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SMS Hospital Bedsheets: SMS Hospital Bedsheets Losing Colour: Impact on Monitoring and Hygiene | Jaipur News
Jaipur: Coloured bedsheets were introduced at the Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital to ensure that they are changed every day. Within six months of the initiative, the bedsheets have started losing their colour. Without colour, the initiative to ensure that the staff has changed the bedsheets daily is not being monitored properly.
The hospital had procured light pink, light green and light blue bedsheets to ensure that the sheets are changed daily in February.Before that, the hospital was using white bedsheets on all days. With white bedsheets on all seven days of the week, it was difficult to ascertain whether they were changed daily.
However, the bedsheets brought six months ago are now getting faded. “Stains of blood and fluids require intensive cleaning of the bedsheets. We need to clean the bedsheets in the laundry before using it again. It is because of intensive washing the bedsheets are losing colour,” said Dr Achal Sharma, medical superintendent, SMS Hospital. He said that either they will get new bedsheets or they will get the old bed sheets dyed to ensure that different colour bedsheets are used on different days in the hospital to maintain and monitor hygiene. The initiative was launched with light green, light blue and light pink bedsheets. The hospital repeats the same colour bedsheets twice a week but not on consecutive days. If light green is used on Monday, then it is getting used again on Thursday. The initiative is helping the hospital in monitoring the cleanliness routine and staff involved in it. Once in a week, white bedsheets is used. It also helps to control infection and ensure hygiene in the hospital. National guidelines on infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities include cleanliness of pillows, mattress covers, bedsheets and curtains.
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The hospital had procured light pink, light green and light blue bedsheets to ensure that the sheets are changed daily in February.Before that, the hospital was using white bedsheets on all days. With white bedsheets on all seven days of the week, it was difficult to ascertain whether they were changed daily.
However, the bedsheets brought six months ago are now getting faded. “Stains of blood and fluids require intensive cleaning of the bedsheets. We need to clean the bedsheets in the laundry before using it again. It is because of intensive washing the bedsheets are losing colour,” said Dr Achal Sharma, medical superintendent, SMS Hospital. He said that either they will get new bedsheets or they will get the old bed sheets dyed to ensure that different colour bedsheets are used on different days in the hospital to maintain and monitor hygiene. The initiative was launched with light green, light blue and light pink bedsheets. The hospital repeats the same colour bedsheets twice a week but not on consecutive days. If light green is used on Monday, then it is getting used again on Thursday. The initiative is helping the hospital in monitoring the cleanliness routine and staff involved in it. Once in a week, white bedsheets is used. It also helps to control infection and ensure hygiene in the hospital. National guidelines on infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities include cleanliness of pillows, mattress covers, bedsheets and curtains.
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