Outbreaker Solution's CSC door-push plates to be installed at select ETS transit stations

Outbreaker Solutions conducts a six-month pilot project to assess CSC push plates in high-traffic areas. In the transit test project, push-plates will be installed outside doors in 10 LRT stations, with the first already mounted by the doors inside Bay/Enterprise Square station in downtown Edmonton. 

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Upwards of 200,000 patients admitted to health-care facilities in Canada are affected by antimicrobial-resistant infections each year. MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) alone was estimated to cost the Canadian health-care system between $54 and $110 million in 2005.

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But health-care-associated infections only make up a small portion of a bigger problem, Brayden Whitlock, Director of research at Outbreaker Solutions states: “Most of the time someone gets an infection, it is not from a hospital.” Outbreaker’s most recent study finds, antimicrobial-resistant infections are expected to cost US$60 to $100 trillion and 300 million lives by 2050.

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Looking forward, Outbreaker will focus on commercializing its product and forming partnerships in research, sales and distribution. Target markets will be organizations like the Edmonton Transit System, with high-traffic touch surfaces in public areas. These could include offices, schools, and health-care systems, where microbial infections are such a critical problem.

 

 

 

 

For more information, contact:

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Matt Hodgson

Co-founder

Outbreaker Solutions

Email: matt.hodgson@outbreaker.ca