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Dirty operating theatres at Rigshospitalet
TheCopenhagenPost
June 15th, 2015
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Nearly half of the rooms at the country’s largest hospital weren’t clean enough
Rigshospitalet needs to clean up its act, says report (Photo: Henrik Jessen)
Nearly 40 percent of the operating theatres at Rigshospitalet are not clean enough, according to a report by the hospital’s cleanliness watchdog, Rengøringskontrollen.
The cleanliness situation is considered potentially dangerous as the numbers of multidrug-resistant bacteria in hospitals have increased over the last few years.
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Lars Buhl, the deputy head of the service centre at Rigshospitalet, acknowledged that there have been problems.
“It is true that there has been a challenge with the highest levels of cleanliness, known as K5,” Buhl told BT.
“At that level, it takes very little to have a room rejected by cleanliness control.”
High standards necessary
Buhl said that something as small as a spot on the wall, which had been wiped but didn’t dry properly, could cause a room to be rejected.
“But it is right that the standards are high,” said Buhl.
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