Water availability at hospitals in low- and middle-income countries: implications for improving access to safe surgical care

摘要

Introduction: Although two billion people now have access to clean water, many hospitals in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not. Lack of water availability at hospitals hinders safe surgical care. We aimed to review the surgical capacity literature and document the availability of water at health facilities and develop a predictive model of water availability at health facilities globally to inform targeted capacity improvements.