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Table 3 Location of highly contaminated mobile handwashing stations (mHWS, n = 281) according to hospital area matched with user groups

From: Bacterial contamination of mobile handwashing stations in hospital settings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

End–users (numbers of mHWS)

Hospital areas (total number of mHWS)

Administrative & Support areas

(n = 40)

Public areas

(n = 21)

General patient areas

(n = 127)

Specialized patient areas

(n = 70)

Other patient-related services

(n = 23)

Total

(n = 281)

Non–clinical staff (n = 8)

1 (1)

1 (1)

Visitors only (n = 11)

1

 

1

2

Healthcare workers only (n = 86)

6 (1)

1

6 (2)

17 (7)

3

33 (10)

Patients and healthcare workers (n = 38)

7

4 (2)

2

13 (2)

Patients, visitors and caretakers* (n = 17)

1

4

5

Visitors and healthcare workers* (n = 38)

3

 

5 (2)

1

2

11 (2)

Patients, healthcare workers, visitors and caretakers* (n = 83)

1 (1)

26 (9)

5 (2)

2

34 (12)

Total highly contaminated mHWS

11 (2)

3 (1)

49 (13)

27 (11)

9

99 (27)

*Mixed users (n = 138)

3

2 (1)

35 (11)

6 (2)

4

50 (14)

  1. Highly contaminated mHWS were defined as mHWS of which water and/or soap were contaminated at concentrations > 10,000 Colony Forming Units/ml. Data in the cells represent mHWS, numbers in brackets and italics represent numbers of highly contaminated mHWS with multidrug resistant (MDR) organisms. Mixed users of mHWS (indicated with “*”) refers to mHWS that were used by community-based persons (visitors and caretakers) as well as by healthcare workers and/or patients. For details of hospital areas, see Table 1