global health workforce and play a vital role in providing health services and meeting everyday essential health needs. At GOJO, saving lives and making life better through wellbeing solutions is our mission and it continues to inspire our deep commitment to improving hand hygiene.
“In partnership with healthcare managers, we can help implement a tailored, effective, and total solution, which promotes compliant and healthy hand hygiene behaviour."
Free advocacy toolkits to support the campaign are available on the WHO website.
