Global Hygiene Expert Pittet: Hand Hygiene Saves 5 to 8 Million Lives Each Year
“Anyone visiting somebody in a hospital must disinfect their hands,” says the long-standing advisor to the World Health Organization – Pittet to visit Austria on June 26, 2025
“It takes 20 seconds – and in those seconds, you can stop the spread of death.” Epidemiologist Didier Pittet speaks about hand hygiene. Hand hygiene saves 5 to 8 million lives worldwide each year, according to what he describes as “conservative estimates”. Pittet teaches at the Geneva University Hospitals and regularly advises!-->!-->!-->…