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Created: 06 August 2016

• 1500 doctors, Nurses and Apollo Staff members better previous record
• Hospital intends to start a series of initiatives on creating awareness and hygiene in line with the Government’s “Swacch Bharat Abhiyan”

 

NEW DELHI: In a bid to create awareness on the importance of hand hygiene for enhancing patient and health care personnel’s safety,Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals had launched the campaign ‘Clean Hands, Healing Hands’ on Hand Hygiene Day earlier in the year. This endeavour which involved1500members of the Apollo Family at New Delhi created a Guinness World Record in hand sanitization relay.

 

Maj Gen (Dr) L R Sharma, Director, Medical Services, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals said: “The campaign aimed at incorporating the healthy habit of hand hygiene among people and creating awareness about the importance of hand hygiene in prevention of the spread of communicable diseases. Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals promotes a healthy, safe and clean environment and emphasises on infection prevention in the hospital system. We are very excited and motivated to be the world record holder in a single venue Hand Sanitizing Relay.”

 

Mr Jaideep Gupta, Managing Director, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi said: “We, at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, have always strived to give our patients, their attendants, our employees, staff members, visitors and the community we serve, a safer environment - to get healed quickly, to work healthy and to live healthy. This year on the 5th of May -celebrated as World Hand Hygiene Day we sought to create awareness about the importance of hand hygiene in prevention of the spread of communicable diseases by this initiative by the Apollo family members.”

 

The hospital staff formed a human chain relay, each following similar steps in sanitizing their hands with alcohol gel sanitizer and following the rules and regulations as per Guinness World Record guidelines, strictly and independently observed by witnesses and stewarded by more than 30 independent stewards not associated with the hospital.

 

In doing so the hospital has become India’s first to hold such a distinction. The hospital intends to help create further awareness on the importance of sanitization and hygiene for all citizens as espoused through the Government’s “Swacch Bharat Abhiyan”.