A specialist in infection prevention, proactive drainage support, and research and development for new drainage solutions, discuss some of the major infection-related and other challenges caused by blocked and damaged drains. It points out that research indicates that there is a correlation between poor drainage and the number of superbug infections, with dangerous viruses, such as MRSA, C. diffcile, norovirus, and SARS, ‘growing’ in drains.
Meg Stone, managing director, and Charles Hartley, chief engineer, at Dyteqta, a specialist in infection prevention, proactive drainage support, and research and development for new drainage solutions, discuss some of the major infection-related and other challenges caused by blocked and damaged drains in healthcare facilities, and offer some recommendations to help minimise the chances of such issues occurring.
Dyteqta is a small UK firm that specialises in proactively supporting hospitals that experience drainage challenges. Our primary focus is on improving the ‘health’ of drainage, which in turn reduces flooding of raw sewage and crosscontamination across buildings, as well as spore-travelling healthcare-associated infections. Our experiences over time have highlighted consistent contributory factors that – for the most part – are, with knowledge and understanding, preventable. We’d like to share with you our findings, as drainage challenges and ‘superbugs’ are on the rise.
Superbugs’ prevalence
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