Washing Market Chaos: Sharing Textile Products And Worrying About Hygiene And Safety

Nowadays, when people regard the new medical reform as "the most difficult and expensive to see a doctor" as the focus of discussion, they ignore the health and safety problems of the hospital's public textile products. When people compete to discuss where the best tourist destination is, they can't think of the hotel's white.

It is true that the common textile products such as hospitals, hotels, bathing centers and so on have the characteristics of "serving many people" and "repeatedly using". Their safety and health problems concern everyone's personal interests and deserve high attention.

However, at present, the current situation of safety and hygiene of shared textiles is not satisfactory.

Status quo: the safety of shared textiles is frequently seen in newspapers.

"There are 4 batches of pH which are too high to meet the standard requirements, the highest pH value is 10.2, 4 batches of dry rubbing fastness do not meet the requirements, and 3 batch of acid fastness to perspiration is not up to standard.

In addition, in the 11 batches of bedding checked, 10 product labels did not meet the standard requirements, and 3 products were not labeled with fiber names and contents.

The above is the test result released by Henan textile product quality supervision, inspection and testing center in December 20, 2010.

It is understood that in this sampling inspection, including dream of Yi, Stephen, Su Sheng household textiles and other well-known brands, including the 11 batch of textile products, 10 products of substandard products, the pass rate of products is only 9.1%.

According to Ningbo Daily reported on November 3rd, the city's Quality Supervision Bureau for bedding in public places,

In addition, recently, the Fiber Inspection Institute of Puyang, Henan has more than 50 hospitals and bedclothes in the area.

Investigation: small and medium hospitals, hotels, etc. highlight health and safety risks

"The quality of our disinfection supply room has a direct impact on the quality and effectiveness of medical care in hospitals, and even relates to the safety of patients. Therefore, we are very cautious in the management of health and safety of public textiles in hospitals.

Not only the quality of the quilt, mattress, quilt cover, pillowcase, sick clothing, etc. should be strictly controlled when purchasing, but also must be cleaned promptly and sterilized. Every new patient should be sterilized according to certain procedures in accordance with certain procedures.

Turning to the safety of hospital shared textiles, the staff of the disinfection and supply room of the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University told reporters that the disinfection supply room is an important department for providing sterile items for hospitals. For the washing and disinfection of common textiles in hospitals, according to the more than 3600 washing beds approved by the hospital, the Department has three automatic washing and dewatering machines, of which the largest washing capacity is 100 kilograms.

In addition, the hospital has also purchased a full automatic drying machine, ironing machine, and disinfection cabinet and other facilities.

"These medical sheets, quilts, clothing and so on are all strictly operated in accordance with the central standard workflow such as recovery, classification, cleaning, drying, sterilization, storage and distribution.

How to disinfect the quality of shared textiles is closely related to nosocomial infection and two infectious diseases, which is closely related to the safety of patients. We dare not be careless.

The staff finally said.

Subsequently, the reporter visited the Henan Province People's Hospital, Zheng Daer attached hospital, and Zhengzhou's Sofitel International Hotel, Yuda Palace Hotel and other large public hospitals and guesthouses.

Similar to the situation in the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, these units have specialized laundry rooms and various washing and disinfection equipment. They are equipped with different specifications of washing and disinfecting apparatus according to the washing capacity of the unit scale.

However, in sharp contrast, there are serious health and safety risks in Zhengzhou's small and medium-sized hospitals, beauty salons, clinics, hotels and hostels.

In December 25th, the reporter took the Dongming road in Zhengzhou as the axis, and visited 6 small and medium sized hotels, 4 hostels, 4 small private hospitals, 2 cosmetic and plastic hospitals and 2 bathing centers on both sides of the axis from south to North on Shangcheng Road, Chengbei Road, Shun he road, Jinshui Road, Hongzhuan Road, Hongqi Road and agricultural road.

According to the press survey, only 1 hotels and 2 small and medium-sized hospitals in these 18 units have specialized "washing rooms". The so-called "washing room" also has only one large capacity automatic washing machine, and the sharing of textile washing procedures is relatively simple.

According to the reporter's visit, apart from 3 hotels, 3 private hospitals and cosmetic surgery hospitals, from the appearance to see their bedspreads, quilts and other public textiles are relatively clean, the remaining 10 units can only perceive from their senses that their shared textiles have serious safety and health risks, especially the hostels and bathing centers have serious health and safety problems.

There are three main points: first, the problem of common textile stains is serious; second, the softness of quilts, pillow and so on is poor. Most of them are broken cotton batters and leftovers of fiber products. Third, some of the common textiles have a strong pungent odor.

Cause: washing market chaos is the chief culprit of sharing the safety of textiles.

"Like regular large hospitals, we can clean sheets and quilts for every patient or patient. Our safety and health should be no problem."

At 25 a.m. on 11, the reporter interviewed a private hospital at the intersection of Dongming road and the Yellow River road. According to the relevant receptionist of the hospital, the hospital logistics department has a special place for cleaning medical supplies.

And when the reporter further asked the cleaning procedures and requirements to see the relevant equipment, the receptionist seemed to be at a loss.

"These are disinfectants. Every bedding will be soaked in 84 or peracetic acid disinfectant for half an hour before cleaning. Then wash and dry with this automatic washing machine."

Such a simple disinfection and cleaning procedure is incredible. When the reporter again raised doubts about the hospital's public textiles hygiene and safety, the receptionist initially explained that the soaking of the 84 disinfectant itself was a disinfection process, basically killing the germs.

Later, he further added that the cleaned textiles were further sent to specialized washing centers for uniform disinfection.

Subsequently, the reporter interviewed in a bath center near the village of Chang Zhai.

Reporters found that the bath center of two floors, first floor bathing, two floor accommodation, medium scale, but the whole bath center health status is very unsatisfactory.

"Irregular, irregular, dirty and washed.

Most of our customers are tenants in urban villages. The consumption level is low, bathing 5 yuan, and staying the night is the cheapest 20 yuan per person.

Because of the financial constraints, how can a bath center be equipped with a full set of washing equipment? "Asked about the disinfection and cleaning of the common textiles, the receptionist at the bath center told reporters that the shared textiles of the bath center were entrusted to the external washing centers.

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"There is no certain price standard. We charge a certain fee according to the type of cleaning, stains and requirements of customers, such as bleaching, removing flavour, etc.

"Small profits but quick turnover", our price is quite flexible.

According to the address provided by the bath center, the reporter came to a water washing center in Zhengzhou city village as a client.

According to the staff of the water washing center, in recent two years, with the continuous expansion of the water washing market, the competition between them has become increasingly fierce. Therefore, no matter how large the small single bills are, they will be able to receive money as long as they can earn a little money. The customers are generally hospitals, hotels, guest houses, bathing centers, etc.

"Generally speaking, a customer's list is unified cleaning, but some hospitals and hotels are relatively small in size, so that the objects of cleaning are relatively few, so as long as the color is the same, they are cleaned together, and this is also done in order to save costs."

When the reporter saw that the sheets and quilts were printed in a disinfectant container printed on the hospital logo and printed on a certain guest house, the staff were not only dissatisfied with the reporters' questions, but also indicated that this was their usual practice.

According to the reporter's investigation, the current Zhengzhou washing market is more chaotic, and its specific performance is mainly in three aspects: first, the price is chaotic.

There is no corresponding standard for washing price of common textiles, most of which are priced according to the staff's "visual inspection"; second, the operation is chaotic.

The washing and washing center is too simple for disinfection and washing of common textiles, and does not meet the relevant standards of safety and hygiene. Third, the management is chaotic.

The washing equipment of the water washing center is incomplete, unqualified, and the sanitation condition of the center is poor. There is no perfect central management regulation.

Solution: safety and hygiene standards for common textile products need to be established.

"From the third quarter of this year, the Provincial Bureau of fiber inspection has focused on the supervision and inspection of the service establishments such as hotels, hospitals and bathing centers in the capital of Zhengzhou. The key points of inspection are the quality of textiles, pH value, formaldehyde content, odor, color stains, towels and towels, etc.

From the results of sampling inspection, the pH value and color stains accounted for more than 95% of the unqualified items, and the main reason for this problem is non-standard disinfection and washing.

On the morning of 26, the reporter called the Henan Provincial Bureau of fiber inspection, and the office staff on duty said that the washing Market in Zhengzhou was rather chaotic. Most washing centers used cheap disinfectants and detergents in order to save the cost of operation. In addition, the washing procedures were too simple and the rinsing was not thorough, resulting in a large amount of residual disinfectant and detergents on the textiles, resulting in excessive pH value, unclean stains, and incomplete disinfection, and such public textiles were very harmful to people's health.

"The absence of relevant systems is the key to the problem," the official concluded. "Our irregular spot checks really played an immediate effect, but temporary solutions were not effective.

Therefore, in order to fundamentally change the current situation of the health and safety of common textiles in China, relevant departments of the state urgently need to formulate laws and regulations concerning the safety and hygiene standards of public textiles and standards for washing.