International. The control of hospital-acquired infections is one of the most important and delicate aspects of the management of facilities in health centers, the work of Facility Managers must go hand in hand with the infection control staff to do the best possible job in preventing infections inside the hospital.
This is explained by the magazine facilitiesnet.com in a recent article, in which it highlights that Facility Managers can contribute especially with the management of air filtration inside the building, cleaning and management of biological waste.
In the first point, the management of air flow is critical, as explained by professionals working in the health sector not allowing the exit of air from the room with patients in isolation, due to highly contagious diseases, and not allowing the entry of external air flow for patients with immunosuppression, because they can be easily infected, is key.
Although most of these systems are automated to make sure that this is the case, it is very important to closely monitor the situation to ensure that human errors do not affect these parameters, in the same way a timely and periodic maintenance can make the difference when detecting any anomaly.
