The importance of sanitation in the hospital

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Importance of sanitation in a hospital setup
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is an adage that sunk well in the public domain. However, with increased complexities not only in the kind of food people take or the changing weather patterns but also in almost every aspect in the planet earth, people have a lifestyle which entails making several trips to the healthcare centers. It is, therefore, true that in various instances, people get into direct contacts with health facilities. Maintaining sanitation within hospitals is, therefore, an appropriate mechanism of reducing the spread of disease causing germs and microbes.
First, the practice of enhancing hygiene is necessary because the population of individuals visiting the doctors is rapidly increasing. As well, the diseases causing organisms are in the increase germs, and other microbes might have undergone a sort of evolution that enables them to spread quickly from one corner to another. The vital factor in decreasing the spread of the microbes and germs is a strict observation of the hygiene in the hospitals (Wojgani, 13). Notably, sanitation in hospitals plays a vital role in closing the communication channels of the microbes hence reducing the transmission of diseases. This is a better path to follow since the more medicine are ingested into the individuals’ body systems, the more such bodies get weak due to the reduced immunity.
Subsequently, there are so many infections at the hospital, and according to study, people who are in charge of care at the hospitals are said to be more vulnerable to such infections than any other person.

The assent denotes why sanitation remains a critical practice in a hospital setup. The persons with the role of caring in the health centers are said to have experiences of heart failure in most cases because their immune systems are exposed to unfavorable conditions that get it weakened and thus making them susceptible to infections (Velleman, 15). In many cases, if it happens that a hospital is not in proper hygienic state of affairs, then conditions of patients will worsen because of the existence of many infection-causing agents. A hospital can be deduced as a place with a high concentration of bacteria such as MRSA, Pseudomonas, and the E.coli among others (Peleg, 1810). These bacteria always create the unfavorable condition for the human stay without getting infected.
Furthermore, the mode of contacting these bacteria is typically through the direct interaction with the medical as well as the surgical treatment substances. These bacteria must always be identified earlier because they always cause death for the reason that they are resistant to many antibiotics that are normally used in the treatment of known common infections (Shultz, 642). If sanitation is not maintained, the infection is always passed from one patient to the next even making nurses and doctors victims. It is necessary to control and prevent with all ways the spread of infections and any other viruses within the hospital set up to avoid the unnecessary complications that lead to death.
In conclusion, maintaining proper hygiene within the hospital setup is the primary mechanism of preventing the rapid spread of the disease-causing germs and microbes. As a way of maintaining and having a defined sanitized healthcare organization, it is just important to implement the recommendable cleaning regimes that take a concentration on the susceptible areas. Failure to maintain sanitation properly increases the chances of passing of the germs and microbes from one patient to other people within the hospital environment.

Work cited
Peleg, Anton Y., and David C. Hooper. “Hospital-acquired infections due to gram-negative bacteria.” New England Journal of Medicine 362.19 (2010): 1804-1813.
Shultz, Alvin, et al. “Cholera outbreak in Kenyan refugee camp: risk factors for illness and importance of sanitation.” The American journals of tropical medicine & hygiene 80.4 (2009): 640-645.
Velleman, Yael, et al. “From joint thinking to joint action: a call to action on improving water, sanitation, and hygiene for maternal and newborn health.” PLoS medicine 11.12 (2014): e1001771.
Wojgani, Hedieh, et al. “Hospital door handle design and their contamination with bacteria: a real life observational study. Are we pulling against closed doors?.” PloS one 7.10 (2012): e40171.