Healthcare & Hospital Hygiene News
TOMORROW’S CLEANING OCTOBER 09
As healthcare and hospital hygiene is a huge part of a cleaning industry, Tomorrow’s Cleaning
has decided to devote the following 4 pages to the latest news from the sector.
Is it a bird? It is a plane?
No it’s a flying hospital!
IF YOU SAW IT, YOU WOULD THINK IT WAS JUST ANOTHER JET WAITING TO WHISK
HAPPY HOLIDAY-MAKERS OFF TO AN EXOTIC LOCATION. BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO
GET JEALOUS, AS THIS IS NO ORDINARY PLANE.
The ORBIS DC-10 jet is the only airborne eye sight is priceless but how is it cleaned? It is
hospital in the world. It flies to developing not wholly stationary, but is never constantly
countries offering the gift of sight right on on the move. Planes are complex to clean,
their doorstep. compact spaces that often house many
Once you board the aircraft, you enter a
different people at many different times.
48-seat classroom at the front of the plane, We spoke to Krishani Ranaweera,
where doctors gather in the passenger seats Communications Manager at ORBIS UK,
for lectures and discussions, and to watch
who told us more:
live broadcasts of surgical procedures.
“The onboard crew, which range from doctors
There is also a waiting room, an examination
to biomedical engineers, are also trained
room and a laser eye treatment area alongside
cabin crew, if anyone is flying with the which help to ensure everything runs safely and
a fully equipped operating theatre with an
programme onboard the plane they are also
efficiently. This crew only clean the inside though,
adjoining scrub room where the surgeons
tasked with the aircrafts cleaning. As medical
contractors deal with the exterior at cost only.”
prepare under strict, hygienic conditions.
professionals, and having had the necessary
www.orbis.org.uk
The 21 crew members, including doctors,
training, they spend days before and after
nurses and biomedical engineers and flight
programmes cleaning, sterilizing and readying
mechanics, are flown from country to country
the aircraft for patients using a range of
for up to 10 months of the year by United
certified products.
Airline pilots who volunteer their services.
“The crew includes flight mechanics and
This is a fantastic innovation and the gift of
engineers, as well as medical professionals,
Hygiene measures implemented but not Ramon care about healthcare hygiene
used in hospitals
Ramon Hygiene has a whole range of products
John Palethorpe, chairman of Improve North Yorks NHS Services,
suited to all sorts of environments. But they do
believes that most hospital vistors disregard the alcohol hand gels at
appreciate that hospitals and healthcare facilities
the entrance to wards, the Scarborough Evening News reports.
need to be especially clean. A place where
people go when they are sick or unwell, is a place
This is why he is calling on people to play their part in stopping the
that meets hundreds of germs every single day.
further spread of infections in medical centres and to further ensure that
their family and friends in hospital are not exposed to further bacteria,
Ramon’s Healthcare Cleaning Manual can offer
germs and disease.
you a solution. Inside are a range of products that
are suited perfectly for the healthcare and hospital industry. From wipes,
The campaigner said: “The government has spent billions on trying to
to mops and trolley systems - there is a product to suit every type of
get rid of MRSA and C difficile and we’re in the middle of a swine flu
pandemic - and yet people are not doing it. The public needs to
floor or surface.
understand just how important this is.”
To view the Manual, CLICK HERE or alternatively, view Ramon’s range
While the Cleaning Industry does its bit to ensure the control of further
of product flyers to help to find the perfect product.
spread, it seems the solution lies, quite literally, in the hands of the public.
www.ramonhygiene.co.uk
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