I will say it again $0.60 cents per person per year is not too much to ask. Investing in WASH in investing in health
"I hope that more of us can join this cause and make sure no healthcare facility operates without water, sanitation and hygiene."
As the first week of #WHA76 draws to a close, @anniesheria shares her reflections on discussions and her hopes for a future with #Health4All
Only $0.60 per person per year will ensure access on the world's least developed countries with a $16 dollar return on investment for hand hygiene alone. #healthministers this is not to much to ask.
“Healthcare workers are right, we need water to ensure safety in the healthcare facilities”
~ Hon. Dieminatou Sangare, Minister of Health and Social Development, Mali
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"If it is not safe, it is not care" @DrTedros speaking to the #pss2023 delegation. "Half of #healthcare facilities globally do not have good hygiene".
This is not safe, this is not care
Every #healthcare facility needs #WASH to deliver safe care to patients.
Invest in #WASH
Inadequate #water #sanitation & #hygiene practices and infrastructure was a key #safetygap during the #covid19 pandemic. Dirty hospitals do not promote patient safety, water, sanitation and hygiene do. Prioritize them in all patient safety programmes!!#PSS2023 #hygiene4health
⏰ The #PatientSafety Summit kicks off in Switzerland next week.
Here's why it's important, and what we'll be calling for.
#PSS2023 #Hygiene4Health #WASHinHCF
ALT A doctor, wearing a white lab coat and a face mask, uses a stethoscope to check the breathing and airways of an older male patient, who is sitting on a bed. Text: What is patient safety? Patient safety is about how healthcare workers protect their patients from errors, injuries and accidents, for example, being given the wrong medicine or picking up an infection.
ALT A woman, wearing a pink sari, washes her hands over a sink. Text: What is the Patient Safety Summit? The Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety will bring together ministers of health and patient safety experts. Using lessons from COVID-19, they will discuss ways to improve patient safety worldwide.
ALT A woman, wearing a blue dress and purple scarf, washes her hands in a sink. Text: Why is it important? One in 10 patients in developing countries are harmed by picking up infections when they seek healthcare. Infections that could have been prevented if staff and patients could access adequate water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
ALT Text: That's why we are urging all decision makers at the summit to prioritise these essentials to reduce patient harm.
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@DidierPittet has made very clear the critical role of #handhygiene to #patientsafety at the #pss2023 Global Patient Safety Summit. There is indeed no patient safety without #WASH #hygiene4health @wateraid
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@MazikoMatemvu thank you for representing so well at #WHS2022!! The message is clear!! The health system needs to decolonise!! Communities need to be respectfully and meaningfully engaged and young people must have seats at all the tables along the chain of decision making!!
As @tedros continues to highlight this major gap national governments and donors must act with speed and urgency to support health systems especially in countries under development to transform their systems to deliver care.
At #WHS2022 @DrTedros calls on countries "to make a paradigm shift towards promoting health and preventing disease".
Investing in water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities and at home helps protect communities from disease at modest costs.
#Hygiene4Health
ALT A man, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivers a speech at the World Health Summit.
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Great lessons from Singapore Minister of Health Ong Ye Kung @ #WHS2022 “ We have not been investing in health care but in sick care” Investing in #WASH is investing in health. At a fraction of the cost #G7 can help LDCs make universal WASH in healthcare a reality by 2030
Based on our analysis, $355m of that amount a year
should come from the least-developed countries and $600m a year is needed from donors.
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yesterday @DrTedros laid bare the brutal truth. “By and large the world's health systems do not deliver health care, they deliver sick care... Many countries spend huge sums treating diseases that could be prevented at the fraction of the cost” This must stop now! #WHS2022 #WASH
♀️ Female patients and their caregivers are more likely to get life-threatening infections in unhygienic healthcare facilities during pregnancy, childbirth and menstruation.
#WHS2022
According to @DrTedros we need new global approaches that prioritise promoting health and preventing diseases rather than only treating diseases. #water #sanitation #hygiene are a core to promoting health promotion reorienting health systems to promote health care #WHS2022
Handwashing with soap:
❌ prevents & controls infectious diseases
❌ stops the rise of antibiotic resistance
Everyone, everywhere could access this essential if governments, donors, the private sector and communities take action.
#GlobalHandwashingDay #WorldHealthSummit
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Yet it will only take $600million a year from donors and $355 from national governments to end this problem in the world's least developed countries #G7 and #G20 must not ignore this.
Handwashing with soap:
❌ prevents & controls infectious diseases
❌ stops the rise of antibiotic resistance
Everyone, everywhere could access this essential if governments, donors, the private sector and communities take action.
#GlobalHandwashingDay #WorldHealthSummit
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It won't break the bank - but but inaction already is. #WHS2022 In making the choice for health - don't forget the fundamental of water, sanitation and hygiene. No health care facility is safe without them
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The @WorldBank #FIF must have an inclusive structure: civil society, communities & LMICs must be involved at every stage of design and governance; they must have equal power through Board seats and votes.
All should contribute, all should decide and all should benefit
The new @WorldBank #FIF excludes those most at risk of future pandemic threats in favour of largely high-income nations. This goes against the lessons of the #COVID19 response - the people on the frontline are the experts. With no inclusive governance, the FIF is built to fail