Hospital germs meet their match in this new ‘deadly’ robot

Dr Mark Stibich, the founder of Xenex germ zapping robots and Dr Julie Stachwiak during a workshop in Naivasha recently. [PHOTO: ANTONY GITONGAI/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Hospitals are the least of places you would expect to get infections. But it does happen, often.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says of every 100 hospitalised patients at any given time, seven in developed and 10 in developing countries, will contract an infection.