It won’t be an understatement to say that the COVID19 pandemic caught us all off the guard. The grocery stores ran out of toilet paper, households couldn’t find sanitizers, and the healthcare industry had to get tons of PPE and disinfecting supplies. The crisis was so new that the cleaning industry and the healthcare industry had to do a crash course on cleaning. Here’s how our practices changed:

Increased hygiene guidelines

Hospitals are undeniably a hotspot of COVID19 infection. The healthcare staff has been rightfully termed as ‘frontline workers’ due to their greater exposure to the virus risk. Due to their higher susceptibility, healthcare workers need to be provided with more than just surgical masks and gloves. The healthcare staff deserves access to adequate PPE and a workplace that guarantees safety. The hospital staff also requires frequently laundered operation theatre robes, cleaner scrubs, and more hygienic breakrooms to rest.

A greater need to disinfect

The COVID19 pandemic taught us that washing our surfaces with soap and water is never enough. Getting rid of medicine odors and spills from a floor isn’t enough to avoid virus transmission. The virus could remain alive on a doorknob or a countertop, even if you’ve wiped it clean. The pandemic unveiled the greater need to disinfect for an extra layer of defense. Imagine the coronavirus is a ball of protein with an outer layer of fat. Soap and water only disperse the outer layer. However, an effective disinfectant will breakdown the protein underneath and reduce the risk of infection. This is why even a visibly clean surface needs to be disinfected using EPA-approved disinfectants.

 

More flexible cleaning schedules

As the pandemic advances, our hospitals continue to get overwhelmed. During 2020, the US’s healthcare facilities were far more occupied than any of the preceding years. In most cases, the in-house janitorial staff couldn’t cope. Hospitals neither had the capability nor the expertise to meet the rising sanitary needs on their own. Many of them even ran out of cleaning supplies. Hospitals now have to organize their cleaning schedules in a way that doesn’t disturb the massive influx of ER admissions. A lot had to be replanned and thought over.

 

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