Clean Hands Save Lives

8 millions of lives a year, maybe yours.

Le geste qui sauve

8 millions de vies par an, peut-être la vôtre.

8 millionen Leben ein Jahr, vielleicht bei Ihnen.

8 millones de vidas al año, tal vez la tuya

8 milhões de vidas por ano, talvez a sua.

生活の8 milions年、多分あなた。

NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS (HOSPITAL-RELATED INFECTIONS) ARE ILLNESSES ACQUIRED DURING HEALTH CARE.

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At least 500,000 patients are infected each day throughout the world. 20 to 50,000 die as a result.

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Hand hygiene using alcohol-based handrubs reduces the number of infections, and thus the related deaths, by 50%.

How?