Infection prevention and patient safety improvement in developing countries thanks to sodium hypochlorite production devices

Introduction The technology developed by Antenna Technologies has allowed reaching some promising results. In Guinea Conakry, The sales of Sodium Hypochlorite (SH) flasks in a limited zone (target population for 2014: 7’218’882) represent a calculated coverage ratio of 27,5% (2014: 3’390’637 flasks sold at very low price to lowest income group). In Burkina Faso, the excellent results obtained by a pilot study under the auspices of the Health Ministry suggests that a scaling-up phase with the ambition to equip 63 health districts and 9 regional hospitals should be undertaken in a close future.