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- World Hand Hygiene Day 2025 - World Health Organization (WHO)
In 2025, WHO celebrates 17 years of this global campaign The 2025 SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign day coincides with the need for countries to rapidly consider implementation of the global action plan and monitoring framework on infection prevention and control (IPC) – supported by a guide to implementation – and the need to continue to improve IPC as demonstrated in the latest WHO
- Global report on infection prevention and control 2024
But HAIs are a daily threat in every hospital and clinic, not only during epidemics and pandemics Lack of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care settings not only affects the application of infection prevention and control (IPC) best practices but also equity and dignity among both those providing and receiving care
- Prehospital Toolkit - World Health Organization (WHO)
The Basic Emergency Care: Basic Ambulance Provider (BAP) course is a pre-service training program that aims to equip basic prehospital providers with an understanding of the key components of prehospital systems and the key competencies to provide quality care
- Health system at breaking point as hostilities further intensify in . . .
Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter Four major hospitals in Gaza (Kamal Adwan Hospital, Indonesia Hospital, Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics, and European Gaza Hospital) have had to suspend medical
- COMPREHENSIVE SAFE - World Health Organization (WHO)
1 The scale of damage to health facilities ranges from a single critical hospital to many health facilities In September 2009, floods caused the evacuation of patients and shut-down of critical services in Burkina Faso’s main hospital in the capital Ouagadougou National and local health systems that provide health services for millions of
- Safe management of wastes from health-care activities, 2nd ed.
This handbook – the result of extensive international consultation and collaboration – provides comprehensive guidance on safe, efficient, and environmentally sound methods for the handling and disposal of health-care wastes in normal situations and emergencies Future issues such as climate change and the changing patterns of diseases and their impacts on health-care waste management are
- Interagency Integrated Triage Tool - World Health Organization (WHO)
Acuity-based triage is the standard method of sorting patients in medical settings and can be performed at any point of access to the health care system, including in both pre-hospital ambulance services, busy outpatient clinics and hospitals
- Occupational hazards in the health sector - World Health Organization (WHO)
Occupational hazards in the health sector This e-tool is intended for use by people in charge of occupational health and safety for health workers at the national, subnational and facility levels and for health workers who want to know what WHO and ILO recommend for the protection of their health and safety
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