SafePoint’s message follows World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines. Children are asked to make sure of these three things each time they have an injection.
Injection safety is a basic building block of healthcare and social development. Without awareness of injection safety, many other fantastic development programmes focusing on literacy, farming, or water conservation cannot make an impact.
1. Always receive an injection with a sterile syringe
How can you tell? To make sure it is clean, see that it comes from a new, unopened packet. Look to see it has not been washed or reused
2. Always use one syringe for
one injection
Make sure that the healthcare worker uses the syringe once on you and not again. Using an ‘auto disable’ (AD) syringe ensures that the needle and syringe are never reused. An AD syringe will disable after a complete injection has been administered. It cannot be refilled, reused or recycled
3. Always dispose of the syringe and needle safely
After an injection the materials should be immediately disposed of by the healthcare worker in a safety box designed for sharp instruments and medical waste. The box can then be incinerated, or disposed of following the manufacturer’s instructions.
The three-point SafePoint message is disseminated through existing networks in community education and healthcare. This takes advantage of established infrastructure, at local NGOs for example, and is an efficient way to add basic healthcare information to other campaigns.
SafePoint is honoured to be supported by partners such as Rotary International, and INCLEN, the International Clinical Epidemiology Network, based in India. We use these frameworks and other local partners as channels to spread the same safe injection message all over the world.
SafePoint distills the message, and provides the tools. Our partners provide the connection to the grass roots: the recipients of the information, and the injections.
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* World Health Organisation (WHO)