IMA joins ‘Swachh Bhartat Abhiyan’ to make sanitation drive a success drugtodayonline/nation/1246-ima-joins-swachh-bhartat-abhiyan-to-make-sanitation-drive-a-success.html BS RAWAT NEW DELHI 4/10/2014 With a membership of 2.5 lakh doctors spread over 1,700 branches and reaching to approximately 33 crore people every month across the country the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has joined hands in a massive special cleanliness campaign launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. It has extended its full cooperation to achieve the five-year target of complete sanitation. The IMA has requested all its state and local branches to hold public lectures and workshops for their members on the issue of proper management of infectious human waste besides joining the campaign wholeheartedly. Necessary guidelines have already been issued to them focusing on the importance of proper hygiene and sanitation. Realising the need for proper hygiene at the places of health services, IMA honorary secretary-general Dr Narender Saini said the WHO Guidelines on hygiene for healthcare professionals were released and are based on - Clean Care is Safer Care. There is need to protect people from hospital associated infection and also from contact transmission. Speaking to DTMT, Dr Saini said this increases the need for effective hospital wastes management. Due to various infections and diseases being faced in the clinics and clinical establishments, the need to effectively manage the clinical and hospital wastes gains a great importance. In India, more than 60 per cent of the diseases are infectious in nature which can be prevented by simple steps of cleanliness and hygiene. Common diseases caused due to lack of hygiene include gastro intestinal diseases, respiratory diseases, skin Infections, food poisoning and allergies. Various components of hygiene include home and everyday life hygiene, hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene food hygiene at home, household water treatment and safe storage, medical hygiene at home, body hygiene, personal hygiene, hygiene in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet and laundry hygiene. An IMA spokesperson said it has been planned to print and circulate promotional material related to importance of hygiene and sanitation for prominent display in the clinics and health institutions of all the members of association. The five-year programme which shall cover 4,041 statutory towns shall involve all gram panchayats to eliminate open defecation by 2019. Solid and liquid waste management also forms an important component of the programme. Major thrust is being given to information, education and communication on importance of cleanliness.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:33:45 +0000
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