SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - Registration update

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands - Registration update

University of Geneva Hospitals/Professor Didier Pittet
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As of 28 April 2021, a total of to 24815 hospitals and health-care facilities in 184 countries or areas have registered their commitment to hand hygiene as part of the global campaign – SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. Numbers are not 100% correct due to duplicated submissions of data; number of staff and beds – as submitted by registrants. 

This map of the world helps you see how registrations are progressing and highlights number of health-care facilities registered for SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, adjusted by population per country.

 Fully adjusted estimates based on total number of health care facilities per country are not available and the estimates above may not fully represent the actual health-care facility coverage in each country.

The table below provides an overview of health facility registrations according by WHO region. For breakdown by country, please see the list below. 

 

Breakdown by country

RegionCountry Total
AFRO Algeria 30
 Angola 3
 Benin 34
 Botswana 14
 Burkina Faso 26
 Burundi 13
 Cameroon 32
 Chad 12
 Comoros 1
 Congo 2
 Cote d'Ivoire 3
 Democratic Republic of the Congo 31
 Ethiopia 19
 Gabon 3
 Gambia 1
 Ghana 15
 Guinea 27
 Guinea-Bissau 1
 Kenya 30
 Lesotho 4
 Liberia 25
 Madagascar 11
 Malawi 2
 Mali 4
 Mauritania 1
 Mauritius 4
 Mozambique 1
 Namibia 7
 Nigeria 347
 Rwanda 21
 Sao Tome and Principe 3
 Senegal 81
 Seychelles 2
 Sierra Leone 274
 South Africa 534
 Swaziland 11
 Togo 3
 Uganda 18
 United Republic of Tanzania 11
 Zambia 4
 Zimbabwe 71
AFRO Total  1736
AMRO Antigua and Barbuda 1
 Argentina 392
 Aruba 2
 Bahamas 3
 Barbados 2
 Belize 10
 Bermuda 1
 Bolivia 13
 Brazil 654
 British Virgin Islands 3
 Canada 889
 Cayman Islands 1
 Chile 73
 Colombia 222
 Costa Rica 46
 Cuba 9
 Dominican Republic 14
 Ecuador 82
 El Salvador 22
 Grenada 2
 Guatemala 44
 Guyana 3
 Haiti 2
 Honduras 8
 Jamaica 6
 Mexico 946
 Nicaragua 11
 Panama 12
 Paraguay 16
 Peru 74
 Puerto Rico 11
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4
 Saint Lucia 2
 Suriname 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 5
 Turks and Caicos Islands 1
 United States of America 3228
 Uruguay 105
 Venezuela 12
AMRO Total  6932
EMRO Afghanistan 49
 Bahrain 52
 Djibouti 4
 Egypt 141
 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 1663
 Iraq 11
 Jordan 73
 Kuwait 43
 Lebanon 28
 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 15
 Morocco 27
 Occupied Palestinian Territories 25
 Oman 28
 Pakistan 426
 Qatar 99
 Saudi Arabia 894
 Somalia 7
 Sudan 95
 Syrian Arab Republic 8
 Tunisia 28
 United Arab Emirates 134
 Yemen 4
EMRO Total  3854
EURO Albania 4
 Armenia 4
 Austria 12
 Azerbaijan 1
 Belarus 6
 Belgium 163
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 8
 Bulgaria 18
 Croatia 11
 Cyprus 11
 Czech Republic 42
 Denmark 5
 Estonia 12
 Finland 30
 France 2794
 Georgia 6
 Germany 711
 Greece 34
 Hungary 63
 Iceland 2
 Ireland 150
 Israel 21
 Italy 316
 Kazakhstan 10
 Latvia 8
 Lithuania 8
 Luxembourg 4
 Malta 6
 Netherlands 20
 Norway 56
 Poland 43
 Portugal 152
 Republic of Moldova 3
 Republic of Montenegro 13
 Romania 39
 Russian Federation 14
 San Marino 1
 Serbia 64
 Slovakia 44
 Slovenia 14
 Spain 791
 Sweden 44
 Switzerland 52
 The Former Yugoslav Rep of Macedonia 5
 Turkey 421
 Ukraine 3
 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 889
EURO Total  7128
SEARO Bangladesh 12
 Bhutan 9
 India 908
 Indonesia 110
 Maldives 13
 Myanmar 19
 Nepal 23
 Sri Lanka 31
 Thailand 409
SEARO Total  1534
WPRO Australia 789
 Brunei Darussalam 6
 Cambodia 17
 China 245
 Cook Islands 1
 Fiji 7
 Guam 1
 Japan 62
 Kiribati 1
 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1
 Malaysia 211
 Marshall Islands 2
 Micronesia (Federated States of) 1
 Mongolia 15
 New Caledonia 2
 New Zealand 45
 Papua New Guinea 5
 Philippines 2068
 Republic of Korea 4
 Samoa 1
 Singapore 52
 Solomon Islands 3
 Tonga 2
 Tuvalu 1
 Vanuatu 2
 Viet Nam 87
WPRO Total  3631
Grand Total 24815