Eighty percent of all health professionals met their hands-on hygiene requirements by 2023.

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Eighty percent of all health professionals met their hands-on hygiene requirements by 2023.

This percentage is similar to 2022, but represents a trend upwards since 2015 (73.1%) when the Portuguese health authorities launched awareness campaigns, says a note from the DGS, on the occasion of World Mothers' Hygiene Day, which is celebrated today, as part of an integrated initiative of the DGS's Infection Prevention and Control Program and Antimicrobial Resistance (PPCIRA). "" In 2020, with the covid-19 pandemic, there has been a signific…