WHO & UNICEF hosted a technical webinar on the 5th of December 2023 on Healthcare Waste & Green Technologies. Find the slides here!
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DRAFT Global Framework for Action (2024-2030)-Water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in all health care facilities achieves essential quality health services
Open for EXTERNAL REVIEW
This document serves to guide global and national efforts and key collaborative actions to deliver water, sanitation, hygiene, waste (WASH), and electricity services in all healthcare facilities. It focuses on WASH and electricity services and ought to be implemented within broader health and climate efforts, including those focused on low carbon and climate resilient health care facilities and systems, “fit for purpose hospitals”, and more broadly efforts that support primary health care and delivery of high-quality, universal, essential health care.
WHO and UNICEF are now seeking your feedback on the Global Framework for Action and it’s implementation. You are invited to either fill out this short survey or download and provide in track changes comments and send back in WORD to Arabella Hayter (haytera@who.int) and Nadia Abdalla (abdallan@who.in). The deadline for the survey and direct input is 6 November 2023. Find the Global Framework for Action here!
Presentation of the Post Summit webinar on 6th September
Join this WHO and UNICEF webinar on Wednesday 6th September at 2pm CET for the Post summit webinar. The webinar builds on the Global Summit on WASH and Waste in health care facilities: Realising safe and sustainable infrastructure for improved quality of care, that took place in June 2023 in Amman, Jordan. Find the presentation here!
Global Summit Meeting Report-Amman, Jordan
From 13-15 June 2023, WHO and UNICEF, with the Government of Jordan, co-hosted a global summit on WASH, waste and electricity in health care facilities in Amman, Jordan. The summit was the first in-person global meeting on WASH in HCF to take place in four years, following the last global meeting held in Zambia in 2019. The meeting marked the end of the reporting period for the 2019 World Health Assembly Resolution and the launch of the global progress report on WASH in health care facilities. Find the meeting report here!