Maintaining a proper hygiene is the aspect of a healthy environment in Public hospitals.

Maintaining a proper hygiene is the aspect of a healthy environment in Public hospitals. Nowadays, as we go to Public Hospitals especially in ward areas section, we cannot observe that a proper hygiene is present. It is very rare to see a very clean, free from bad odor, well ventilated room in public

hospital areas. What is the main factor that makes these public hospitals not an ideal place to be confined with? Well, in fact if you are going to ask the public, they would say maintaining hygiene. That’s the first thing that would pop out to our minds when we are ask why these hospitals smell bad or not clean. Yes, indeed, hygiene is a big factor in these hospitals. The public should implement or maintain the self-care activities. What are these activities? These activities are always present in our daily lives and it is part of our daily routine in our lives. Proper hand washing, bathing daily, cutting nails, brushing teeth are just one the examples of these activities. It is important to maintain these because it serves as a foundation on how to maintain cleanliness in our surroundings. If you clean yourself, always clean your area or surrounding too just like the way you maintain cleanliness within you because that’s the only way on how to gain a healthy environment. A well-groomed person plus a clean surrounding would equate to a Healthy environment.

But now, maintaining hygiene in public areas is very rare to the people. That’s the main reason why public hospitals are not considered to be a healthy environment for the ill patients because lacking of hygiene would only tend to slow down the recovery rate of most patients. It’s very common to us to know that hospitals should be clean, well ventilated, free from viral bacteria that can cause epidemic diseases to all the patients in hospitals. As stated by Florence Nightingale, a well known nursing theorist, “A healthy environment of the patient would assist in him or her recovery”. But in the cases of these public hospitals, fast recovery of patients seems not possible.

There is this time that I had a chance to go to these public type hospitals. I wandered there looking for the ward area. As I observed, most of the clients in these hospitals, they rely much on the public health workers regarding their hygiene. The significant others of the patients constitute to the big problems in attaining a healthy environment. Why? Their responsibility to their sick family members like doing a basic hygiene, maintain proper sanitation in their waste or helping the ill member to be well groomed, instead of doing that they passed it to the public nurses. Due to the scarceness of the nurses in public hospitals, they cannot attend all the patients to do some cleaning stuff on their body for the promotion of their health. The family of the ill patients, they just watched and waited for their loved ones to be discharged. But what happen is that they are not helping the patients to promote a faster recovery rate. I observed also that the main reason why ward areas are crowded is due to the significant of others of the patients. For one patient, there were four or more people attending the ill ones.

Due to the over populated in hospitals, proper ventilation, having a big space area in order to circulate fresh air in the room lacks. And also too much people in the room or areas in hospitals would just make the patients irritated. Crowd of people in hospitals contribute much to the bad hygiene in hospitals.

Maintaining a proper hygiene in public areas is very easy as long we implement our self-care activities to our self and to our surroundings. Doing these, we can help the patients or our family sick members to attain a faster recovery rate. Because hygiene is the only cause that would trigger a disease or would make diseases away! Having a healthy environment makes you a healthier one too.