Saving an estimated 8 million lives each year, Didier Pittet is the highly-innovative mastermind behind the medical industry?s most essential and profitable hand hygiene solution, who didn?t earn a dime.
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Matt Colvin, with an overflow stock of cleaning and sanitizing supplies in his garage in Hixson, Tenn
In a crisis there are two types of men ? Matt Colvin, an Amazon merchant who set out with his brother on a 1,300-mile road trip across Tennessee and Kentucky, filling a U-Haul truck with 17,700 of bottles of hand sanitiser and thousands of packs of antibacterial wipes in hopes of profiteering off consumer desperation amidst a worsening pandemic? and Didier Pittet. Professor Didier Pittet is The Man Behind The Medical Industry?s Most Essential Hand Hygiene Solution
Professor Didier Pittet
Born on 20th March 1957 in Geneva, Switzerland, Didier Pittet was the highly-innovative mastermind behind the medical industry?s most essential and profitable hand hygiene solution, who didn?t earn a dime.
Eager to do-away with the risible stipulations of hospitals in the early 1900?s, which required nursing staff to wash their hands up to 20 times per hour, infectious disease expert, Didier Pittet had grown dissatisfied with the time period?s fallible solutions to nosocomial diseases.
Armed with a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Community Health, a Master?...