Magrabi Eye Hospitals and Centers in the Western Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia launched a health campaign aimed at combating microbes, in celebration of the International Week for Infection Prevention, which health organizations around the world celebrate in the third week of October every year, with the aim of shedding light on ways to combat infection, Increasing awareness about preventive methods and procedures that protect the individual and society from infection and infectious diseases.

The International Day for Infection Prevention this year and the past two years is of great importance to most countries of the world, in light of the strong fears of the spread of the “Covid 19” virus infection, which has left many infections and deaths in various countries of the world since its appearance in 2019 until now, which Making methods of infection prevention, the ideal solution to protect the individual and society from infection, and limit its spread.

Infection in its various forms, whether bacterial, viral, or fungi, is usually transmitted directly due to mixing between people through sexual contact, sneezing or coughing, and the infection is also transmitted indirectly through acquiring the infection from one person to another.

This comes at a time when Magrabi Hospitals and Centers in the Western Region launched an anti-microbial campaign, with the aim of shedding light on some preventive measures, including promoting proper hand hygiene, training on how to use preventive equipment to protect against infection, as well as raising awareness of ways of transmission of infection within Hospitals and how to prevent their spread, especially since the task of limiting the spread of germs and infection is a shared responsibility among health workers in health facilities and among all members of society.

In photos: A glimpse on “International Infection Prevention Week” and anti-microbial resistance campaign that organized by Magrabi Western region.

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