Hospital functions and organization vary according to health-care delivery organizations and each hospital’s unique position in the system. Good management structures ensure coordination among staff, services, infrastructure and supply chains to deliver high-quality care.
Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter. Four major hospitals in Gaza (Kamal Adwan Hospital, Indonesia Hospital, Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics, and European Gaza Hospital) have had to suspend medical ...
This second global report on IPC provides updated evidence on the harm caused to patients and health workers by HAIs and AMR, and presents an updated global analysis of the implementation of IPC programmes at the national and health care facility levels across all WHO regions.
Viet Nam's hospital system consists of a public-private mix, in which the public hospitals play substantial roles in providing health care services to the people. Overall, public hospitals are key drivers of efficiency and healthcare cost escalation.
Excessive glove use contributes significantly to the volume of health care waste. Appropriate glove use and hand hygiene can help minimize this waste. Using gloves when not indicated wastes resources and does not necessarily reduce transmission of germs. An average university hospital generates 1,634 tons of health care waste each year and this number is increasing 2-3% per year (especially ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher.
Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) is a publicly funded hospital in the capital of Malé, Maldives and is the largest healthcare facility in country. Its primary function is to provide high quality tertiary level healthcare services to around 150,000 people living in the capital city and specialist referral services.
PEAT allows a situational analysis of a prehospital system, gap identification, and development of an improvement plan. It is a standardised survey tool for system mapping and identification of gaps to inform development plans. PEAT forms part of a broader WHO collection of tools and resources titled the Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA) toolkit for UHC. The collection aims to ...
r functionalities. “Safe hospital” is a widely used term, but this framework takes into account the critical roles that different types of health facilities play in ensuring a safer health system – including health centres, laboratories, clinics (including those that provide prevention services and health promotion), small and medium ...
The Interagency Integrated Triage Tool (IITT) is a triage tool developed to provide an integrated set of protocols for routine triage of adults and children.
