Bangladesh has signed a pledge for patients' safety as a member state of WHO to promote the highest standards of practice and behaviour to reduce the risk of healthcare associated infections in the healthcare centers.

According to the WHO report, every year the treatment and care for millions of patient world wide is complicated by infections acquired during healthcare that makes some patients more seriously ill than they would otherwise have been.

The 55th World Health Assembly adopted in 2002 a resolution urging the countries to pay closest possible attention to the problem of patient safety. Inline with that the world Alliance for Patient safety launched in 2004. WHO and its technical partners have developed strategies to address this global challenge. The WHO guidelines on Hand Hygiene have been developed by technical experts in the field of infection control and prevention. The Guidelines are a major part of the Global Patient Safety Challenge.

The video-link programme would foster and sustain collaboration with the research institutions, training schools, educational centers, universities and health care settings of other WHO member states to ensure full utilisation of knowledge and experiences in the field of health care associated infections.

The video-link sites showed global support for the WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care by launching a global hand hygiene demonstration.

Bangladesh will be one of the piloting sites for WHO South East Asia Region.