Israeli tech and Britain’s NHS
Viewers of Sky News this weekend have been treated to a synopsis of a thrilling pilot study designed to beat the super bug, MRSA, which has infested Britain’s hositals for years.
A Birmingham hospital has switched door handles, taps and other surfaces to copper. The idea, “patented” by ancient Egyptians and other ancient civilisations, has been known to combat severe infections.
Where have these people been? If only they had spoken previously to Jeff Gabbay, CEO of Cupron, a small Israeli start up based in Bet Shemesh, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Cupron has a series of copper-added products, ranging from clothing to cosmetics, that dramatically fight foot fungi, reduce wrinkles and destroy numerous bacteria.
Yes – Cupron has a package for hospital sheets, where diseases gather and hide. Nurses clean beds by shaking the sheets. In other words, with great irony, nurses are responsible for spreading the germs. Cupron’s copper-treated sheets significantly reduce that possibility.
Cupron is a typically small company. If you went inside their modest offices, you would never believe that this outfit can tackle MRSA, AIDS and many other horrors of the present decade.
Jeff loves to tell how he met with the NHS a couple of years back, but he could not get them to understand what he had to offer. I guess they are more now more interested in changing taps and tops in hundreds of hospitals than just simply purchasing some new bed linen.
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None of the US large mills would work with these guys. They claim to have an office in NC but is nothing more than a fasade…
Interesting news but this may not be sufficient to reduce patients getting infected in our hospitals. Nurses as you mention are the most important person contributing to the spread. It’s not their fault but the way they are trained and the way they have been allowed to function.
Doctors ignored strict aseptic technique because modern hospitals looked clean. Now the NHS is trying to clean the hospitals spending Billions but has not produced good result.
We must have strict guidelines and follow aseptic technique before we can be comfortable.
In response to Avraham J, I know that Cupron have a factory and not an office in North Carolina. I can only assume that the 3,500 sq meters of floor space is producing fabrics for the “bed, bath and beyond” range of products.
To Michael Horesh: There are multiple reasons as to why the large US mills would not work with them…you can run your own an inquiry and find out.