Domain | Indicator | Definition |
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Water services | Health facilities with an improved water supply within 500 m | Piped, public tap, standpipe, tubewell/borehole, protected dug well, protected spring, rain water. |
Sanitation services | Health facilities with improved toilets | Observed availability of flush/pour flush to piped sewer system or septic tank or pit latrine, pit latrine (ventilated improved pit (VIP) or other) with slab, composting toilet. |
Hand hygiene services | Health facilities with soap and running water/ alcohol-based hand rub available | Observed availability of soap and running water or alcohol-based hand rub |
Standard precautions for infection prevention | Health facilities with: | |
safe final disposal of infectious wastes | Safe final disposal of infectious wastes includes incineration, open burning in protected area, dump without burning in protected area, or remove offsite with protected storage. If method is incineration, incinerator functioning and fuel available. | |
appropriate storage of infectious waste | Observed availability of waste receptacle (pedal bin) with lid and plastic bin liner. | |
safe final disposal of sharps | Safe final disposal of sharps includes incineration, open burning in protected area, dump without burning in protected area, or remove offsite with protected storage. If method is incineration, incinerator functioning and fuel available. | |
appropriate storage of sharps waste | Observed availability of a sharps container | |
guidelines for standard precautions | Observed availability of guidelines for standard precautions anywhere in the facility | |
environmental disinfectant | Observed availability of chlorine-based or other country specific environmental disinfection | |
latex gloves | Observed availability of latex gloves or equivalent non latex gloves | |
disposable of auto-disable syringes | Observed availability of single use syringes (standard disposable or auto-disable) | |
soap and running water/ alcohol-based hand rub | Observed availability of soap and running water or alcohol-based hand rub |