Posted in Luxembourg forum
With the growing population and the increasing risk of putting yourself and your family in danger of the emergence of different kinds of diseases and infections, the need to secure your safety is very crucial. However though, we all know it is not easy unless you put your children who need to go to school everyday homebound or keep your spouse from working and meeting people. You cannot encase your family in a big bubble suit but at least, you can minimize the risk by taking extra precautions. Disposing medical supplies is one such example of taking prevention against infections.
Hospitals are places where sick people are taken care of, treated and made healthy again. Ironically, hospitals are also places where infections can easily spread due to the presence of so many patients under one roof. And that is the reason there are so many infection preventive items stored there for protecting the patients and the staff. For persisting medical conditions such as diabetes, patients have to use syringes at home and such items are better used once and disposed.
Disposable medical supplies are of different types – some are meant to be used at home and some at hospitals. Some of the common items are syringes, gloves, masks, IV bags, thermometers, catheters, bags, etc. In other words, any item that has to be used on the body of the patients have to be separate and used only once and then be discarded so that if there is any infection in one patient, it does not spread to another.
Manufacturing of disposable medical supplies have to done with the best quality materials to ensure that they are safe for the patients to be used. Quality assurance should be done in every product and must be included in every process. Carlton Church International, one of Australia’s leading suppliers of medical paraphernalia and is already distributing medical partners in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Thailand and Tokyo, Japan shares how it is very crucial to carefully pack medical supplies and seal it since the patients would be using them on their body and any contact with germs or infected items have to be avoided.
Doctors, nurses and technicians in the laboratory have to take care that they use unopened and safely packed items each time they use it on each patient and dispose the items as soon as the use is over. It is the responsibility of the hospital to ensure that the staff uses only these disposable items on patients. And the responsibility of keeping oneself safe lies with the patients too. It is important that they insist on accepting only these disposable medical supplies for their use when they are in hospitals. While purchasing these products from the pharmacy, they need to ensure that they are buying sealed packets of medical supplies.
