General cleaning and disinfection practices used in hospitals

Abstract

Improvement in the cleaning and disinfection must be taken into account for infection prevention and control.
Health care settings are engaged in a battle against healthcare associated infection (HAIs). The importance of
infection prevention and control is increasingly due to rapidly developing strains of multi-drug resistant
organisms (MDROs), that can result in serious illness and even death in workers and patients. There are many
cleaning products which have adverse effects on human health and environment. Conventional cleaning
products are complex mixture of chemical ingredients. Many of these ingredients are known or suspected to be
associated with asthma and other respiratory disorders. Concerns about adverse human and environmental
health effects of conventional cleaning products have led to the development of green cleaners. Some green
cleaners may reduce human and environmental negative health effect as well as reduce costs.