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Read a passage about the correct and proper method of hand washing and match the picture
with each procedure.
Hand washing

Besides preventing the spread of infections, loss of health, or even death, hand washing will also protect
health workers from infection. When practiced routinely, it also provides a good example to patients, relatives
and others in the eye team. You must remove your watch and your rings because organisms can sit under them,
and thus can make any hand washing ineffective. Once you remove all of the objects, you are ready to wash your
hand: Adapted from:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4675257/

Procedure: Number:
a. Rub back of left hand over right palm and vice versa

b. Rub palm of left hand with fingers or fight hand and vice versa
c. Rub palm to palm with fingers interlaced

d. Rub around right thumb with left palm and vice versa

e. Rub palm to palm
f. Rub backs of fingers on opposing palms with fingers interlocked

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