A new building of Surgical Ward of Kratie Provincial Referral Hospital (KPRH) was inaugurated in December 2021, and it has been functioned since then. A month later, we found many problems occurred such as: dirty floor, spider nets, uncleaned patient rooms, etc. There are two cleaning staff in the surgical ward, but the building is large and the inpatients change rapidly, so it is difficult to keep the building clean all the time. After seeing the situation, hospital director had meeting with all Surgical Ward staff to discuss the solution and they decided that “Let’s clean the building regularly by our nurses and doctors”

On the first cleaning day, all doctors and nurses of Surgical Ward as well as cleaners and workers of the hospital joined in cleaning all parts of the building. When the nurses and doctors clean the building, patients and their caretakers also joined and started cleaning their bed area. In addition, we heard some positive impressions from Surgical Wards staff such as, “It’s really fun to clean our building” and “We don’t have any opportunities that all staff gather at one time and do something together. It’s good that we can work all together and build more communication between staff in the department through this cleaning activity.”

Since that time, surgical ward has been conducting monthly cleaning day to keep the building clean and provide the good environment for patients.

Recently, the new surgical ward building is very clean and patient and staff are happy to see the changes. The management team of KPRH is recommending other departments to follow Surgical Ward in keeping their buildings clean.

We strongly hope that our activity could be sustained for long time and keep our building clean and hygiene for the patients