SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

Local homecare provider Bluebird Care Islington & Hackney is supporting the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign.

Local homecare provider Bluebird Care Islington & Hackney is supporting the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign. May 5^th marks the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual campaign which aims to emphasise the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to globally improve hand hygiene.

This year’s slogan is “Nurses and Midwives, clean care is in your hands!“

Nurses and other health care workers are on the frontlines saving lives from COVID-19. The WHO says that everyone can play an important role in preventing COVID-19 by washing their hands.

COVID-19 is spread through droplet and contact transmission. This means that the virus can spread by touching contaminated surfaces or infectious persons and then touching other objects, persons or your own eyes, mouth and nose.

Hand washing with soap and water or using an alcohol-based hand rub is so vital to help prevent the spread of viruses including COVID-19. 

Michael Hackett, Director of Bluebird Care Islington & Hackney, commented:

“It is very important to wash your hands, especially during the coronavirus outbreak.

Studies by the World Health Organisation have shown that handwashing removes germs and destroys viruses.

You can save lives simply by cleaning your hands!”

To find more about the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign, please visit: https://www.who.int/infection-prevention/campaigns/clean-hands/en/

Bluebird Care is a national provider of care in the home, specialising in working with customers who live with dementia, physical disabilities and many other acute and chronic conditions. Bluebird Care work alongside their customers’ families, social services and the NHS to ensure each person receives the care they need.

Bluebird Care offers a unique service of tailored care visits which range from anything from 30 minutes to full live-in support. As well as personal care they also help with meal preparation, welfare checks, shopping, social trips, visits to the hospital and provide extra support for post-discharge customers.

For more details contact Bluebird Care by calling  020 3589 7799, emailing islington@bluebirdcare.co.uk, or by visiting their website  https://www.bluebirdcare.co.uk/islington-hackney/home