What should I do with the sheets and bedding left behind by someone who died in the hospital? I don't believe it!

People who died in the hospital, leaving sheets and bedding will be collected, and then sent to the cleaning area to wash, the pollution is particularly serious will be incinerated.

After a person's death, medical staff will collect the bedding they used and then disinfect it. After disinfection, these sheets and bedding will continue to be recycled, and for those who are particularly contaminated (patients with serious infectious diseases) the items left behind will be sealed and incinerated as appropriate to prevent the spread of the virus.

Every hospital has a special laundry room with strict requirements for the sterilization of clothing, and the clothing of different patients is handled separately. Whether the patient is seriously ill or just a normal patient, after they leave, the used bed linen will go through a complex disinfection process to ensure that other patients are not infected, with special staff disinfecting every bedding and bed linen.

Hospital laundry standards

1, pick up and drop off clothes are used trolleys, pick up and send clothes before the trolley should be wiped with water or 1% detergent solution; pick up and transport of infectious diseases, and obvious contamination of clothes after the trolley should be 1000mg / L chlorine solution to wipe disinfection.

2, the patient's clothing and medical staff's uniforms must be washed in separate machines or batches. According to the degree of contamination of clothing can be washed separately with a special machine, especially infectious patients clothes should be washed in a special machine, unconditionally should also be washed staff uniforms, then wash the patient's general clothing, contaminated clothing, the last wash infectious patient's clothing.

3, general washing and disinfection of clothing: general clothing refers to no obvious contamination and non-infectious clothing, cotton clothing with 1% detergent solution at a temperature of 70 ℃ or higher (chemical fiber clothing should be 40-45 ℃) in the washing machine for 25min, and then rinsed with water.

4, infectious clothing must be 1-2% detergent solution at 90 ℃ above the wash for 30min or 70 ℃, add 500mg / L of chlorine containing disinfectant laundry detergent solution for 30-60min, and then rinse with clean water.

5, there is obvious blood, pus, stool contamination of clothing, considered infectious clothing. Before washing with hot water, first use cold washing liquid or 1-2% cold alkaline water to wash the blood, pus, stool and other organic matter, the washing liquid will be boiled to disinfect, and then according to the infectious clothing washing and disinfection.

6, the laundry floor (machine) after washing, the application of 90 ℃ above the hot water or disinfectant disinfection.