Bridgetown.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) has trained over three hundred staff members in hand hygiene and appointed a consultant to lead its infection control team as part of recommendations made by the infectious diseases team from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO).
According to newly appointed consultant Dr Corey Forde, the infection control unit will enforce simple practices like washing or sanitizing hands before contact with patients and increasing the number of times housekeeping staff clean areas where patients with severe infections are located.
The training sessions will continue for the next two weeks, and critical care units have also increased screening of all patients on entry and exit of the units.
In addition, 50 additional alcohol hand sanitizers were mounted last week and over 100 more will be installed over the weekend in the main public areas and the entrances to wards and cubicles.
The PHAO team was called in earlier this month after the klebsiella pneumoniae batrica was found at the hospital.
