How to prepare hand sanitizer as recommended by World Health Organization
Note : The official WHO website has detailed guidelines and this blog in only a reference to the WHO recommendations as of 23 March 2020. For latest updates please visit https://www.who.int/ and read the latest guidelines
To help countries and health-care facilities to achieve system change
and adopt alcohol-based hand-rubs as the gold standard for hand hygiene
in health care, WHO has identified formulations for their local
preparation. Logistic, economic, safety, and cultural and religious
factors have all been carefully considered by WHO before recommending
such formulations for use worldwide. At present, alcohol-based hand-rubs are the only known means for rapidly
and effectively inactivating a wide array of potentially harmful
microorganisms on hands
WHO recommends alcohol-based handrubs based on the following factors:
- evidence-based, intrinsic advantages of fast-acting and broad-spectrum microbicidal activity with a minimal risk of generating resistance to antimicrobial agents;
- suitability for use in resource-limited or remote areas with lack of accessibility to sinks or other facilities for hand hygiene (including clean water, towels, etc.);
- capacity to promote improved compliance with hand hygiene by making the process faster and more convenient;
- economic benefit by reducing annual costs for hand hygiene, representing approximately 1% of extra-costs generated by HCAI
- minimization of risks from adverse events because of increased safety associated with better acceptability and tolerance than other products
https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
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