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British Decontamination Business Pledges to Help UK Hospices Through COVID-19

The Coronavirus pandemic has had a detrimental impact on businesses and organisations across the country. While some have been able to take a step back and consider how best to ‘covid-secure’ their offering, many hospices and palliative care organisations lack resource and funding, and as a result, have struggled to adapt.

Understanding the health and hygiene imperative that has taken hold across the country, Inivos, UK leader in infection prevention, has launched a charitable initiative to tackle the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen - which causes the COVID-19 virus - in hospices and palliative care organisations.

Organisations caring for adults and children with terminal and life-limiting illness, can apply to ‘Inivos in the Community’ for free-of-charge decontamination of patient areas, treatment rooms and staff personal protective equipment (PPE) under the scheme.

The company is aiming to provide five decontamination processes each month, with applications assessed based on the urgency and type of decontamination required.

Tautvydas Karitonas, Head of Research and Development at Inivos, said of the initiative : “The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that clinical decontamination is not just the responsibility of hospitals.

“Residential care homes, dental surgeries, hospices and end-of-life organisations are all faced with new challenges as they look to prevent viral spread within their facilities. This is particularly challenging for palliative care organisations and hospices, who often rely on public donations and charitable grants to top up their local authority funding.

“By limiting the potential transmission of viral and bacterial infections, we hope to help hospice professionals continue their incredible work without fear of exposure to COVID-19.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Peter Callahan .