Vastuskiri

Dear Dr Schmiege and Dr Johnston,

Thank you for contacting us. As we have given information previous years, in Estonia it is regulated by legislation that water, sanitation and hygiene in institutional settings need to be provided, no buildings would be accepted to construct or renovate without these elementary needs guaranteed. As we have reported previously that water, sanitation and hygiene is fully covered for at least 30 years, the data comes from Health Board surveillance reports, as drinking water is one of the surveillance items. Drinking water surveillance data is publicly available on Health Board webpage: https://vtiav.sm.ee/index.php/?active_tab_id=JV

Regulation under which surveillance is conducted in schools: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128082013010?leiaKehtiv

Regulation under which surveillance is conducted in health care facilities:

Hospital types requirements - https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/793970?leiaKehtiv

Standard conditions for hospital accommodation - https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/120012011022?leiaKehtiv

Requirements for the premises, equipment and equipment of the family doctor's place of action - https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/116032018004?leiaKehtiv

Requirements for the premises, equipment and equipment required for the provision of specialized medical care outside the hospital - https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/101062016008?leiaKehtiv

As we looked through the Excel sheets provided for our country, we filled in JMP_2024_WinHCF_EST_Estonia file the missing parts and adjusted some of the data and attached the adjusted file to this email.

We have few comments on the data presented in the excel files:

1. 1. In JMP_2024_WinHCF_EST_Estonia file on sheet „ Waste management data“ there is given two tables both with the name for 2017 year, we suppose that the last table is put mistakenly as well 2017 , but is actually ment as 2021 and we filled in that table accordingly.

2. 2. In JMP_2024_ WinS_EST_Estonia file on the sheet „Population“ where , as we understand, should be the number of school age children given for Estonia, the population numbers are much bigger than our overall population alltogether in Estonia (which is apx 1,3 million). This seems unaccurate information given on that sheet or if we understand it wrong, could you please explain to us what is ment behind the numbers given in that table. If they are ment to show something else than the school age children population in Estonia, what exactly is ment with them and if they should mean the number of school age children in Estonia, then they are very wrong and might be mixed with some bigger country population data. We made a comment on the Excel sheet „Population“ and attached the file with our comment to this email as well.

With kind regards,

Kristina Aidla

peaspetsialist

keskkonnatervise osakond

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