Health care facilities are essential for reducing disease. Yet without basic water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management and cleaning (WASH) services to prevent and control infections, these places of healing can instead contribute to more disease, prolonged hospital stays and preventable deaths.
According to the latest WHO/UNICEF JMP report, half of health care facilities around the world lack basic hygiene services (access to soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub at both points of care and at toilets) and 9 per cent have no hygiene services at all.
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It is estimated that 3.85 billion people lack a basic hygiene service at their health care facility, including 688 million who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all. Furthermore, 1.7 billion people lack a basic water service at their health care facility, including 857 million people with no water service at all.
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Contaminated hands and environments play a significant role in the transmission of pathogens in health care facilities and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Increasing access to hygiene facilities, and improving health care waste management and environmental cleaning are all crucial for preventing and controlling infection, as well as for providing quality care.
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Mark Hereward
Chief Data Officer
Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring
UNICEF
Kelly Ann Naylor
Director
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) & Climate, Environment, Energy, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED)
UNICEF
According to the latest WHO/UNICEF JMP report, half of health care facilities around the world lack basic hygiene services (access to soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub at both points of care and at toilets) and 9 per cent have no hygiene services at all.
© UNICEF/UN0646426/Das
It is estimated that 3.85 billion people lack a basic hygiene service at their health care facility, including 688 million who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all. Furthermore, 1.7 billion people lack a basic water service at their health care facility, including 857 million people with no water service at all.
Access the report
Access the data
Contaminated hands and environments play a significant role in the transmission of pathogens in health care facilities and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Increasing access to hygiene facilities, and improving health care waste management and environmental cleaning are all crucial for preventing and controlling infection, as well as for providing quality care.
Please share this email with your networks as appropriate.
Mark Hereward
Chief Data Officer
Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring
UNICEF
Kelly Ann Naylor
Director
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) & Climate, Environment, Energy, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED)
UNICEF
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