How clean are hospitals? Is it safe?

   Parents always tell their child's don't touch the things in the hospital, there's a lot of bacteria and virus, but doesn't the hospital staff disinfect it? How much bacterial are around our life? and how effective is the cleaning works? Let's continue and see what is disinfection.   Disinfectants are part of the multibarrier protection strategy against health care related infections. As most surfaces in clinics and hospitals are considered noncritical, their treatment with disinfectants is still controversial. Though normal soaps are useful to clean surfaces and compatible with the cleaning in heath centers, it is highly recommended to use higher levels of disinfectants to clean these.
Normal soaps and water are not as effective for decontamination as, for example, phenolic disinfectants. Furthermore mops will easily get dirty and contaminate more than they are supposed to clean. Use of non reusable mops will reduce this issue. As some bacteria can survive long periods of time on noncritical surfaces as floors and bed rails, these should be properly cleaned to stop the spreading of those microorganisms.
   Nowadays most of the studies concluded that, specially in health care centers, the properly disinfection of surfaces, even when those are noncritical, is very important to avoid cross infections. There are even studies underway of bacteria killing surfaces (like  hexyl-polyvinylpyridine) that will really help reducing the existence of microorganisms on them.
   Resuming: any regular hospital can assure the disinfection of all their surfaces. There are cleaning protocols and the staff is normally well prepared. Furthermore there are gubernamental societies that will periodically control the effectiveness of these protocols, so everything remains secure.