Look at your hands. Go ahead. Look very closely.

Bacteria, germs and other microbes are strewn all over them right now. You can’t see them. You can’t feel them. But they are there.

People (including you and me) are transporters. Not in a black-suited, guns blazing, Jason Statham kind of way, but more subtle like a smile-let-me-shake-your-hand way.

Keep that image in mind.

Now, think of hospitals and medical centres. There’s constant shuffling of patients, trudging in and out of rooms. Knowingly or unknowingly, parading with infectious diseases, germs and viruses. Hospital staff striding in carefully paced steps between unsanitised areas. Touching doorknobs. Handling medical instruments. Pressing elevator buttons. Shaking hands and more. Visitors also litter medical centres and clinics. Visiting friends, a relative, maybe saying hello to a friend of a friend.

For every Nurse Betty, Dr. McDreamy or patient X, thousands – even millions – of germs and bacteria are exchanged with none of us even noticing. It’s no surprise healthcare facilities rank among the 50 germiest places in the world!

Don’t get me wrong. Parts of medical centres count as the most sanitary places in the world as well. However, spaces like emergency rooms and waiting areas play audience to diseases, viruses, and bacteria almost every hour.

Luckily, it’s not all doom and gloom. There is a silver lining. All a medical centre has to do to curb down the spread of these diseases is to find reliable cleaners.

The Crucial Areas

Commercial cleaning services or private in-house cleaners know there are key areas and items in medical facilities that require more attention during sanitation and cleaning.

Check them out below:

• Hospital/Medical Linens

Hospital gowns, bed sheets, pillowcases and more are passed around to different patients. Some get cleaned while others are left there for a very, very long time.

Proper cleaning companies or hospital/medical cleaning staff have to pay attention to this. It’s easy to overlook such items but proper hygiene and sanitation is necessary. Medical centres need to wash and disinfect items frequently, especially those in contact with patients.

• Equipment for patient care including instruments used regularly like stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, syringes, items used internally and others, deserve proper sanitation at all costs. Disinfection or disposal is important if you don’t like the idea of having patients taking home somebody else’s disease or bacteria.

• Countertops, patient rooms, or areas where the patient has been accommodated should receive a proper wipe down using a reliable disinfectant. Chairs, desks or tables or items like doorknobs and handles also deserve a major “pat down” so to speak.

Children’s playroom or hospital toys for children should also be disinfected the right way.

• Emergency rooms or trauma centres should be cleaned and sanitised without prompting. Emergency rooms are usually kept sterile to prevent infection from spreading. Rooms like these often play witness to blood, vomit and other unsanitary or unsafe residues like biological or chemical waste. You must be certain that cleaners are trained properly and know the protocols to keep themselves safe as well.

• Finally, waiting areas in medical clinics as well as hospitals also need proper attention. This is an area where every single patient or person that visits the facility will have to go through. Garbage should be collected regularly or several times during the day if necessary.

Just like hiring a reliable builder’s cleaning service during a major construction, it’s important to use professional cleaning staff to maintain sanitation and cleanliness in medical centre facilities like hospitals and clinics.

Luckily, I-Kleen can help you in that department. We offer fully trained personnel that know what they are doing.

They do more than just throw away garbage or sweep the floors; they understand the need for sanitation in crucial areas like medical care facilities. We also pride ourselves for taking care of our staff and we train them to maintain their safety when dealing with hazardous or biological wastes.

I-Kleen only uses environmentally safe yet effective chemicals when cleaning. We sat down with our staff and carefully created cleaning plans to ensure every area that needs to be cleaned is addressed.

Above all, we think about you: our client.

We provide liability insurance including worker’s compensation in case accidents happen.

We are not perfect. But we get the job done. We eliminate germs and bacteria like nobody’s business.