Scalable models for realising safe WASH services in HCFs: challenges, successes and pathways to country wide application

Presentation of the session at All systems go Africa symposium, Accra, Ghana from 19-21 October, 2022 on scalable models for realising safe WASH services in HCFs: challenges, successes and pathways to country wide application.

During this session there was a focus on, understanding

1. the impact of the Water and Sanitation for Health Facility Improvement Tool (WASHFIT) on improving WASH services and Infection Prevention and Control in healthcare facilities and
2. how the Clean Clinic Model works to ensure that all health facility improvements (behavioural, managerial, and infrastructure) are the responsibility of the Ministry of Health.

Conveners: IRC Uganda, CRS Global | Location: Stafford Meeting Room
Presenters and panelists: Francois Kangela [Catholic Relief Services (CRS)], Mary Concepta Ayoreka [IRC], Ashinyo Mary Ayram [Ghana Health Service], Hamadoun Dicko [Ministry of Health, Mali], Moses Kabangi [Ministry of Health, Uganda], David Tsetse [Catholic Relief Services (CRS)] |
Chair: Lorretta Roberts [UNICEF] | Primary Language: English/French.