According to the World’s healthcare, amenities in Sub-Saharan Africa lag, with only 37% getting hand-washing facilities with soap and water at…
According to the UN, half of the world’s healthcare facilities do not provide basic hygiene services, putting almost four billion individuals at risk of infection.
According to the World Health Organization and the UNICEF kids’ agency, these infrastructures do not have water, soap, or liquor hand rub in which patients seek treatment or in their washrooms.
According to the UN agencies’ Joint Monitoring Programme Report, approximately 3.85 billion individuals use these amenities, increasing the risk of infection. This includes 688 million individuals who seek treatment at facilities with no hygiene amenities at all.
Report on World’s Healthcare System
“Hygiene amenities and practices in healthcare environments are non-negotiable,” said Maria Neira of the World Health Organization. Improving the world’s healthcare system is important for pandemic recovery, protection, and preparedness,” she said.
“Healthcare facility hygiene cannot be ensured without investing heavily in basic amenities like clean water, clean toilets, and properly managed health care waste,” she added.
The report, the newly formed global report, which is based on information from 40 nations, paints a shocking picture of the state of hygiene in health centers.
According to the report, 68 percent of healthcare institutions had hygiene amenities at various levels of healthcare, and 65 percent had washrooms with hand-washing facilities with soap and water. But, hardly 51% had both, indicating that they met the requirements for basic hygiene facilities.
Moreover, only 9% of healthcare centers worldwide have both. “Unless medical professionals do not have access to a sanitation service, patients do not have access to a healthcare facility,” said Kelly Ann Naylor of UNICEF.
Hospitals and clinics that lack safe drinking water and basic hygiene and sanitation facilities constitute a death trap for pregnant women, infants, and kids.
Each year, approximately 670,000 newborn infants die as a result of sepsis. This is a tragedy, made worse by the fact that their deaths could have been avoided.”
According to the report, amenities in Sub-Saharan Africa lag, with only 37% having proper hand-washing infrastructure with soap and water in washrooms. Only 53% of facilities in developing nations had on-site access to a secured water source.
Worldwide, approximately 3% of urban healthcare facilities and 11% of rural healthcare facilities lacked access to a water supply. According to the report, several amenities lacked basic environmental cleaning as well as safe separation and disposal of healthcare waste.
