WHO/UNICEF Report Highlights Gaps in Health Facility Sanitation
A new WHO and UNICEF report reveals significant gaps in essential water, sanitation, hygiene and environmental health services in health-care facilities worldwide. Despite notable gains since 2015, only four in ten facilities meet basic sanitation standards and fewer than six in ten achieve basic environmental cleaning standards such patient rooms and wards, operating theatres, examination and treatment areas, toilets and sanitation facilities, leaving patients and health workers exposed to preventable health risks.
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Source: World Health Organization (link opens in a new window)
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- Health Care, WASH
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- global development, hygiene, research, sanitation, water
