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Cost-effective ways to keep air ands urfaces clean

Maintaining stringent infection control in healthcare facilities is clearly a high priority at all times, but with the COVID-19 pandemic having contributed to over 125,000 deaths in the UK alone – has assumed even greater importance.

Maintaining stringent infection control in hospitals, care homes, and other healthcare facilities, is clearly a high priority at all times for all those whose work entails accommodating, treating, and caring for, patients, but in the past year, with the COVID-19 pandemic having rendered many thousands unwell, and contributed to the death of over 125,000 people in the UK alone, preventing bacteria and viruses spreading has assumed even greater importance. Here, Paul Ashton, UK Hospital Sales director at sluice room product specialist, DDC Dolphin, focuses on two recent product developments from the company which aim to simplify the task for estates, clinical, infection control, and other personnel

DDC Dolphin is already wellknown in infection prevention and control circles for its high quality range of sluice room machinery, including medical pulp macerators, bedpan washer-disinfectors, and incontinence product macerators. However, with the ever higher focus on infection prevention over the past 12 months, we have also been keen to promote our range of UVMATIC and UVMATIC Plus advanced air purification systems, which utilise a combination of UV and ozone technology to destroy bacteria in air. The former is designed for mains operation, with flexible mounting options, while the latter is a portable device, which is light and easy to carry, and can be used either for one-off cleaning, or as part of a regular maintenance regime. We have also seen an enthusiastic response to our HYGENEX Recoat antimicrobial coating system, which is designed for application to a wide range of commonly touched surfaces, such as door handles and touchscreens, can be applied to almost all substrates, and has been tested against a range of bacteria and viruses – including SARS-CoV-2, and proven to inhibit their growth, and, where they are present, to eliminate them.

Multi-technology air purifiers

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