19 octobre 2022

Half of health care facilities globally lack basic hygiene services: newly established global estimate on hygiene reveals the risk of disease spread and infections to patients and health care providers

A Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report by WHO and UNICEF: around 3.85 billion people use these facilities, putting them at greater risk of infection, including 688 million people who receive care at facilities with no hygiene services at all.

[…] The newly established global estimate reveals a clearer and more alarming picture of the state of hygiene in health care facilities. Though 68% of health care facilities had hygiene facilities at points of care, and 65% had handwashing facilities with water and soap at toilets, only 51% had both and therefore met the criteria for basic hygiene services. Furthermore, 1 in 11 (9%) of health care facilities globally have neither.

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/wash-documents/wash-in-hcf/jmp-2022-wash-hcf-launch-optimized.pdf?sfvrsn=38e0b3f9_3