Hospital Hygiene and Safety

Abstract

Introduction: Hospital hygiene and safety is a prerequisite to the reduction of occupational accidents and diseases; its favor’s health promotion and workplace safety as well. Hygiene and safety of both healthcare workforce andhospitalized patients involves a modern administration issue; at the same time, it is an apropos social issue. Hospitals used to have specific structure and organization since antiquity, such as the Asclepieia, to ensure the seamless care of the workforce to hospitalized patients of the time and restore their health [1,2]. This policy continued into the next centuries and especially during the Byzantine period, during which the organization and function of hospitals ensured the safe healthcare of hospitalized patients and their health restoration, while it consisted a standard for generations to come, even for recent generations [3,4]. The tradition continued during the Ottoman period in Greece; an exemplary example is Vostanio Hospital in Lesvos [5,6].