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The newly launched Hygienius® hot water hand wash station from Chelmsley Wood-based Teal Patents is playing an important role in a hand hygiene campaign organised by NHS Grampian.
As the unit requires no fixed plumbing or drainage to operate and is lightweight and portable it is proving to be the perfect training tool for the Infection Control Team when they stage their Hands vs Germs events at different venues in the region – as part of Scotland’s National Hand Hygiene Campaign.
Two Hygienius® units made their debut north of the border at a family hand washing event held in The Mall shopping centre in Aberdeen.
Between 10am and 4pm over 600 people washed their hands with a Hygienius® as part of a hand washing demonstration.
“Regular and thorough hand washing needs to be part of everybody’s daily routine and the Hygienius® units were fantastic at the event in helping us to promote this to children and adults,” says Grampian National Hand Hygiene Campaign Co-ordinator Karen Wares.
“We just filled them with clean water, plugged them in and they were ready for use. For one outside event in the past we had to get a sink plumbed in that only had cold water which is not ideal and it was quite costly,” she adds.
The Hygienius® has been developed by Teal to encourage hot water hand washing in hospitals and other medical establishments in the wake of the increasing number of cases of C.difficle and norovirus.
Once plugged into a 13 amp mains socket and filled with cold tap water it is ready to use, delivering up to 50 ten second hot washes per filling and providing an instant ablution solution to the ongoing threat of Health Care Acquired Infections.
Infection Control Nurses all over the UK are seeing the potential of the Hygienius® – using it for training in hospitals and the wider community as well as encouraging its use in medical establishments.
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