Lack of toilets and safe water in health-care facilities

Lack of toilets and safe water in health-care facilities

Editorials 210 In March 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) released a report 1 on the status of water and sanitation in health-care facilities from 54 low-and middle-income countries. Data representing 66 000 health facilities show that water was not readily available in about 40%. 1 Over a third of facilities lacked soap for hand washing a...

Evaluation of Success and Failure Factors of the Health Information System (SIB) in Health Care Facilities

Objective: Information systems have been used in healthcare organizations for more than three decades, but successful cases of these systems are usually low; This is especially important in healthcare centers, where human health is at stake. This study aims to determine the success and failure factors of the SIB health system in Torbat Heydariyeh health care centers from the perspective of user...

Improving water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities, Liberia

PROBLEM The lack of proper water and sanitation infrastructures and poor hygiene practices in health-care facilities reduces facilities' preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and decreases the communities' trust in the health services provided. APPROACH To improve water and sanitation infrastructures and hygiene practices, the Liberian health ministry held multistakeholder meetings t...

simulation and experimental studies for prediction mineral scale formation in oil field during mixing of injection and formation water

abstract: mineral scaling in oil and gas production equipment is one of the most important problem that occurs while water injection and it has been recognized to be a major operational problem. the incompatibility between injected and formation waters may result in inorganic scale precipitation in the equipment and reservoir and then reduction of oil production rate and water injection rate. ...

Keeping health workers and facilities safe in war.