Winning the War against MRSA and Clostridium difficile: EcoHydra recognises Infection Prevention Week

14 - 20 October 2007

"Infection Prevention - It's in your hands"

EcoHydra Technologies Limited is supporting Infection Control Week, which is now aligned with International Infection Prevention week. The focus of the week is to bring the importance of infection control and hand hygiene to the forefront of attention on a worldwide basis.

Only last week the increasing rates of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) were in the press headlines. The Healthcare Commission issued a damning report into how the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent handled outbreaks of the bacterial infection C. difficile.

EcoHydra is pleased that our range of alcohol-free hand hygiene products do not break down the outer covering of the C. difficile spore. Using the EcoHydra products will keep 99.99% of germs that cause HCAIs under control, without the need to change hand hygiene procedures if a patient has contracted an active case of C. difficile infections.

Kate Winn-Rogers, Operations Director of EcoHydra stated that, "C. Difficile is a dangerous bug; it gets into the intestines and produces very powerful poisons which can be lethal in about 7% of cases. The difficulty in controlling C. difficile is that it produces spores that can survive for a long time in the environment. Unfortunately, it has been shown that alcohol does not kill the spores of the Clostridium species and in certain tests actually causes an increase in the number of viable spores found. This is why our alcohol-free products are a major improvement on the products currently used in the NHS." 

Health Protection 2007

Sponsored by the Health Protection Agency

EcoHydra attended the conference and exhibition. The product range was well received and the delegates s howed interest in having alcohol free products to usein their workplaces.

The winner of the Apple iPod was Debbie Oliver. The iPod was presented to her by Sir William Stewart, Chairman of the Health Protection Agency.  

Congratulations Debbie!