Half of world’s health facilities lack basic hygiene, UN says


A worker cleans in a corridor at the Centre Hospitalier Sud-Francilien hospital in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris, on August 26, 2022. UN says half of the world’s healthcare facilities lack basic hygiene services, putting nearly four billion people at greater risk of infection. – AFP pic, August 30, 2022.

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 today.

These facilities do not have water and soap or alcohol-based hand rub where patients receive care, and in their toilets, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Unicef children’s agency.


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