Striking a balance between ‘green’ and ‘clean’ models

Both infection control and climate change must be at the heart of this, argues Stuart Skinner, Marketing manager at water controls specialist, Rada, who here explores the close link between health outcomes and sustainability, and how ‘making the right decisions should mean clean and green estates’.

It’s understandable to push one crisis to the back of the mind when you’re in the midst of another. COVID-19 has presented one of the biggest challenges to global healthcare delivery in modern times. Rightly so, the focus has been on tackling the virus, learning from our response, and how best to rebuild from its devastating effects. However, with a light at the end of the tunnel, and vaccination programmes being rolled out, efforts are embracing the need for a green recovery.

In the spring of 2020, 350 global healthcare organisations representing 40 million healthcare professionals issued a call to G20 leaders for a healthy recovery, as follows: ‘A truly healthy recovery will not allow pollution to continue to cloud the air we breathe and the water we drink. It will not permit unabated climate change and deforestation, potentially unleashing new health threats upon vulnerable populations.’