Colour-coded bedsheets will help to enhance hygiene

19th of January 2017
Colour-coded bedsheets will help to enhance hygiene

Hospitals in a northern Indian city are replacing their white bed linen with rainbow-coloured alternatives.

Two government-run healthcare institutions in Gurgaon near New Delhi are to colour-code their sheets in a bid to improve cleanliness and hygiene.

"This is a simple and effective way of differentiating between used and fresh linen," said chief medical officer Ramesh Dhankar. "It will be implemented in both government hospitals in the city."

Under the scheme the two hospitals will use violet bedsheets on Monday, indigo on Tuesday, blue on Wednesday, green on Thursday, yellow on Friday, orange on Saturday and peach on Sunday. The new colour scheme will be adopted in all wards across both hospitals.

"Each bed sheet will have a day imprinted on it to ensure that the sheets will not be re-used and will be washed when necessary," said Gurgaon health chief Kanta Goel. "The white sheets are regularly cleaned but the initiative will help us to differentiate between clean and used bedsheets and also to establish an infection-free environment in the hospital."

The two hospitals in the colour-coding trial are the 200-bed Civil Hospital and the 100-bed Sector 10 Civil Hospital. More than 500 bed sheets are currently used in each institution every day. These white bedsheets will be retained but only used in cases of emergency.

 

 

 

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