Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, has joined the nationwide ‘Go Green Stay FIT’ campaign with leading medical technology company BD, pledging to promote highest patient safety standards in diabetes management, including safe injection practices and safe disposal of insulin syringes and needles.
The ‘Go Green Stay FIT Campaign’, initiated in January this year by the Forum for Injection Technique (FIT), has also created a World Record by generating 5391 pledges by healthcare professionals who vowed to adhere to the best practices in diabetes management and safe waste disposal.
Kokilaben Dirubhai Ambani (KDA) Hospital and BD India plan to collaborate on solutions to achieve and sustain high quality and consistency of patient care throughout the insulin injecting continuum within the hospital. The program is focused on customised healthcare professional training and education directed at upgrading insulin injecting practices to highest safety standards. The objective is to help patients initiating insulin achieve improved clinical outcomes with a more comfortable injection experience.
As a part of the initiative, eminent experts came together to promote the green recommendations on injection techniques laid out by FIT earlier this year. Highlighting the need to adopt and promote safe practices, the experts discussed issues of injection and infusion technique; correct needle length for all ages and body types; need for education and training of care providers; and safety and prevention of sharp injuries to healthcare workers.
As per the FIT2.0 India recommendations adopted this year, biomedical diabetes care-related wastes need to recycled, not reused to prevent spread of infections and needle injuries among waste handlers and end-users, and promote conservation and efficiency. Apart from safe disposal, the recommendations include detailed guidelines on appropriate injection technique, correct length of needles, and need for rotation of injection site. Improper use, or reuse, of injection devices may lead to undesirable consequences including pain with bleeding and bruising, breaking off and lodging under the skin, contamination, dosage inaccuracy and complications such as lipohypertrophy.