Saviors in Green

People go abroad and visit hospitals. They also watch medical hospital soaps on television. One of the chic things experienced is those dashing hospital personnel going about in scrub suits. Some of them are tempted to do such a thing in their own hospitals back home or at home, as the case may be. It is also more comfortable to wear scrub suits at work, because of higher environmental temperatures, and air conditioners being allowed only for ICUs, operation theaters, and offices of only officers who matter. It is also a nuisance when the people outside the hospital and at home smell hospital odors on one when one works in one's street clothes and goes home wearing the same clothes. That does not happen if one wears a scrub suit at work. It is troublesome to bring one's own scrub suit from home, take it back, get it washed and laundered and then use it again. The hospital does not provide scrub suits for this purpose. So the best way out is to use OT clothes for this purpose. For personnel working in OTs every day, it is very convenient. Those who work in OT only twice a week or so, it is possible at least on those two days. As a result, we see those men and women in green in our hospital wards, labs, and corridors frequently. I wonder if they don't realize that they have to use these OT clothes only in the OTs, and if they go out in those clothes they pick up microorganisms which they carry back to the OTs and contaminate them, promoting surgical wound infections. The doctors and nurses are trained to know this. The other employees have to be told about this by their superior officers, i.e. The doctors and nurses. Either they know and ignore it, or they don't know for reasons unknown, and continue to move around wearing green OT clothes. In the meantime, the unsuspecting public is thrilled to see these saviors in green going about their business, the saviors are happy to bask in the admiration received, and life goes on.