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SARAYA - 2021

Clean Hospitals: a Unique Global Network Improving Healthcare Environmental Hygiene

  • Magazine Volume: 2021
  • Article number: 2
  • Content Type: World Information
  • Category: Environmental Management
  • Facility: General
  • Field to link to full PDF field: HosCom_International_2021_web.pdf
  • Authors :

    Clean Hospitals team
THE BEGINNING OF A NEW TYPE OF COLLABORATION Since the World Health Organization (WHO) Clean Care is Safer Care program began in 2005, over 130 WHO member states and autonomous areas have pledged their support to prevent healthcare-associated infections...

Environmental Cleaning and Healthcare Associated Infection in Asia : A Perspective

  • Magazine Volume: 2021
  • Article number: 1
  • Content Type: World Information
  • Category: Environmental Management
  • Facility: General
  • Field to link to full PDF field: HosCom_International_2021_web.pdf
  • Authors :

    Anucha Apisarnthanarak, MD

    Infectious Diseases Division, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
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