Newly established global estimate on hygiene reveals the risk of disease spread and infections to patients and health care providers 30 AUGUST 2022 | Geneva, New York – Half of health care facilities worldwide lack basic hygiene services with water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care and at toilets in these
GENEVA, Switzerland Half of the world's healthcare facilities lack basic hygiene services, putting nearly four billion people at greater risk of infection, the United Nations said Tuesday.
These facilities do not have water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care, and in
Half of the world's healthcare facilities lack basic hygiene services, putting nearly four billion people at greater risk of infection, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Only 38 percent of the country’s healthcare facilities had basic hygiene services, according to the latest Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report by WHO and UNICEF.
The latest report indicates that about 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.