Synopsis of the Seminar:

Fungus Control and Case Study of Fungus Remediation in a Healthcare Facility

Fungus or more particularly moulds are ubiquitous and are found everywhere, whether indoor or outdoor. Due to their lightweight nature, the spores of mould can be spread easily by air. Fungus or moulds belong to the Fungi Kingdom which is different from the plant and animal kingdom. Due to their wide spread nature, moulds pose health risk to human beings particularly the infirmed and newly born babies. It for this reason, that healthcare facilities like hospitals and clinics are sensitive to the presence of moulds within these facilities.
In recent years, hospitals all over the world has given particular attention to this menace and effected measures to the control of moulds within their premises. In Malaysia, the Ministry of Health is no exception and has similarly made attempts to control the invasion of moulds within their premises as well.

As moulds could not be eradicated completely, the course of action that owners of buildings could take is to control its development and take appropriate remediation efforts for those cases which are severely infected. Solving moulds in buildings involve 2 aspects which is engineering and fungal remediation. In engineering, the key factors are the control of humidity and temperature in the indoor environment. Fungal remediation involves the removal, decontamination and treatment process. Both are important to control the development and spreading of moulds.


Synopsis of the Seminar :

Preventing Mold & Fungus in Healthcare facilities

'IAQ problems caused by mold and fungus take a more serious form when they happen in a healthcare facility.  Very often the patients in the hospitals have low resistance to infection and there are strong chances that they pick up infections other than what they came to the hospital to be treated for. This is what has been called ‘Hospital Acquired Infections’ or HAI in short. In past, several hospitals and clinics had to be shut down for several months for de-contamination of buildings to make them safer for patients.
The consultant in-charge of the design the air conditioning system of The Rehabilitation Hospital located at Cheras in city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia wanted to avoid these sorts of troubles for his project and approached InviroTech Systems for RH control methods.  Through some recommendations we managed to control the RH which leads to positive results to overcome fungus problem.  It is the technology which will be presented by Mr. Mohan Dhingra in this seminar.'