Health promoting hospital takes action to promote the health of their patients, their staff, and the population in the community they are located in. Health promoting hospitals are actively attempting to become “healthy organizations”. Health Promoting Hospitals are being implemented since 1988. An international network has developed to promote the wider adoption of this concept in. Imagine having to deliver health services to a population dispersed across dozens of atolls and island groups, covering a distance of up to 5000 kilometres, with slow internet, extremely high operational costs as well as infrequent transport links. This is the reality for many Pacific island countries and areas (PICs) that face unique logistical, geographical, governance and financial. Overview Hospitals and other healthcare facilities play a critical role in national and local responses to emergencies, such as communicable disease epidemics. This guideline document provides information on how these facilities can fulfil this role. Hospitals can use this guide to review their preparedness or to develop and adjust their plans to respond to an epidemic. Improving hospital planning and management is critical because hospitals are at the heart of health systems in many Member States in the Region, both in terms of functions and finances. Current facility-level challenges include weak management, inefficiencies, high costs, and poor clinical governance, quality and safety. Health system level challenges include lack of good service plans. The manual is designed to promote quality surgical care at district (first-referral) level hospitals for patients who cannot be safely transferred to a secondary or tertiary-level hospital. It covers critical aspects of paediatric surgical care, such as fundamentals of surgical practice for the paediatric patient, management of emergencies and paediatric anaesthesia. The guidelines require the hospital to have (1) the capacity to carry out certain essential investigations, such as pulse oximetry, blood glucose, blood smear examinations for malaria parasites, estimation of haemoglobin, packed cell volume and full blood count, blood group and cross-match, and basic microscopy of cerebrospinal fluid and urine. This document provides a regional framework for improving hospital planning and management to enhance healthcare services. Beds, hospital beds (per 10 000 population) Appears in: Hospital bed density | Dementia health and social care facilities: Hospitals | Health service delivery | Visualisations Data Metadata Related indicators The Hospital Safety Index is a tool that is used to assess hospitals’ safety and vulnerabilities, make recommendations on necessary actions, and promote low-cost/high-impact measures for improving safety and strengthening emergency preparedness. The WHO methodology provides a standardized approach for conducting point prevalence surveys on antibiotic use in hospitals to monitor and improve antimicrobial stewardship.