Hand Hygiene Day isnobserved annually on May 5 to raise awareness of the importance of adequatenhandwashing in health care settings.
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Health care systems poorncare is responsible to more than 8 million deaths annually in low- andnmiddle-income countries.
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SEE Health Network (SEEHN)njoins the celebration of the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands: an ongoing worldwidencampaign to highlight the crucial importance of cleaning hands.
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This year to align with the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, SEEHN is reiterating the importance of nurses and midwives in infection prevention and control, providing clean and safer care.
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Thencurrent pandemic of COVID-19 revived and spotted the decisive role of cleannhands to stop the virus spreading and to keep safe the health professionals,ntherefore SEEHN is calling thenGovernments for Action to ensure hand hygiene practices widely aimed to preventnthe transmission of the COVID-19 virus by:
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1. Providing universalnaccess to public hand hygiene stations and making their use obligatory onnentering and leaving any public or private commercial building and any publicntransport facility.
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2. Improving access to hand hygiene facilities and practices in health care facilities.
SEE Health Network joins the celebration of the European Immunization Week to highlight the crucial importance of vaccination in the modern world. Vaccination is a public good and it is a right and responsibility of every citizen and we all as society and communities can benefit from. This year the work of the nurses and midwifes, who are at the forefront of the vaccination points and are a trusted source of information on vaccination, is highlighted.
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SEEHN Member States at national level show a widenvariation in vaccination coverage and share common challenges that are similarnto the rest of the European countries related to vaccination coverage,navailability, quality of vaccines, etc.
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In this context, SEEHN placed high on the agenda tonstrengthen immunization. Steady efforts have been channeled over the last 3nyears in partnership with WHO EURO and the SEEHN RHDC on Communicable Diseases hostednby Albania – SECID.
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Governments within the South-eastern Europe HealthnMinisterial Meeting on Immunization, that took place in Podgorica, Montenegro,non 20 February 2018,endorsed a Statementnof Intent that reiterated commitment to the European Vaccine ActionnPlan.
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Furthermore, over the last couple of years SEEHN received comprehensive guidance from WHO EURO and SEEHN RHDC SECID over a series of Regional meetings on the development of a regional roadmap providing a foundation upon which joint action, partnership and collaboration can be strengthened and scaled-up to tackle shared immunization programme challenges.
