February 2018

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are the most common complication people develop during their time in a hospital. In the developed world, 7 out of every 100 inpatients catch some kind of infection from their environment, while HAIs are the principal reason for 1 out of every 25 hospital admissions. Worse, facility-caused infections lead to 99,000 preventable

What goes down the drain in hospitals is not pretty – Learn how hospital environments could be “potential reservoirs of bacteria”. The rise of superbugs has long been an issue, but perhaps we haven’t realized how quickly they are able to spread in the most unexpected places, until now. A recent report unveils how hospitals