Statistics from UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Healthcare Facilities: Global baseline report 2019
https://data.unicef.org/resources/wash-in-health-care-facilities/?mc_cid=f5b26e1fed&mc_eid=1956e675a7)
show the commercial potential for AWGs in the healthcare facility market in two market segments:
An estimated 896 million people use health care facilities with no
water service and 1.5 billion use facilities with no
sanitation service. It is likely that many more people
are served by health care facilities lacking hand hygiene
facilities and safe waste management.
Today's post presents data about healthcare facilities with no water service (Table 6, below).
https://data.unicef.org/resources/wash-in-health-care-facilities/?mc_cid=f5b26e1fed&mc_eid=1956e675a7)
show the commercial potential for AWGs in the healthcare facility market in two market segments:
- Water services for healthcare facilities
- Handwashing facilities for healthcare facilities
An estimated 896 million people use health care facilities with no
water service and 1.5 billion use facilities with no
sanitation service. It is likely that many more people
are served by health care facilities lacking hand hygiene
facilities and safe waste management.
Today's post presents data about healthcare facilities with no water service (Table 6, below).
Table 6: Eighteen countries, areas, or territories have no water service in at least 20% of their healthcare facilities. This 2019 data is for 79 of 165 countries in the database. For 86 countries there is no data for no water service in healthcare facilities. This table was condensed by the writer from a larger table. Data source: Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2020: five years into the SDGs. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Data gaps are indicated by a dash (-).
