{"id":30,"date":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/2026\/05\/08\/handwashing-stations-and-clean-water-access-in-our-centres\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:30:00","slug":"handwashing-stations-and-clean-water-access-in-our-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/2026\/05\/08\/handwashing-stations-and-clean-water-access-in-our-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwashing stations and clean water access in our centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Designed in from the start<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every centre is laid out so that a handwashing station is within a few steps of the entrance, the waiting area and each consulting room. It sounds small, but proximity is what makes a facility get used rather than walked past.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stations are chosen for step-free access and fitted at heights that work for wheelchair users and for children.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keeping them working<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A station that is out of soap is a station that is out of service. Ours are checked on a fixed daily round, and the facilities team logs every check so gaps are visible rather than assumed.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maintenance requests raised by staff go to the same queue as scheduled work, which keeps a broken tap from waiting behind routine jobs.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sharing what we learn<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The layouts and checklists we use are shared with the community partners we work alongside, so a small local clinic does not have to solve the same problems from scratch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean water is the quiet backbone of every care centre we run. Here is how we plan for it, maintain it and keep it available to everyone who visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-facilities","tag-hygiene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/covid-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}