Achieving quality care through universal access to water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management, and electricity services in all healthcare facilities

The Framework aims to provide guidance on delivering safe and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), healthcare waste management, and reliable electricity in healthcare facilities to ensure quality care for all. It has been developed through a global consultative process and includes data and recommendations from recent WHO/UNICEF reports on WASH, waste, and electricity in healthcare facilities. The Framework also serves as an operational roadmap for implementing the 2023 United Nations General Assembly resolution on these issues.

The target audiences for the Framework include health leaders, program managers, policymakers, WASH, waste, and energy leaders and technical experts, development partners and finance institutions, gender equality, disability and social inclusion experts, climate experts, and civil society. The Framework addresses the WASH, waste, and electricity elements of the WHO comprehensive approach to building safe, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable healthcare facilities.

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