To protect patients from infection by ensuring maintenance of high standards of cleanliness and hygiene in all Government hospitals and medical colleges in the State, Haryana Government has decided that bedsheets of different colours would be used for all days of the week.
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Thursday said that directions to this effect have been issued to all Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) in the State.
He said that Director General, Health Services (DGHS) would decide the colour for each specific day and communicate these to the CMOs. Notices specifying which colour would be used on a particular day would be displayed in each hospital, he added.
Vij said that during inspection of different hospitals in the State, complaints were received that bedsheets in Government hospitals were not being changed regularly, which led to greater risk of infection. Thus, decision in this regard has been taken, he added.