A torch promoting the importance of hand hygiene has visited Derry.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust’s (Western Trust) Infection Prevention and Control Team are supporting the nationwide in the form of the torch tour around Britain and Ireland.
The team took hold of the Hand Hygiene Torch at the Peace Bridge in Derry as part of the Northern Ireland leg of the tour running until 14 June next.
The hand hygiene campaign is being driven by the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) to ‘spread the message, not the bugs’ about the importance of hand hygiene.
Photo shows Nyree McKenny, Infection Prevention & Control Nurse; Clare Robertson, Infection Prevention & Control Nurse; Julie Delvin, Foyle Search and Rescue; Gemma Grieve, Foyle Search and Rescue and Wendy Cross, Western Trust Head of Infection Prevention & Control, with
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