For World Hand Hygiene Day this year, 5 May, MSF Lebanon Branch office created a package, in line with MSF’s engagement to support the SAVE LIVES: Clean your Hands campaign, launched by the WHO. This year, with the slogan “Seconds save Live: Clean your hands”, the campaign mainly targets health care workers, by highlighting their role in achieving effective hand hygiene action at the points of care.

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Today is World Hand Hygiene Day, let's list 10 measures that guarantee good hand hygiene in health facilities
We don't wear accessories (watches, rings, bracelets…), nail polish, or artificial nails
We perform hand hygiene immediately before touching a patient
We perform hand hygiene before a clean/aseptic procedure
We perform hand hygiene after exposure risk to body fluids and after glove removal
We perform hand hygiene after touching a patient and leaving her/his immediate surroundings
We perform hand hygiene after touching any object or furniture in the patient’s immediate surroundings, even if the patient has not touched them, when leaving
We perform hand hygiene with soap and water when hands are visibly soiled for 40-60 seconds
When hands are not visibly soiled, we use hand rub for 20-30 seconds
We follow all the steps needed to achieve appropriate hand hygiene and the time needed for it, seconds save patients' lives
Wearing gloves does not eliminate the need for hand hygiene. We wear them to protect ourselves and the patients, and we take them off immediately after touching the patients
Following these 10 measures is not difficult. They help us limit the spread of infection from one patient to another, and from patients to health care workers.