5 Moments For Hand Hygiene Infographic

The goal of the annual "Save Lives: Clean Your Hands" campaign is to spread the word about the importance of hand hygiene in healthcare globally and to "bring people together" to support better hand hygiene worldwide.

5 Moments for hand hygiene  

The World Health Organization (WHO) has devised the "5 Moments for Hand Hygienic" approach to minimize the risk of microbial transmission between health care workers, patients and the environment.

1. Before touching a patient

2. Before clean / aseptic procedure

3. After body fluid exposure risk

4. After touching a patient

5. After touching patient surroundings

As you can see, the infographic aims to promote "5 Moments of Hand Hygiene". Hand hygiene is one of the most effective measures to reduce the spread of pathogens and prevent infections, including COVID-19.

Besides the hand hygiene infographic, there is another infographic designed around the 5 moments. View the 5 moments infographic.