Half of doctors at Singapore Central Hospital wash their hands before seeing patients
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Last Update: 2020-07-04
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Theof Singapore's CentralHospital said on the 18th that after the introduction of hand-washing measures for doctors last year, doctors who insisted on washing their hands before seeing each patient increased from 2
0 percent to 50 percentThe head of the Infection Control Department at the Central Hospital says the hospital's goal is for all doctors to wash their hands before seeing each patientAccording to Singapore's Straits Times,survey conducted in January 2007
at the Central Hospital showed that only 20% of doctors in thewere able to keep washing their hands before see
ing each patient,those who forgot to wash their hands,because there were too many,they had no time to wash their handsSingapore's health minister, Xu Wenyuan, saidwould urge hospitals to improve their health , and would force the collection and publication of data, including infection rates in hospitals
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